IN Digestion

Usually in the past severl months, more likely years - if I spent the entire night awake, it was to hang out and pretty much chill - while not accomplishing much. Tonight was no such night - I have been struggling to begin work on my final project (the one that will (In shaa Allah) make me filthy rich. I have funding, I have the time, and I have the resources to begin. I have two offices to work from (the one on the nice gardens street) and my very own awesome office-in-home. I guess it really does just boil down to laptops versus computers - I have never been able to work on laptops, the one time I did was very early on in my life, when I spent an entire month working on my first ‘decent’ sized project. a CMS for clearguidance, ages ago - but besides that fluke, I have usually been unable to sit down and actually get any ’super long hours’ kinda work on my laptop.

Now, on an actual computer - I have been dead tired, literally - I mean dead tired (have not slept much in the last two days), but here I am awake and have no desire to stop until I am completey unable to make it any further. Of course considering, that the first phase of the project itself is due in about two weeks might have something to do with this - but besides that - I actually got work done. I actually got work done.

Living in a muslim country is so fantastic. What prompted me to write this blog posting (besides the fact I am doing it on Live Writer, and not having to login! is the fact that I was listening to the qur’an which they play before Fajr - you can not but hear the quran at least a few times a day, wether at work, at shops or in taxi cabs or just before each prayer call. Its like even if your a bad person, if you can simply get it into your head to listen you can earn a few (or a lot) good deeds just listening to the Qur’an. My body does however itch all over. I really really must have some sort of skin disease or something. I shaved my head a few days ago, and it itches all of the time. My body itches,. and now I am itching way to much to even continue typing - but I love LOVE blogging with live writer.

Oh, finally, also, I think IN can actually rest without having techinal issues anymore for the next several months while I get rich. The servers have been mac daddy optimized, spam is non existant on most of the services and response times are awesome. Of course anyone who is anyone has already left muslimpad, and/or the forums - but it sitll feels so sexy to know the hardware should not crash and the sites should not ‘go offline’ due to technical problems anymore.

I am a happy camper. I need to somehow itch my entire body though!

Oh, and I have hot water a FRIDGE inside of my living room / office. Loaded with about 40 JODS worth of M AND M Peanuts, twix, crunch chocolate, and coke, sprite, and miranda, and mango juice. Of course that was a week ago. Now all it has is still lots of chocolate, lots of coke, and no mango juice, miranda or sprite. its so awesome to be able to get out of my ‘office’ sit down watch Friends, and grab a ‘cold’ one right from the mini fridge. Its like living in a hotel. Of course, the fact that its sitting on the floor versus a mac daddy comfortable sofa makes it less amazing. But, hey! who cares!  AFRIDGE inside of my living room. Its a dream come true in the making!

Sas

Ok, I am trying Live Writer, I just coded for a while, while munching on M & M Peanuts, and went through some other goodies…

I REALLY hope this works, as it will only make me blog more, (with the quality of course going down) but with the novelty of using an offline or windows app to write my blog entries. DAYAM. My moustache itches

Sometimes inevidbily I get stuck outside of home, against my well wishing to not be there. Like right now, I Was asked to go someplace, I finished what I Came to do, but Ammar is not back, so I am waiting for him to come back so I can get something from him. So that I can go home. Sas Testing live writed to edit an older post…

To be bluntly honest sucks (well no, it does not) but I simply can not. I have a different world I must live in, in which I can not quite say everything, and I can say everything, but its not the same. Its because I am me. I have to lie about the clothes I wear, the shoes I wear, and the teeth I brush - thats the kind of lying I have to do. And it so sucks.

I have to even lie about what I like, and what I do not like. All because, of my brain freeze.

The thing of it is, is that my stomach really does hurt and its hurt exceedingly so., I did eat only pizza, maceroni and cheese, and pizza, and I did not talk or call anyone (including colleagues, and family) for three days. Of course, I am also coughing up green stuff. But the part that is a lie about all of that is the part that I am really exceedinly sick.

I can’t even have a cup of joe anymore. BUT BUT BUT. I have a fridge, and not just any fridge - my dream fridge. With a handle and nothing nothing nothing but drinks and snacks inside.

Sas

I ate MANSAF, (bad idea), but there is this really neat little place I know right accross Hussam (the guy who gives me the free cocktails) ’s Restaurant - and he introduced me to it - but I introduced Ammar to it (my boss) and when I went there for Iftar one day, its SPLENDID. (its so freaking cool, that ‘iftaar’ is a special meal at so many places here in Ramadhan) - so tonight, I took Fatima to it - and we had Mansaf, and we had the entire upper floor to ourselves. VERY COOL, if your wife is a Niqaabi -

So, but, Two Days ago, I bought Digestive Biscuits, and I ate those grape leaves thingies at the Mansaf place, but they were filled with veggies instead of rice and meat as usual, and so with that, and spinach salad eaten AND with lots of digestive biscuits, and NO LEFT Over Lasagna this night. I am doing good, and should be ready to GORGE myself on Eid.

Sas

Loud music is the only way to really get any work done. I know it sucks, but if you ever want to work, I mean work for like 10 hours straight without thinking, and have no inspiration to do - a few cups of coffee, snacks, bathroom breaks and very loud rock or hard rock music is the only way to realistically work.

Or, just not work at all -

Now, I am pumped up, anyway, and ready to go, but I do not really want to, but I want to. I am thinking about getting a pair of roller blades (im not sure where I can find those in jordan, and even if I did, I can’t even imagine how much it would cost) but it would make working so much easier. For the past several days, I have gotten into work around 2PM (considering, we are off at 3:30 PM every day since its ramadhan) thats not really that great - but the big drawback to coming to work on time, is when you wake up, you have this gunky feeling. And the idea of waking up and Walking outside and waiting to find a taxi, is just to depressing to get to work on time. So I tend to go back to sleep until I can’t be asleep any longer. And then wake up and look for a taxi. Of course, the fact that the night before I usually get somem work done, maks me feel not so awful about the whole ordeal but I hate the waiting for the taxi, anything else I can deal with, a bus stop, another car, your OWN car (I wish I had a car), or a bike or roller blades would help - but, so I am thinking about getting a bike or roller blades. Now, I think a bike would be a bad idea, for sure, one day, id get run over, but roller blades, not so bad.

I bought lettuce yesterday, and digestive cookies, instead I ate a lot (I Mean A LOT) of Lasagna, and doritos -

Sas

Ramadhan to me (has been) and for the most part still is, mostly about the Food. The food, the food. I LOVE LOVE Food in ramadhan, and love it even more so in Ramadhan.

HAHA.

MuslimPad.com should not go down anymore, there is one more intermittent issue left that has not been sorted out, but its not critical and can easily be fixed until a permanent solution is found. There are some neat plugins which should cut down on spam. Not sure who really gets a ton of spam or not, but I have been able to cut off the spam on my own blog down to nothing.

Enable the GateKeeper Plugin (on your own blog), and bad behaviour is already installed.

With these two mechanisms in place, Spam should drop - and server uptime will be wicked.

Thats all just for now, IN is going to take a necessary recoil until we sort out the full time work schedule (as well as finances) - but it is surprisingly working out well.