I’ve been feeling very weird the last few days and last night I was at my worst. I am guessing that it’s the flu but I am going to the doctor tomorrow just to get it checked out and make sure it isn’t anything else.

I think my plan for today is to veg out and sleep and drink a lot of fluids. Since it rained last night (and looks like it will rain more today) it’s just one of those days to sit around and do nothing.

Replaced the spark plugs and wires in my truck yesterday. One of the plugs we found was completely burnt out and was probably barely firing. The truck is now firing pretty well and it seems to have a little more bounce to its step.

PHP version 5 was released earlier this evening. Now the challenge lays ahead to get it installed on as many webservers as possible =)

I have almost completely finished the archiving feature that I have been working on for a while now. It should be up and running by tonight or tomorrow. My next goal is to do a redesign of the database structure and see if I can tweak to fit my needs a little more.

I am dissappointed because my host does not allow InnoDB table types and I don’t want to use PostgreSQL to do my work. Why InnoDB you ask? I want to be able to use true foreign keys to cascade a table when a record is deleted in another. With MyISAM I have to manage the deletion of records through PHP which is cumbersome and from a systems design point of view, flat out wrong.

Well, the truck is fixed and quiet frankly I think it was something that I could have done myself (or had someone else do) for a lot cheaper. The cost for the work was 3x the cost of the part. Kind of depressing isn’t it?

Tonight I am compiling a list of candidates for work PC’s to take in tomorrow so that my bosses can make a decision. My budget is $2,000 and they would really like a nice monitor that would last a long time. If you have any suggestions for a programming machine, e-mail me at ssegraves [at] gmail dot com.

Driving to the store on Saturday I noticed that the shifting mechanism did not line up with the gear that the transmission was in. So when it looked like the truck was in reverse it was really parked. I had this problem fixed not too long ago (February to be exact) and I took it back to the people who did the work originally, Gene Messer Ford.

While I was waiting on them to fill out some paperwork I had 3 different employees give me suggestions on other service I could do to my truck from an oil change to an injection cleaning. When they said I needed an oil change I just gave him a funny look and said “I just changed it about 2 months ago” so he proceeded to show me the color of the oil in my truck, it was brown. He showed me a sample of what it should look like, clear. Uhh, I don’t know what kind of car this guy was driving but I don’t know of any oil in any ones car that’s clear.

Stop trying to sell me stuff I don’t really need and just fix my car. It’s that simple.

Someone asked me today exactly where I stand on the upcoming election. I responded by saying that there were certain things with both candidates that I did not support and there were certain things I did. The breaker right now is the fact that John Kerry cannot shoot straight with the public, at all. He doesn’t lie because he doesn’t know which lie to tell.

I do support Kerry’s stance on sending jobs overseas. I feel that Bush could have kept jobs here and allowed the economy to grow naturally. To be honest though I do not really support either candidate’s tax proposals. Neither of them will pan out to get the job done, all they will do is make one side of the spectrum mad at the other.

Gay marriage? I personally am not a supporter of gay marriage but I also understand the seperation of Church and State. I feel that it is no right of the government to ban a church from marrying gay couples but I also feel that the government cannot force a church to marry them if the church does not support it.

That’s pretty much where I stand. I support the war in Iraq because I feel that something should have been done about Saddam during the Clinton administration when Hussein blatantly defied the U.N. and its inspectors. Clinton had the power then, but he blinked and faltered.

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