Humping the day

Ever wake up feeling out of tune? That would be me today. Nothing spectacular, or even grumpifying. Just... out of kilter. Stuff like first shirt attempt had a spot, hit a curb on the right turn into my office park, can't find my scarf (even though I went back and double checked on it at Applebees), etc, etc. Nothing awful, nothing terminal, just off-putting. I'm here with my Holiday Cheer Ritazza coffee trying to sync up with the day.

Last night was lovely. Just the kind of night I wanted. Isn't it nice when you don't want anything too unusual or uber-fancy and then the time just hits the nail on the head? It's like a present, because I really didn't have to do anything and things just happened. Did class with jezebelpussycat, then paxindustria joined us and we did dinner at Applebees, and I invited new_man who at first said he wasn't coming and then came anyway. He opted not to spend the night, but that was OK, since I was feeling just enough hermit-ish that I didn't necessarily long for an over-night guest, seeing him was quite pleasurable enough. And it was the silly little stuff that made the evening so nice - good class, lots of stuff clicking into place, good company at dinner, lots of laughing, lots of topics of conversation, not having to drive at all, and as such, having company for the drive to and from the restaraunt. Little, trivial no-big-deal stuff, but just the right flavor for my mood.

( Indian class thinking )

Who'da thunk it?

The customer's geeks like my interface spec. They had low-level details to thrash through, but on the whole the response "yep, we can do it". They are smart, communicative and cooperative. I like talking to geeks *sighs wistfully*.

This was the interface spec I wrote based on verbal descriptions of the original product, never having touched it until the Monday.

I must be a good guesser.

We tried to capture a video of me in Spiffy Video Conference Center. Such a video would:
A - be the most boring video ever recorded (what's more boring than a discussion on interface specs? why, a recorded discussion of interface specs, of course. Now you can press Pause when you fall into a coma.
B - allow me to discover exactly how many times I can play with my hair during the course of thinking.
C - irritate myself with my studdering and blank looks forever.
However, it doesn't seem to work on my Windows machine... so I think maybe it's not in a regular DVD format...