It's started to get really cold here for the first time this season. Layers of ice on the windshield. News about bad roads in the mountains. The feeling of winter. My feet are cold.

Thursday evening marks the premiere of Tru Calling on Fox.

This morning, I woke up bright and early to journey to Boulder. The Mission: See Howard Dean speak in person, and be there to cheer him on.

The topic of Buddhist class tonight: Suffering.

I write this rambling as my kernel recompiles yet again.

Tonight, I journied to Boulder, where I attended the Shambhala Buddhism class. (Always public, but never static, except when you're still in sitting meditation, but even then, each participant is a separate instance; oh nevermind.)

Well, after some mussing around with all the goop I've been adding and changing, I managed to get this site to again pass w3c validation, at least on a cursory level. (i.e. I checked the main site, plus a couple of random ramblings (haha, bad pun), but not every page that might ever appear.)

Slightly new look. After sufficient tweaking, I've decided I like it at this stage. But as always, this ship is considered a work in progress.

A few minutes ago, I awoke from a nap in a very f--d up mental state. Dreams are not always a good thing. Sometimes, the good dreams can be worse than the nightmares.

Most of the media attention so far has focused on what an outrageously violent movie this is. While, yes, it is gory, and there are lots of severed limbs, squirting firehose blood, and creative maimings and killings, this movie is not what I would consider a disturbing one.

Educational. Disturbing. Unnerving. A documented research project designed to help better understand the psychological effects of prison conditions. The Stanford Prison Experiment.

Well, after that little abortion of a rambling I typed here earlier, I made haste out the door, jumped in the car, and headed in the direction of downtown Denver. The traffic was worse than I had hoped, I hit lots of red lights, and got unlucky with finding a parking spot quickly. By the time I had parked several blocks away, it was 22:10. So much for getting in before the no cover cutoff.

I was thinking about going clubbing this evening, but ultimately didn't. The deciding factor ended up being my foot. I went lovely twilight jog, which was great in every regard, except that somehow, I ended up with a big nasty blister on the bottom of my right sole. It makes it hurt to walk, much less dance. And what's the fun of going to a club if you can't dance? (I'm not the type to go and do nothing but sit and drink beer the whole evening.)

A bunch of new code changes have just gone down the pipe. Among them, a threaded commenting system. Now, when you want to say something online in reaction to something said here, there's yet another place to do it! (As if there weren't enough options already.)

Job hunting. Somebody's gotta do it. I guess that would be me.

Today in the car, as I was listening to BPI, they played an old staple, it doesn't get (quite) as much airplay these days, but you still hear it every now and then. White Zombie. Thunderkiss 65. Down memory lane we go...

Logins. Fun. Did most of the coding last night. Added bits of polish, and a few little features tonight. (Gotta give people some reason to use it, right?) More to be done. Like user profiles, nested comments, and other stuff. I think the UI could still use a few tweaks too.

Ho hum. Cookie cutter plot. Cookie cutter characters. The sequel potential is more than obvious. In fact, when the credits rolled, it didn't feel like I had watched a complete movie. Maybe the first 2 acts of one. Continuity errors and unresolved plot points abound.

Did I get drunk last night? No. Did I have a couple beers? Yes. (I generally limit myself to 2 if I'm going to have to drive anywhere afterwards. Maayyybe 3.)

This is the overall summary so I don't forget later on. I'll probably delve into greater detail on various subjects later on. Then again, maybe I won't. :)

Well, despite the overall lack of content about it here so far, Megafest 2.1 happened more or less as planned. Yanthor, Anya, Humblik, Nemo, Jaeger, Kiesa, and I were the participants. It was excellent and fun, and there will be content from me about it. But first, I wanted to crank out the final chapter of the wedding epic while I was still feeling at least somewhat inspired to do so.

[This is Part 12 in the multi-part epic describing the wedding I attended at the beginning of August 2002. Previous episodes: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11]