I took last Monday off to enjoy the day after my husband's birthday at home with him...which would have been nice if not for the day-long power outage that pretty much ruined his actual birthday. Being the techies we are...poor things...we suffered immeasurably without our televisions, consoles, or laptops, and the severity of my condition manifested as a festering need to cling to the one thing that could shed light and connect to a network: my cell phone. I should clarify that I normally could have used my laptop on its battery, but this was one of those rare moments where I hadn't charged it after its last use. Grrr @ me. So anyway, we went out for brunch. We came home. No power. We went shopping. We came home. The power came on! For five minutes. The power company said it would be twelve hours before it came back. We decided to go shopping again. We came home again.
The electricity did return much sooner than anticipated. Actually, it came back on just before we left the third time, but Best Buy was having a sale...and we are techies, after all. So let this little crisis be a testament to my reliability on the charge that runs all my gadgets and the first step toward demonstrating my geekiness.
Let's call that Exhibit A and this Exhibit B, since I used to work in Criminal Justice and am taking a step back there for just a moment. In that field, I created databases and I loved it. All the functions and queries and table-building, designing the forms and reports, and choosing the colors and pictures for the backgrounds - it was fantastic! It was the perfect blend of technical and creative that my brain drools over more than a zombie drools over a perfectly happy brain. But now - as much as I love my job (and I cannot stress that I LOVE my job enough) - any task I do on any given day is far more technical than it is creative. The most creative thing I do in a day is my makeup (anyone who has seen my Facebook page or knows me can attest) - hence the pink (or sometimes blue) hair, the crazy eyeshadow or themed makeup, and mismatched socks with plaid shoes. My body has become my canvas so that my mind can focus on the technical at work.
Time for a sidebar. My husband is an audiophile. Symptoms of his affliction include an extensive dvd/blu-ray collection. And since I'm an anime-niac, my anime collection certainly doesn't help matters. It's hard to keep track of - we can sit there, staring at it all, and not be able to pick out something to watch because there's just too much! In fact, we easily have a dozen discs that we've purchased and have yet to watch. Some are still in plastic wrap. I guarantee it.
Last monday night, I found myself wanting to watch a movie, but unable to choose. My solution? And yes, for whatever reason, with everything that I have to do, I was this bored: create a database so I (we) can look at a list or choose by genre to narrow it down. And that's what I did. Three hours later, I had the database completed, including a place to put in a cover picture for reference (fancy!), and even had all of our titles entered and the number of discs cataloged. OMG. Okay, I lied. I forgot to the put in The Karate Kid because it's here at work, so the database (PMDB) is missing one disc. Oh, and I have an anime shipping today, so I'll have to add it...well, suffice it to say that it's an ongoing project that'll never end. Just like my geekiness.
^_- Once a geek. Always a geek. For life!
P.S. I know, I know. I should have been working on my book or querying or something. But I want to do the queries in very small batches and wait them out before I start anew, and I've been reading sample synopses so I can strengthen mine. I'm only supposed to include the main plot lines, but my synopsis leaves out a major player in the "villain's" motivation that I feel I should work in. So...this weekend, hopefully, I'll start round numeral dos.
