Not enough hours
There are not enough hours in the day. Yesterday, on Saturday, I:
* Went to see Disney on Ice (solely to see Sarah react to it, because it's hard to imagine anything quite so banal as "classic" Disney stories regurgitated and mixed with double-axles.
* Finished the single player campaign for NWN2 (Game: 8/10, shaving off 2 points due to a linear story, clunky camera control, and the fact that it is laggy frequently even on my dual 7900GTXs. Grr.)
* Began working on a long planned module with the NWN2 toolset. I actually probably spent a hundred hours or so working on it in NWN1, but then decided that since it was part of a much larger project that I didn't want to finish and release it to the small NWN1 audience, so I'm going to try to finish it in a timely fashion.
* Finished the book I was reading. "It's Superman!". Anti-climactic, but enjoyable.
* Played a bit of CoH
* Spent quite a while hacking on Kathy's layout page. There's a picklist where people can choose from like 14,000 items for their layouts, to show which items they used. Previously, the javascript did the filtering, using indexOf() on the string. It's slow with the database that bloated. I tried using JS Regexp class, but that wasn't any faster, so I started work on figuring out how to do it ajax style. Now, it won't populate the list at all until you put something in the filter box, and then the server will do the list. Unfortunately, there's simply no way I can think of to substantially speed up the searching process, unless I do something like populate an entire database ahead of time with the results of table scans on every set of potential character chunks. Like I could populate with AAA, AAB, AAC, etc, up through ZZZ. But we're already talking about 17,576 potential chunks of 3 letters, and then I'd need to track the results. But if it worked, I could create a temp table, dump the 3-letter results in joined against the items table, and then full scan those if they entered a larger string. In any event, I didn't get that far, I've been working on an experimental sample page to dynamically populate the select list and stopped there.
* I had a half a bottle of Cabernet.
* I played two sit-n-go tourneys on PokerStars. One NL Hold'em, the other PL Omaha. I finished 3rd in holdem and 2nd in Omaha. I probably misplayed in the holdem one. There was a big stack who was raising every single hand. At one point, I doubled up on him with about 1200 chips by limping the button and having him raise me, when I had AK. Fortunately, he had KJ and I doubled up on his dominated hand. Three handed, he raised EVERY time from the button or the SB if it wasn't raised already. When I found 99 in the SB, I moved in. I was, of course, hoping for a high percentage hand, like 22-88, or an over-under like A8, but he had KT and spiked his K. I'm fairly certain it was a mistake in terms of EV to play with him with 99, because I know my fold equity is zero, and whatever +EV my hand is (And of course, I'm quite certain I'm a favorite in some fashion, since he raises 100% in this spot, so his having TT-AA is very unlikely), it can't be +$ev, only +cEV. But I also finished 2nd in Omaha. The memorable had I had AA35 3 suited (with the flush shot being with the A) and ended up all in against someone with AA46 preflop. I'm not much of a PLO player, but that seems almost like a freeroll, since I'm much more favored to make the low, and we're fairly likely to split the high. And that's exactly what happened, I made the low, we split the high. I had fun playing. I think I'm going to play some HORSE in the future.
Anyhow, there are simply not enough hours in the day. I actually had the urge to do work for DAZ too! Apparently a full time week isn't enough there either. I have like 5 projects I'm working on, all of them could use more time. I'm working hard to focus on work more at work and be less of an infojunkie (although that has ancillary benefits for work, but it still is probably less than optimal).
I think I need a better phone. I definitely want to upgrade to something that can run web apps like Bloglines. How sweet would that be? I think bloglines even HAS a mobile version. But that would help me keep up.
Everything I did, I wanted to do more of.
I wanted to play CoH longer.
I wanted to restart and replay NWN2. (For that matter, I wanted to try some of the high profile mods for NWN1 that have come out recently)
I wanted to work on my mod more.
I wanted to read more. (State of Fear is next on my slate)
I wanted to play more poker
On top of that, I want more time with Kathy and Sarah, but I'm turning into a mental action junky. I'm constantly thinking of things to do and try, and my imagination and planning and excitement for all the stuff I'm doing are running high. When I sit down to do stuff with them, it's often at a much slower pace. Even when we go out, I'm often mentally somewhere else, writing code or a book or calculating odds or planning a module all in my head.