Psychotomy

Been working on cleaning up a bunch of entries I imported from another group for the visible earth, lately. where by lately i mean “a month working on before the import to try to minimize after import time” followed by (so far) “a month after the import cleaning up the bits from the automation scripts I wrote to make things ‘close’”

one week of that after was thrown away when i realized i was accidentally deleting relevant information (not actually deleting it, but it was no longer connected to where it had been connected to, making it meaningless and untraceable)

now i’m done the major portion, and doing a second round of cleanup. i could technically punt this round of cleanup and let it slide. And I’m thinking I might :o gonna finish up today’s roundabout and see where it leaves me and decide then. hopefully I’ll be able to push these updates live before we leave for NY this weekend

of course, when I get back, I need to open access to the administration tools, which shouldn’t be hard but I’m afraid of what these yahoos might do :o and THEN i get to start on the massive earth observatory suck and redesign. which redesign, of course, the graphics designer hasn’t even vaguely started working on yet. but i’m sure somehow it’ll become my fault.

somewhere i’m supposed to develop a big calendar kindof damned thing. showing my tasks and delivery-dates for segments and crap like that. which could take me a month to fill out on it’s own. or, might, if the webapp i downloaded for it worked :/

maybe i’ll write my own. could be fun for a day or two (i already know the basics of how to write a simple app of that nature; i could try to clean up my questionable old java knowledge :o or just hack it out in perl more likely)

and on top of all of this, I’M BORED. busy as heck. forbidden to work more than a 40hr week. but bored b/c i know HOW to do most of what i need, and implementation is not interesting as design/theory :/

anyway. back to “work”, where by work i mean “tediously and mindlessly doing more cleanup of these 7000 new entries and the 3000 relaed bits that i have to parse up”

maybe i’ll just punt it :o

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