Today's a good day

This morning, the purchasing guy at work handed me a new ergonomic mouse; which means I can take my other one home again.

This morning I handed off my article on drawing quilt patterns to the editor of perl_review. The issue will come out some time in the spring, and since my article is on a colourful topic, it gets the cover. Now I have something else to send dan's mom, who was the reason I started playing with these in the first place.

I also found out that my article for Linux Journal is in the March issue. I won't complain much, because they will be paying me. But about bloody time; this ain't acadamia. I think the author's bio is two times out of date, since I wrote the article about the same time I started my previous job last summer. Because the topic is decidedly non-colourful, (the Perl Debugger), it appears it did not get the cover.

Now I need to be less one-note and write something interesting that has nothing at all to do with a scripting language.

Gratifying

I wish I understood why it never rained but always poured. I mean, really understood, instead of shrugging and winging it each time. My leading hypothesis is a trickster god. (It's funny when one squirrel falls out of a tree onto a friend, but my money says it's gotta be staged when the second squirrel falls onto her a few weeks later. Do you know anybody who's been hit by two squirrels?)

Since I've taken the full-time job at the University a month ago, I've gotten a gratifying number of requests for my time to do small programming gigs (small as in 15-30 hours worth). The notable feature is that they travel in groups- three one evening last week, two this evening, both which I'd have probably taken six months ago.

I would really like to spread some of this karma around- does anybody know good perl programmers looking for small gigs? I've been directing people to the perl jobs list, but I'd like a bit better connection because these are all for friends or colleagues who I'd like to do the right thing by.