Wrapping up a long day
I woke at 7:51am, the earliest all summer. I immediately read some more from Driven From Distraction, then took on a leisurely morning of just... stuff. Fixing a bug in FSA that wrote cluttersome temporary files (involving the replacement of the POP3 email system), then moved on to Sentry 3.0. It was fun to work on that all day. A new beta should be out soon.

I called my mentee's mom, and we're going to have lunch and mini-golf on Friday. I'm looking forward to it!

Around 3 or 4 a monstrous storm approached and I got excited, but it veered off 5 miles north. Then Simeon came over to chat. While we were here another cell approached and the weather intensified over an hour, eventually resulting with LOUD lightning and a few specks of pea size hail bouncing into my living room. Awesome. A software idea was sparked from the rain, but who knows how practical it is.

Then, I suddenly find out that I am due to be played on Money Shot Radio 53 minutes before it happens. Whoa! I had sent Angus a mix but didn't expect him to play it right away. It was very cool (link coming), and we had a peak of about 250 listeners. Heh, I went on a little bit of an ego spaz and sent a billion instant messages. Was a little proud at the moment, you could say.

All in all, the day has been good, the kind you thank God for. But it ends on a nagging thoughtful note..

My last communication of the day was with from the someone who also happened to be the first, from a very good person and very good friend of mine. We don't really hang out anymore, time passes things change. Her wedding is like 10 days away, and there is a house waiting in another state. At one point in time, we both had crushes on each other, but neither realized. Or acted. After this fact was revealed to us both, she had already found a boyfriend, who would later become her fiance. And let me say, he is a class act. Hell of a guy. These guys are going to be so happy together, and I'm glad for it. But to this day, I wonder what might have been different had I pursued it a little more. What would have happened?

But that is the nature of life -- time passes, things change. People drift away regardless of what actions you take. Events happen that you can't control. Nobody's fault. Some events you can control. But you have to be able to live with regret.

I'm learning.