Margin Writing
The frenzied traffic has died down which, suprisingly, has caused my writing style to relax back to its former state. Recent change: the sidebar now supplies you with summaries of what has been happening here. You got it, you can be gone for up to one month and simply click to see what has changed. Will PHP wonders never cease? It was a challenge because imagexhibition is made up of one mySQL database holding picture information, and another for each picture. Each picture has a key that references the gallery id of another table, this latter table holds the information about each gallery. This avoids redundancy in the tables (streamlining by avoiding duplication), however it certainly makes some of the PHP retrieval code a little convoluted. Better there than in the database. Anyways, in order to pull out the information about what galleries have been changed and when, I had to pass two arrays through three mySQL queries. It all stemmed from the fundamental problem that the gallery table stores the date of creation of the gallery and not the date of the last time a picture within it was updated; which is how I wanted it to be. Therefore, the way in which I originally orchestrated the tables to interact forced me to (1) work backwards from the age of the pictures, (2) get them to find the gallery (or galleries, as the case may be), and then (3) load the pictures back from that gallery. Three steps total. I’d show you some of the code, but I haven’t really tested and implemented the CSS and PHP regular expressions for properly displaying source code.
So now you know.
That first physics test I was talking about? Yes, it went well. I didn’t study much. Which was the right amount. Naturally, the work will increase, but physics is not a worry. Life has me much more concerned than school. I took two showers today. My hair developed a bit of a frizz after the second one; I tried to go easy on the shampoo because hair doesn’t play well with a lot of shampoo, but the cleanings were just too close together. Unfortunate, I know. Note to self: most people probably don’t get that joke. My first dental internship is this Thursday, I am a little nervous. I would have liked to get in at the pediatric dental in Minnetonka, but that simply didn’t work out. Either way, I can’t believe it’s really working, really coming together.
Searching all my days just to find you
I’m not sure who I’m looking for
I’ll know it
When I see you
Until then, I’ll hide in my bedroom
Staying up all night just to write
A love song for no one
That was John Mayer, now Kellie Coffey is singing. Why did I turn this on? When did I even get this song? I don’t remember anymore. I can guess why, but I can’t remember. Maybe it’s better that way. Maybe it’s better for me to just forget. Forgetting sure is more difficult than moving on. Maybe I’ll know when I am past. Maybe I’ll understand someday. Maybe I have enjoyed George Winston - Summer - Track 15 for all these years so it could get me through now. Maybe I should stop thinking and start sleeping. This is the earliest I will go to bed in … well let’s not get into that. The server clock is off and I haven’t fixed it, but you’ll notice that it’s about an hour fast (which accounts for how late this update looks). I’ll get around to correcting that.
Guitar is going well, I have a couple of songs under my belt (if you can call them songs) and my chording and calusses have gotten stronger and tougher. I am learning my scales by playing along to songs; it is very effective. Thus far, I have tuned the guitar completely by ear, but I think I tuned a half-step sharp. That too, needs correcting. I have been playing way more piano, and my right hand is getting fast again. The left hand’s dexterity has been increased by the guitar playing. My elbow has healed. Monday, Wednesday, Fridays are still long. My room is cozier, cleanier, and more homey than ever. It’s a sanctuary amongst madness. I am wearing my class ring more now. I don’t know why, I think it gives me something to do with my hands in class. There’s a roll of ISO 200 at home with my name on it; the Canon is calling to me. I found this one bible quote a while ago; I will add it here sometime in the near future. I have an incredible story about English that is as much a testament to luck and stupidity as it is to work to tell for those who would listen. On an unrelated note, the copy writing for my article in Writing in the Margins will be done by the beginning of March. Oh, and we are bringing up the full system one of these weekends and utterly and completely removing the people from the room below me. For those of you who think that I am running to hyperbole, you haven’t seen the picture of this thing. That’s the update of my current activities to the best of my ability: my life in a nutshell, a log file, neatly packaged and tied up with a CSS ribbon for your enjoyment, my future, and someone’s voyeuristic entertainment.
I got asked if I was a gymnast again today.