Day 23, Saturday, A fast-paced morning and slow evening

Before leaving Redlands, I left a computer at my old job with a coworker. Last night, he called me with a question about it. It was about 1pm in the California afternoon when he called, or 1:30 am in the early Indian Saturday morning. He called my Skype online number. Skype recorded his voicemail, and emailed me to notify that I had one.

Half an hour later, I woke up in the middle of the night, as commonly happens. My iPod was with me inside my mosquitoe net. Out of bad habit, I checked my email on it, and saw the email from Skype. With the Skype application on my iPod, I checked my voicemail and listened to his message.

To respond, I fired up the device's Safari web browser, navigated to Gmail, and emailed him. After that I fell back asleep.

I woke up at 6am to my iPod's alarm after a solid seven hours of sleep. I got out of bed after five minutes of lying awake, and turned on my computer. Because I failed to write much yesterday, I immediately sent off a couple emails instead of going to the gym.

I made it to the gym at by 7. The security guard was tired and expressionless. At this hour, there were a few other men in the gym. Later around ten in the morning, women begin to show up and have it to themselves.

I warmed up, and worked on my back and chest. I can only do one pull up.

I have three mosquitoe bites from yesterday. While I talked to my grandmother, I was standing outside on our balcony, and a very hungry mosquitoe took three bites along different joints of my index finger, even as I tried to discourage it. It seems that when a mosquitoe wants to feed on me, it aggressively hovers toward my skin. It doesn't go away if I "shoo" at it, like a fly will.

I came back to my room, had breakfast, wrote some more, and showered. I took an hour to go to the market.

Having that done, I surfed the web for news for awhile. I examined new web services including The Sixty One for streaming music through the internet, Posterous as an extremely simple blogging tool, Picwing for automatically sending printed photos to loved ones, and Heroku for simplified hosting of rails applications.

I continued writing, and deployed Script.aculo.us on my homepage. Installation worked as advertised.

Tonight there was another programming contest, but I didn't participate. I should have.