The resolution and other stuff

• Ok, so the resolution has now hold for more than two weeks. I have to admit that although this makes me nicer to other people, it doesn't make me any nicer to myself: it is too stressful to be nice and polite with people that are not the same way with you, that neglect their duties or that are there outright to create problems for you. Maybe I should have picked an easier thing to do. . .even dieting seems an easier feat right now ;)

• The deadlines for the proposals loom by and somehow that means that my computers have started to act funky again. I should be more forgiving though: for sure I am putting much pressure on the computing powers and memories of the poor things, so I guess it should come as a smaller wonder to me that they start acting funny. Yesterday for example, my Word processor started quitting continuously and unexpectedly every time I would touch the menu bar (including open or save commands!). I had to remove the whole office and reinstall. Which didn't fix word for whatever reason, BUT as a side effect started deleting random letters from screen. And I literally mean from the screen, as in desktop, internet browser, etc. My name for example showed up as "aii". I had to wake up this morning at 3am to figure out a possible source for the disaster: believe it not it was a temporary connection to an auxiliary screen for half an hour yesterday morning. I came to the office this morning at 7am, ran my 3am solution code and now it is working ;)

• Wow, sunrise above midtown. Pays out to be in the office early. Although I bet I'll feel the lack of proper sleep last night (of course I didn't fall asleep again after the 3am eureka moment!) right after lunch in my class :)