Oy

Today I spent 9 and 1/2 hours within a few hundred yards of the Ford dealership, waiting for the privilege of paying $220 for them to fix my transmission but *not have enough time to get to my brakes, and rescheduling for another day.
Most of the day wasted through their incompetence and my own lack of foresight; from now on I am going with my temperament, and planning for a worst case scenario.

This is *so* insignificant...

Today I discovered that in PHP you can include and array value in a string without concatenation of any kind. You just have to use brackets. So instead of:
echo “Blablabla ” . $array[‘key’] . “ blablabla”;

You have:
echo “Blablabla {$array[‘key’]} blabla”;

You'd think I would have known that already. It will definitely make MySQL queries simpler, but concatenating just feels so much *cleaner* somehow.
I also learned how to properly sort multidimensional arrays, which is convenient, as I tend to be an array fiend.

Ahem. Anyway...

A Sudden Realization

I have lived in my apartment for more than six months, and I have not once used my cheese grater…to grate cheese or anything else.
Not once.

Because I'm sure you wanted to know...

You scored as Capt. Mal Reynolds. The Captain. You are the captain of the ship, so the crew are your responsibility. You just want to do the job, get paid and keep flying. Why is that always so hard? Capt. Mal Reynolds 81% Simon Tam 75% The Operative 75% River Tam 63% Inara Serra 63% Shepherd Derrial Book 63% Kaylee (Kaywinnet Lee) Frye 56% Zoe Alleyne Washburne 44% Hoban 'Wash' Washburne 44% Jayne Cobb 25% Which Serenity character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

I actually took the Firefly quiz once before and ended up as Simon, but didn't save the results. I didn't consciously change any answers, so I must have been right on the edge.

Sorry. That's all I've got right now. Too busy and tired to talk about how busy and tired I am. That's what you might call ironic.

This is Me Breaking the Ice. See?

One of the difficult things in blogging, at least for me, is that if you are away for a while you feel the need, when you come back, to say something Meaningful, or in some way make up for or cover the time you spent in parts unknown. So this hypothetical return starts to swell to "Van Halen Reunion Tour with David Lee Roth" type proportions, and it just seems like a heck of a lot of work, and you put it off, and it ends up in the perpetual possibility of tomorrow.
So...
This is me saying absolutely nothing of consequence, just to get the ball rolling. From here we'll just wing it.

So Hi. Sorry I've been away. How are you?

Much Ado About Nothing

Sorry I am a bit behind the times in posting this; I've been up to my proverbial eyeballs (which are just slightly higher and to the left of my normal eyeballs) in life for the past few weeks.

Ahem.

I am in a play this summer. Right now, actually (well, I mean, not right at this precise moment; I mean we have commenced performances for the season). Specifically, Heritage Theatre's production of Wm. Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. I have a smaller part (a member of the watch...lots of stage time, but not so much dialogue), so don't necessarily come on my account, but it is a pretty solid production. Tickets are a little steep--$18 for "adults" but only $8 for students--so it may also depend on your academic situation or the performance of your mutual funds.

We actually opened last Thursday, so I apologize profusely for being so late in my invitations, and also for being a bit out of circulation for a little while now.

Performance dates are as follows:
Fri. July 14, 8pm
Sun. July 16, 3pm (half price!)
Sat July 22, 8pm
Thurs. July 27, 8pm
Sat. August 5, 8pm
Thur. August 10, 8pm
(no touring dates. Grand Rapids only. Sorry, non-Michigan friends)

More information at the Heritage Website; or, of course, you could post a comment or drop me a line.

Grace be with you all.

A short conversation with God

Me: What would you have me do?
God: Speak the truth.

Not quite so vague a response as it sounds, because to me it carries some specific implications. God's words to me, though often few and simple, tend to be like little prisms, exploding colors and multifaceted images all over the place.