"Waiting"

Today I was still waiting on any news from the staffing service. You know minor details like where I would be showing up, what I would be bringing with me and some form of dress code perhaps. Also, I expected I would have to get a urine test for the standard drug testing. So in all likelihood, everything else being equal so to speak, I think my first day will likely be on Monday. Since that is the first of the month it would really make sense in any case.

Other than that all I really did was go for a walk since the weather is apparently shifting to some form of pleasent in place of the consistently-miserable it has been. For whatever reason I just haven't been able to sleep the last few nights even though I feel tired and I am in bed. I just lay there seemingly wide awake for seemingly hours I didn't feel that bad when I woke up though so I guess I did get some not terrible amount of sleep.Actually the lack of sleeping probably has something to do with a lack of exercise or even menial, seemingly irrelevant stretches and jumping jacks or whatever. I think even five minutes of something like that per day would probably help quite a bit.

So I went on the walk trying to make myself tired. Did a little tiny bit of jogging but not enough to really get myself sweating profusely like when I go on that five-mile thing.

After the walk I did drive down to my Dad's house to have dinner with him, his wife as my Grandma. After dinner we played a card game called baseball. It's sort of strange game but I actually won the second series of hands so I guess either I'm getting or I just happen to be lucky for that particular shuffle. Yes that is about as dull as that sounded. Good dinner though.

On the way home I decided to stop by at a Borders and look at the books. I wasn't actually planning on buying anything, just browsing the books and studying the DOM book I had brought with me. But instead and seemingly without realizing it I started reading this VBScript Programmer's reference book and before I knew it was really time to go home. So I took the book up to buy it and mentioned a coupon I had recieved in my email and the guy ran it through at the 33% off price like nothing. Geuess I should have mentioned that to the border's people when I bought the two DOM books a few nights ago.

Well two things about this: one is apparently I have picked up a former habbit of buying things I may or mayn not need or ever utilize I thought I had finally kicked. It was PC games for a while there, now hopefully not but I think i think this habit has shifted over to PC books. Still PC-something eh?

The second thing is apparently VBScript as a programming language is pretty much dead. There's few to no books in any of the stores and the books that are available are usually pretty old. The one I bought today was from 2007 and I think it is about the most recent available. But I rationalized it since I really do need a handy up-in-front-of-me type reference for the innards of the language. It's enough to find stuff on the internet but sometimes it's to know what I need to do just not exactly what the thing is called that I need to find. So the book fits the bill.

It's too bad everyone including Microsoft is moving away from VBScript but it is a pretty easy language. And my rationalization for learning this language as opposed to say JavaScript which can do all the same stuff for what I ami trying to do right now is that VBScript does have some passing similarities to VB and by extension VBA so presumably I would have a slightly easier time being able to read VB/VBA code and also VBScript seems like it is the favorite of existing administrators and it would certainly be nice to be able to look at someone else's code and decipher/read it with relative ease.

I did come up with some cool ideas for the HTA I'm apparently hatching right now and I made some notes in the HTA code in the form of comments describing those ideas. Not sure yet I'll be able to really implement all the stuff I keep thinking of. but considering how easy it apparently is to spend a lot of time and how much I enjoy working on this HTA I will likely make some kind of progress.

Since I'm trying to go to bed earlier these days in prep for the new job I am going to bed now. I'm surprised this post lasted as long as it did.