Back to the salt mines...

So, my weekend didn't turn out anywhere near as productive as I would have liked. I only ended up doing a little bit of work on the database, nowhere near as much as I was hoping. In fact, most of what I did do, I found out during testing didn't work properly anyway, so I wound up scrapping most of it. I've spent most of the morning since I've been here at work trying to get somewhat caught up on some of the ideas I've had for it, and I think it's coming along pretty well, but I don't know that I'm going to have a very good product to demo for the boss later in the day. I'm kind of lying low right at the moment, hoping that he gets sidetracked with other things and decides not to ask me how the thing is going until maybe tomorrow morning. We'll see how that all goes. I'm still very nervous about the whole situation here...

We did get the recycling taken care of, and I cleaned out Kala's water dish and litter box, as well as planting her some new grass, since the old grass she had was starting to turn brown and nasty. I think having the little dish of cat grass for her keeps her from wanting to get out quite so much, and it's not all that difficult to take care of. I've just been too lazy to replant it for a couple of weeks. Garbage was taken out, Dremel stuff was all picked up and put away, and I shredded some more of my old papers and such that I don't need any more. I also did managed to get the upstairs closet cleaned out and got some of the stuff that's just heaped around up there put into a tote and out of the way, at least. Not that I don't still have a ton of shit to get put away, but at least it's a start. I got a fair amount of laundry done, but there's still more sitting in the washer and dryer that I need to get taken care of. And, of course, the shelves for the girlfriend's room are still not put up. Damn it.

We went to Olive Garden for dinner last night after she got back from the bridal shower she was attending. I guess from her description that the shower itself was something of a comedy of errors, which isn't all that great. But I guess the bride had a nice enough time, which is the general intent of the whole thing, so that's good. We had a pretty nice dinner, and then came home and pretty much vegetated for the rest of the evening. I did try to get some work done on the database, but I kept getting distracted. I really am beginning to feel like I have some kind of ADD or something of that nature, because I can rarely seem to keep my mind on one thing until I get it completed. In any case, we wound up watching the Oscars and some of her home decorating and design type shows, and then we went to bed.

The girlfriend had to go to work at the same time that I did this morning, so I did my best to get up early. I did only hit the snooze once, and then I meandered out and did the usual ablutions. I probably should have taken a shower this morning, but I didn't figure that I had the time. I should take one when I get home this evening, though, at any rate. I got myself ready pretty quickly, got the little beastie fed, got the laptop put away, and then pretty much just sat around for a little bit because I didn't really feel like getting to work early. Finally, though, it was off to work, and here I've been since, just plugging away at code and queries and the like. It's getting closer, but is it close enough?...