Rainy Tuesday
I am sitting in bed with cushions behind my back, listening to the rain. It’s a good place to be.
Work is going well. Today I am debugging and re-configuring some web services that will go live soon. Tomorrow I’ll go over to another customer and install an upgraded Python/XML/SQL Server app.
Common errors in English. Via Dane Carlsen
Feeling Moral. Trusting your feelings sounds good - but what does it mean? Via Times Shadow
The main character in one of my favorite novels says: ‘I spend most of my time happy, sad or bored. I know I can get rid of the happiness if I try really hard - the rest I am stuck with.’
Dhalgren, by Samuel R Delany
Of course, everyone else in the novel thinks the main character leads an interesting life. And sometimes he is even flattered by that.
So what about me? Well, I prefer happiness to being interesting. But I am not bored very often. 
Forgot about the cleaning lady today. She knows me by now and wasn’t surprised.
So I decided to work elsewhere a few hours and walked over to Aila’s place. It’s empty right now and has the connections I need (I set them up myself once). The customer never noticed: I am working from the same machine and answer the same phone.
On the way, I bought several early-seventies thrillers from a bookstand. Sleazy covers and authors who mass-produced long series about private eyes and secret agents… the very same ones I used to buy as as a kid who had just learned to read.
Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, secret agent OSS 117, taught me to be particular about what brand of champagne I asked for. I was 8 at the time but never forgot that.
I am home again, in a very clean apartment. Night is falling. Deadline tomorrow morning, but it’s under control… a few more hours and I’ll make that one.