I went on a media purge and binge today. Traded in a few used books I was done reading and three CDs I no longer want.

Picked up a few new things to replace the discarded ones. For books, I acquired Neil Gaiman‘s “American Gods” which I’ve heard good things about.

I’ve been on a bit of a Japanese culture kick the last couple of days. Yesterday, I bought two Utada Hikaru singles on Amazon MP3. Walter posted a few interesting J-Pop/J-Rock music videos yesterday as well. Today, I bought three manga volumes of Cowboy Bebop, two Japanese beverages (Calpico, Pocari Sweat), Pocky, and Hello Panda (“biscuits with chocolate cream”).

The local Hollywood Video was having a $3.99 DVD sale so I picked up The Namesake, The Departed, and Jet Li’s Fearless. I got Elizabethtown and Buffy The Vampire Slayer (the movie) at Half Price Books.

I’m trying to hide from the darkness lurking in the corners, but I can’t avoid it. Instead of turning on the lights, I turn on the HDTV, stereo, and PS3 to watch something besides my life. Or I play games on the Wii.

Categories: Life
Tags: distractions, shopping

As things come, so things go.

Work has been well. I’m adjusting to my new role and enjoying the change of environment immensely. Instead of worrying about the drudgery and inanity of the day-to-day, instead I make progress on projects that go somewhere and have an influence over the direction of my work.

I’m learning how to plan and prepare. In some of these projects, I’ve put in lots of time and consideration as this is not just for fun, but it’s my living and because many people will be affected based on the quality of the work I do.

In the beginning, I blogged. This blog has existed in one incarnation or another for the past six years. Initially, I hosted it on my Dell Dimension w/ Pentium 3 700mhz processor and ~128MB of RAM. When I went to sleep, I turned off my blog. When I woke up, I turned it on.

Now, the sites I work on day to day are alive 24/7. If they go down, my phone starts buzzing to let me know.

So I watch, learn, code, test, research, produce, and go.

What’ve you been doing?

Categories: Life, Work
Tags: blogging, webhosting