happy leap day, kats and kitties.

a friend asked me earlier today if i know much about javascript. a bit of code he’s written is behaving differently in IE than in Firefox. no, i tell him, i don’t code much any more. which is true. i barely write my own HTML for blogs and such these days. but it is impossible for me to leave a coding puzzle like that alone. i ended up spending half the afternoon tracking down the bug. more annoying, in the end the bug was a result of IE allowing a case mistake slide and Firefox getting bitchy about it. but it required that i re-teach myself javascript syntax and totally re-write his script before we located the error. it was a reminder of why it is that i got out of coding in the first place. i find the activity to be all-consuming. i forget to eat, to take breaks, anything else i’m supposed to be working on (like, uh, work? the kind i get paid to do?) gets procrastinated as the hours slip by. i kind of LOVE that level of concentration, that mental zone, especially compared to the frenetic, multi-tasking manner i seem to usually work in these days. well, at least slithy-tove’s formatting might benefit from the code i wrote today. might as well put it to use somewhere, right?

also, i must have this bookshelf/bed. in my future dream house, this will be the very second thing i will build.