0.125 = 08/08/08 != 08-08-08 = -8

Happy 08/08/08!!!!

That's what I told several people yesterday. What a day!!!!! It was VERY singular in at least two or three ways.

It's hard to describe such turmoiling thoughts and feelings in a linear, grammatical fashion. But anyway, here goes:

I'll only describe the highlights of the day, since the description of my whole day could very well strip me of any and all sleeping time I still have available tonight.

1. I invited a coworker over to a hike to Barton Creek Greenbelt in the morning (in about 6 hours actually, so I BETTER get some sleep!!) I'm happy she's excited to go - I am too! We're becoming nice friends - I like that :) (She's also double-jointed and has these WOW-ishly long, flexible fingers!)
   
2. I finished the first part of a web UI interface for a light picker! This will only make sense to those who have somehow interacted with the Reddwerks lights, but the point is that now, to test the lights, people don't have to actually push the buttons when they're testing - now they can simply click their mouse on graphically on the screen, and BLINK, it's as if the light was pushed. I honestly can't believe no one in the company did this before - it was relatively simple. Anyway, I'm thinking of making changes and improving this interface to make it as accurate and as helpful as possible, and these incoming thoughts are so many and so strong that they're preventing me from falling asleep. Which comes into conflict with my previous highlight, since I have to get up early!!!!!
3. Luis v. A. contacted me!!! Yes, he did!!!! And he... and he... and he's invited me over to CMU to meet professors and to listen to inauguration lectures and to meet him and everything! It's REALLY COOL!!!!!!! OHHHHH IT'S SOME AWESOME NEWS!!!!!!!! It was stressing to answer his emails - I was SO EXCITED!!! I even called Pedro and told him all about it and was laughing and laughing and telling him out in the parking lot... it was SO COOL!!!! :D I'm going to be there from the 27th to the 30th, it seems. HOW COOL IS THAT??!?!?!?!?

So, what these three things together do to me is the following: conflict. I'm like... "IT'S AWESOME!! I'll go meet Luis, just after the WSI Go-Live, and maybe I'll even have time to go visit my family in Chicago, just days before Isabel leaves!!! It would be perfect!!!! Oh wait, I have to go to sleep", and I try to go to sleep, and while doing so I think "oh and if the buttons look like this, I could do this, and I could do that, and it would look really pretty, and... oh but wait! I have to get up early!", and I lay down, and I still think "and each button would have a different onclick event, but they would also need an input for picked and requested quantity, where should I put these? Should they be global or should I fit them into the cell? Oh wait, I have to fall asleep! Oh...", and so on. It was after a lot of time that I finally decided that maybe writing a blog entry while laying on the floor would be tiring enough on my eyes, mind, and arms for me to finally fall asleep. It doesn't seem to have worked so far, oh, but wait... my eyelids did just close a bit just a few moments ago. That's a good sign. Good.

So I guess I'll fall asleep now. I have to make sure to have my cellphone near my ears so that I wake up at exactly the time my alarm is set to ring at. To be woken up so suddenly that I won't have time to snooze it while resnoozing back myself. Anyway...

I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I JUST CAN'T HIDE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I DON'T WANNA LOSE CONTROL BUT I THINK I LIKE IT!!!!!!!!

NIGHT!!