journaling: enabled

I don’t know what to do lately. Work is stressful. My personal life is stressful. Tonight I stayed late working on a script problem for the computer labs because it helped keep my mind off other issues in my life. I would have stayed later except I felt like I was burning out. I’m feeling frustrated. I felt like hitting things, but what good would that do. I’d probably end up with a sore or broken hand and if I’m lucky a dent in something that I hit. It would have been nice to put that sort of energy to use.
Tonight I just kinda veg’d in front of the tv. I watched a show on the competition for the Joint Strike Fighter between Boeing and Lockheed-Martin. It was quite interesting … but I guess I’m into that sort of thing. I watched my tape of ‘Pumpkin Chunkin’. It’s an annual pumpkin hurling competition held out on the east coast. Some incredible hardware … including air cannons that can hurl pumpkins nearly a mile. Apparently they put extra lime in the soil for growing their pumpkins so they come out white with really hard shells to withstand the forces put on them. I think that would be fun to watch sometime.
My latest Linux project is getting Cyrus IMAP upgraded. I’m currently running version 1.5.9 or something like that … quite old but doing the job. I’d like to upgrade to something that supports seive scripts. This requires that I build a working version of Cyrus SASL … ideally allowing me to authenticate against a MySQL database. Of course, that part is experimental, so it’s hard to find any instructions on doing it.