Blah! How fucking stupid can I be? What am I babbling about?

When I woke up this morning, I felt blah! Not really sick. But not really well either. Very tired. Fatigued. A total disinterest in existence. Yesterday, I felt tired all day, so I had no intention of going though that again. I spent the morning in bed sleeping.

I've learned that if I'm not quasi-alert, I'll screw up the simplest project. It comes from the fact that I'll drift off into the auto-pilot stage, and then suddenly realize I've really fucked up.

All my webmastering is done via telenet and the vi editor. There are pros and cons of not using a web page program such as Front Page or Dreamweaver. But I like idea of having absolute control of every html tag. And I also want control over the layout of the code itself. If you've ever looked at the code for a page done via a program, you'll see what I mean; it is not very friendly looking.

I'd not had a manual vi until I came across one recently at Barnes & Noble. It had several new tricks I was unfamiliar with, so I tried them out. One problem I discovered was that I was not saving the files. I'd spend an hour updating a page, only to discover at the end, it was not there. Well, I learned out to avoid that little difficulty.

Although I stayed home today, this afternoon, I needed to work on Friday's web pages. I didn't really feel like it, but it was a necessity. I altered a couple of graphics under Paint Shop Pro then uploaded them. But then I realized I'd sent them to the wrong directory. I've created graphics directories according to the web pages. For all the pages dealing with project x there is a "common graphics" directory. For all the pages for y; a different graphics directory. Now some of these projects have thousands of graphics files in the directory.

So I thought I'll just move the misplaced graphics from directory x to directory y. Which is what I did. But it took about 90 seconds which seemed odd. Two guesses what I did. I'd managed to move ALL the graphics from one directory into the other directory. Now the second directory has files from both projects intermixed! Thousands of little files all cohabitating. Holy fuck! How fucking stupid can I be! (No, don't answer that! I'd be too busy crying to read the response anyway.)

But in a moment of genius, I remembered I had a hardcopy list of both directories. It took an hour or so, but I was able to extract all the wayward files and return them to their rightful place.

As I re-read the above, I wondered what was I thinking to babble on. But of course, it's another example of being on auto-pilot. Crap! I need to stop while I'm ahead.

PAX!