Well, not really a beer night, but still. I just happened to have two 50% coupons for Popeye in Ryogoku from the last time I went there with Quattro, and they were valid until yesterday. You can’t let such an opportunity go to waste, so after waking up past 3pm (long live sleep deprivation) and working out for a few hours at the local gym, I decided to go and use the coupons.
Friday of hate
Things just stop being fun when you get a headache at 2pm and then you’re at work until 1am. Yes that’s a 14-hour shift there for me, starting at 10am. Gotta love it how the anime industry isn’t overworking people at all. And how most of the Japanese in the trade are actually content with how things are and don’t consider it weird at all that they work over 250 hours a month without getting paid for overtime.
Foreseeable future returns might make such an investment of time and stress worth it, but the obvious lack thereof (looking at my seniors) makes me doubt stuff. You know, on the “it might be better somewhere else” line.
Minoh Beer Osaru IPA
I picked this beer for the simple reasons that it looked funky with the beer-drinking monkey on the label, and that I like to have an IPA on stock at all times (just in case).
Echigo Stout
Another beer from the Echigo lineup, I had quite the expectations of this stout.
6-1
First of all, I’d like to send out a huge “fuck you” to the devs who came up with the idea of forcing us to take subs to a map full of ASW ships.
The monthly quest for 6-1 definitely isn’t worth it either. Its reward is a few hundred ammo topped with an Irako morale booster, but despite sortieing there almost constantly with five level 99 subs, I still couldn’t get the three S victories at the boss required for the quest. I guess it’s a more realistic monthly in the sense that it actually takes a month to clear if you refuse to bucket your subs (because at level 99 a full repair is over 3 hours, which is more than I’d like to wait in general).
I wanted to clear it for September, but I couldn’t get it done in the three days available. Maybe next time. I hate to have quests hanging there in the open.
(H)ello
The internet’s been loud about this new social network called Ello. At this point it’s invitation only, so I didn’t have high hopes of (ever) getting in when I signed up, but then I got invited by a tweetmate.
Scale
I spent Sunday afternoon planning a system. It’s a social network-kind of thing, and I was a bit caught off guard by its scale. It seemed so simple and doable at first, but the further I progressed the larger the whole started to seem.
Then again, this is no new experience. I remember days when I’d naively believe I could write a complete blog engine in a week, and then just procrastinate instead. The procrastination part was the result of feeling lost due to the utter lack of planning, meaning I had to improvise fundamental structures that should’ve been laid down first when I was already in the higher spheres.
With the project I was working on it’s more about the sheer scale of it all, and that I don’t really know how to write it all down in a form that can show all the connections between various objects, how said objects relate to data and how the front-end is generated from them.
To put it short: it’s fun. But it’s not easy.
Back to the beginnings
I think it was about five years since I’d last visited TUFS – until today, that is. I have vague memories of visiting the campus once years ago, but I didn’t get to meet up with anyone at that time. A few months ago then came the usual email from the JLC newsletter telling me about the annual alumni meeting.
Experiment
The worst thing in not having any free time whatsoever is that I don’t have neither the opportunity nor the energy to experiment. And experimenting is always fun. Just giving a try to some obscure crypto-chat client or programming language IDE can keep me going through the night, even if I’ll never even touch them ever again (as it so often happens).
