I just realized how late it is, so this will be quick.

Spent more time hacking on the Perl for work, then spent last night and today doing more Perl, but for me this time. And getting more and more frustrated because I hadn't paid close enough attention to a file that was being written by the perl script, which meant that the function it was supposed to be doing that depended on both that file and a certain line in the file it was parsing didn't actually happen. Took me a couple hours to find that, but I cleaned up some other things in the code in the process.

Didn't turn the teevee on all day today. Not really sure why.

Talked to the rents today. Still haven't bought them anything for Christmas, and mom still hasn't given me any sort of idea at all what to get her. She's the woman who buys everything she wants on impulse, and hates everything else on sight. Dad, oddly, suggested that I get him another tie bar -- I'd bought him one years ago and it's almost the only one he wears -- which was my punt idea for him, if only because it's the only one he ever seems to wear and it's time he got a new one. So I'll pick him up a tie bar this week and maybe throw in another Beethoven CD.

Speaking of CDs, I told mom that I swore I'd never buy her another CD the moment I saw that she owned a Celine Dion CD. Ew.

I just remembered I have to move the car. Feck. Nighty.

(18 dec)