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By gzt (Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 01:01:13 PM EST) gzt, chess (all tags)

Well, I might be willing to admit that I could possibly being going through a slight bout of what could conceivably be termed depression, though I'm reasonably happy. I have a severe case of oblom and I don't really feel like doing anything. Even the things I typically use to distract me, like chess, can't be buggered with. At lunch or on the train home, I do some chess or something as a distraction, but lately I've just been staring off into space because I can't be buggered to think.

My back is feeling better, at least. It still hurts if I sit all day, of course, but that's natural. I do, however, have this odd thing where my stomach muscles feel all out of sorts, it makes me wonder if I like herniated something or what have you, but it's on and off and on both sides (but not at the same time). Having a beer sometimes aggravates it. I should get it glanced at. It doesn't really hurt, it's just weird.

Last night, it got pretty warm in my room, so I turned on the AC and it blew a fuse in my room. What sometimes happens is that it like doesn't turn on right and it somehow then overloads the circuit. Oops. So I fumbled around in the dark for a few minutes and then got everything going again. What I forgot about was that this would shut off my alarm clock. Oops. I don't actually use an alarm clock, but it's what I use to keep track of time. It meant I had to get out of bed to see what time it was in the morning. Which meant I didn't bother until I was pretty sure it was a time that I wouldn't want to go back to bed. Which meant I ended up being late. Well, I don't care. See my intro text.

I'm going to have to draw some lines.

I saw Metropolis last night. The symbolism was a bit heavy-handed at points.

Somebody at work was shorted $0.09 by the program I built. It would be a severe pain to actually fix this. I have a bag of pennies in my desk. I might just mail her $0.09 to fix it. I have a bag full of pennies in my desk.

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0.09 by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #1 Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 01:25:26 PM EST

IIRC, there's some sort of math error that generally causes that when balancing book. Getting digits reversed or something.

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Here's the problem: by gzt (2.00 / 0) #2 Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 01:40:44 PM EST

It turned out that when one report was imported, for some reason all the dollar amounts got rounded down, so $101.09 became $101.00. Fortunately, only 15 people and $4.21 suffered the consequences. Oops! I've fixed the issue.

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transposing digits makes an error divisible by 9 by lm (2.00 / 0) #4 Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 03:01:15 PM EST

But not all errors divisible by 9 are transpositions.

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: indeed. by gzt (2.00 / 0) #8 Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 03:18:53 PM EST

This was importing a field as an integer when it needed to be currency, so all the change got eaten. Drat, and I needed some M&Ms, too.

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Ennui by ad hoc (2.00 / 0) #3 Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 02:50:34 PM EST

welcome to my life.
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my advice: drop out and become a goatherder by lm (2.00 / 0) #5 Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 03:05:21 PM EST

If you don't find a job doing something you like, the rest of your life is going to feel like this. So do what you need to do to stay sane. Maybe you should shoot for being a professional chess player.

But, on the other hand, taking a professional advice from me might not be the best idea in the world.

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic

goatherder by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #6 Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 03:07:51 PM EST

plus: cheese!
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two things by gzt (2.00 / 0) #7 Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 03:12:09 PM EST

Well, maybe three. The first is that I'm interviewing for jobs in another field. The second is that I think there was a high correlation between the onset of this and back pain plus a couple other things in life. Third is that professional chess is, even if I did have the talent (I don't), not really viable for more than about 100 current players and I suppose quite a few more people might make their careers off of instruction and writing.

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Don't forget chess sharks by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #9 Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 03:23:20 PM EST

they start off with friendly games they lose, then start asking to make it more interesting with a little money.

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: yeah, I could make like $20/day off that. by gzt (2.00 / 0) #12 Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 03:40:40 PM EST

Woo!

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Depression's just another word for by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #10 Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 03:25:16 PM EST

nothing left to lose.

Either that, or it is the natural state for a human being with a solid grasp on the nature of his or her fellow human beings. Why "medical" "science" thought this needed to be "cured" is beyond me; I can only assume the reasoning was as simple as "we should generate a product that we can convince millions of potential customers they need, despite the fact that what we're doing is unnatural for the species as a whole".

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Metropolis had to be made that way. by ammoniacal (2.00 / 0) #11 Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 03:31:51 PM EST

People were much dumber back then, so one had to compensate for the masses.

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