Allergies

TL;DR: A dirty house will make you sick.

I caught a cold because I'm allergic to cats. Keep in mind that I own four cats.

Tuesday Emily had surgery for her BAHA implant, I hadn't vacuumed since then because I was busy doing other things. It only took till Thursday before my sinuses started acting up. Friday morning all the drainage had given me a full blown cold. I vacuumed this morning - eh I don't care about this post anymore.

Significant Query

Today I will define a term I made up:

Significant Query
A significant query is a string of search terms that return the result you're looking for on the first page of results.

Significant queries are the results of strong Google-fu, which is the art of knowing how to search for what you're looking for.


Example:
Earlier today I was looking for this image as a reference to something:
(NSFW Warning)
http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/532218/

As of this post, searching for "takamachi_nanoha" on danbooru returns 189 pages of results, and "takamachi_nanoha yuri" returns 20 pages.

However, once I figured out how to spell cunnilingus, searching for "cunnilingus takamachi_nanoha" returns exactly 1 page and my goal is easily seen.
http://danbooru.donmai.us/post?tags=cunnilingus+takamachi_nanoha&commit=Search

Only a Plank Between One and Perdition

When caring for others it is important to upkeep yourself as well.

I nearly passed out in the hospital today, as relief that Emily's surgery went well caused the adrenaline to leave my body. My body promptly realized that my sugar meter had run out and it was time to shut down.

Mia DeAngelo

I'd like to introduce you to Mia, a character from a story I'm working on. Having given Toi a summary, she fell in love with it and wanted to do the character designs.





Mia is one of three protagonists; the story follows Mia's performances as a professional actress in classical theatre. After a disasterous previous year, she and her best friend Coriander work to pull their playhouse out of its financial troubles. In the meantime, they find themselves falling for the new girl, Sable.

Writing Mia has been fun, Emily called her an imp, and I think in certain ways it fits for the first act.

This image is pretty suggestive, so there's an accompanying image of Sable.





Toi and I haven't finished Coriander yet, but I'll show it when Toi and I get his design worked out.

Epic

The project I mentioned in my last post is about to go to production.

There a single error during QA that wasn't a data issue and thus not my arena: A header had the wrong font color.

I feel like a badass.

Updates

Lately I've been working on some legacy code from a contractor. It's my job to update the security on this and increase performance where I can. It's taken me six weeks.

At least one person who worked on this at the contractor knew what they were doing, at least one person did not. I detect about 3 flavors of code.

Something I run into a lot is this:

If (Condition)
   Do A
   Do B
Else
   Do A
   Do C
Endif

Which is mostly harmless, but combined with all the other little irritations I've come to hate the anonymous programmer who came before me. So I will curse them with the strongest curse I know:

Anonymous Programmer, I wish that you will soon become competent, realize the error of you ways, and be forced to maintain all of your old code for the rest of your life.

Happy to report

I am happy to report that I am not the source of my own problems.

This doesn't seem to have reduced my problems any, as others seem intent on providing.

Then again, maybe this is the natural resistance one faces when moving forward.

Wait, does that mean that by moving forward, pushing against my boundaries, I'm still the source of my own problems?

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