Archive for July, 2001

Bored, Bored, Bored

— July 23rd, 2001, 3:00 pm by Chad | Personal

So there are apparently only two times I write in this diary - when I’m feeling depressed and/or bored. Today it’s more the latter than the former. I can’t seem to figure out this bug I’m trying to crack. It’s one of the few still outstanding for release, so it’s not like I can leave it and go work on something else.

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Oh Yeah, I Forgot - I’m Depressed!

— July 17th, 2001, 2:35 pm by Chad | Personal

So I forgot to mention in yesterday’s entry how I was feeling in general. I went to see the doctor a couple weeks ago, the same day as July 2’s entry. The doctor confirmed that I was depressed - in fact, severely depressed. He said the fact that I hadn’t been feeling suicidal was remarkable given my other symptoms. Read more…

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Ow! That Hurt!

— July 16th, 2001, 3:45 pm by Chad | Personal

I really, really hate getting blindsided. For six months, we have been gearing up at Mirim to change directions from a Microsoft-only solution to a truly cross-platform product using J2EE and JFC/Swing, partly at my urging. All of a sudden at our lunch meeting today, our bosses tell us that they made a “business decision” last Friday to move to C# and .NET instead. Read more…

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I Think I’m On to Something

— July 2nd, 2001, 12:00 pm by Chad | Personal

So over coffee last night (and in an email yesterday that I didn’t read until this morning), Jennie said to me, “I think maybe you should write another entry so that people don’t think we’re still fighting.” So for the two of you out there that read this, we’re not fighting anymore. We’ve buried the hatchet, mostly because I realized my thinking was confused over something else. Read more…

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