February 2nd, 2008
Drizzle Time
Library day. I researched a lot into new Wordpress themes, Google Checkout, and a few other technical things. I’ll probably do more tomorrow. I am having too many ideas to be able to research them all in one afternoon. I am impatient to get some of these projects started, but it’s probably a good thing I am being forced to take them slowly. One of the projects is a fairly straightforward commercial website with “things” that are “for sale,” and the other is a much more complex site involving many Web 2.0 features and interactivity. Both, I hope, will eventually be able to feed off one another to some extent. I see no reason that either of them need to wait until I get home to actually start, but getting them set up and ready to roll will be difficult and slow going with such limited access to the Net.
I worked on that stuff until almost three o’clock, when my eyes started to cross. I’m doing all this work at the library, and the bad part about that is that you can’t just get up and get a coffee when you want. Unfortunately, there isn’t even anywhere to eat near the library, so leaving for lunch and coming back is pretty darned inconvenient. So when it’s time to get up, it’s time to go. It was raining outside, so I tried to drag it out as long as could. It was bright and sunny when I left the house this morning, so it never occurred to me to bring an umbrella. It eventually became obvious that it wasn’t going to clear up, so I left the library.
It wasn’t raining hard, just a light sprinkle. I’ve never seen it rain here like it does in Ohio. In Ohio we get downpours of serious rain; all it does here is sprinkle. It may go on all day and night, but it never rains hard. Maybe things will be different in the Spring, but so far the rain has really never been too much that I wouldn’t go out in it. Still, I wasn’t in the mood to walk all the way to CoCo Ichiban in the drizzle, so I hopped on the bus and went home. I dropped off the computer and then rode to Happy Town. Rain or no rain, there was nothing to eat at the apartment. I picked up McDinner and the usual groceries and headed back. Yeah, it was wet, but that’s why I have a coat and hat. Funny that I am nowhere near as willing to get soaked in the States. I am constantly surprised at the stuff I am willing to put up with and just accept when there is simply no other choice.
The rest of the evening was spent listening to pod casts. Marc came in and we talked about his plans for the future. He may fly to Los Angeles and ride back to Dayton with a friend he knows there. He thinks he’ll save money that way, but from what I saw while researching Hawaii, I don’t think it seems to matter much where in the States you go from here, it isn’t going to make much more than $50 or so difference. But I’m not going to criticize him for considering going somewhere other than Dayton directly from here. He’s no closer than I am to having a job lined up when he returns.
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