does anybody really know what day it is?

I've been very busy this week, but have managed to absolutely geek out a couple of times. As I occasionally do, I got to thinking about a geeky project this week. It was something to do while I was failing to fall asleep but unable to stay awake. Anyway, my project is genealogical in nature and deals with dates of various flavors. While doing some searching for date algorithms I found a page on Doomsday calculations. It's not about the end of the world, but it's neat number games with days of the week. I heart John Horton Conway.

I then did some further searching and found the Julian Day Number calculations. This was exactly the thing I was looking for and in my opinion an elegant solution to the whole timekeeping problem in general.

Let me tell ya, I was geeking out hardcore. I sounded like Beaker on speed.

what I've been doing with my life

My life this week has basically consisted of driving to work, working, driving home and sleeping. Now, this may sound horrible, but the work is actually providing me with the opportunity to teach myself new things, re-sharpen some of the skills that have gotten rusty, and get paid for it. By the end of December I'm going to want things to be under control as far as the schedule goes, but for now I'm putting in 60 hours a week. This has meant, and will mean, a certain sacrifice in leisure time. Alright, a huge f'ing hit to leisure time.

The sleeping I generally like, but for the last couple weeks I've been plagued by racing brain syndrome. I'll be kind of almost asleep for large portions of the night with my brain racing but repeating the same thoughts and accompanied by the same tiny bit of song lyric. The song lyric and the thoughts will be in a pitched battle for supremacy. The thoughts are generally just a tiny bit of some problem at work, something I have to do around the house, or some project I'm working on at home. It seems to go on for hours with no resolution, neither waking up or falling back into proper sleep. I really need to stop thinking.