The sun is coming up

I got the Eagles' CD playing in the background. God some of these songs suck. Yeah yeah, granted they also had some songs that can be considered in the running for "Greatest of all time" like 'Hotel California' and 'Life in the Fastlane'.

I think Hotel California's guitar solo is up there for my favorite of all time for sure. It's just a solo you can almost sing along with note for note. Perfect for late night air guitar sessions at home or in the shower. Yes you heard me!!! Shower! That's not the water sound, that's the sound of the crowd lovin' me baby! Yeah! hehe.

OK, that's sad.

I'm going a little crazy. Hours upon hours of staring at code these past few days has gotten me a litle stir crazy and a little cross-eyed. A dangerous combination. Minor carpal tunnel too. UGH.

Today started with a visit to the office of a graphic designer I really respect. Eric Woo's been doing graphic design here in Hawaii for over 20 years. Here I am starting off where he was 20 years ago. He's been nice enough to humor me here and there over the past couple years.

He contacts me to try help his team fix an HTML problem they can't fix for one of their projects. Here I am thinking "shoots, no problem. 15 mins I'm out of there!" 3 HOURS later I'm sitting here going "WTF mate!" It wasn't their fault but the templates were a mess of crazy code that just didn't make sense. All the while I just KNEW from experience it was likely to be just ONE tiny line or number that's messing things up in their tables.

It became a personal vendetta. Finally, 3 hours later, I find it.... just ONE number in a few hundred lines of code was breaking things. You know what the irritating thing was? It looked ok in every browser except Internet Exploder!!! Damn you MICROSOFT!!!

Well, it felt good to find it, that's for sure. Except that took up much of my morning.

Now I'm behind...make up for it by working till 10:30pm.

Christy surprised me with a call from work today. How sweet. She's often busy in the emergency room. Did I mention she's a registered nurse? Smart girl. Proud of her. At least she's feeling better. She had the flu the past few days.

Mom on the other hand didn't sound so well tonight. Coughing. Telling her she should take a sick day but she insists on working. /sigh. Not good, she's got me worried. Some stress going on at work for her. She's a rock for everyone else when they need advice, but when it comes to handling her own stress she's not as good as she'd like to think. I hope she'll be alright.