Dan Mayer's Blog

alright i am back from san fran, and I will actually be in colorado for awhile. I just have alot of planning and wedding stuff to take care of in the next while. Anyways I am back, but I am completely wiped out. I just need some down time for awhile, it should come quickly as i dont htink i will be working 12 hour shifts or anything this next week. So that rocks.

So besides that pretty much all is the same.

Well I recently saw a homeless person while I was on my way to work one morning, they were walking with a small trash bag and picking up trash from the sidewalk and the side of the road. It made me think about how someone that has pretty much nothing still takes the time and cares about the apperance of their city, their home. It was kind of weird and forced me to stop and think for a bit. I think since I have developed such a hate for society lately that it was refreshing and good thing to see someone with so little still caring about others. Obviously not out to get any true benifit from helping out, but just a desire to do good. So what have you done to help your fellow men (and women) lately?

There are alot of homeless people around denver and I happen to pass some of their main hang outs while driving to and from work, and I have started to become really curious about some of their stories. How they got there? What they want? Their stories, histories, families, girlfriends, boyfriends, and what little things they still love. I was thinking how sometimes on a really nice summer day, when I pass the homeless park (a park filled with homeless people by a food shelter), that it must be kind of like a little party with old friends greeting each other while relaxing and waiting for a nice meal... perhaps i paint to pretty of a picture, but I am sure once in awhile they can forget their worries for a short while as well...

So sometimes I just focus on the little joys of life... the feeling of the sun on your skin, the calmness you get when you look out over trees blowing in the wind, that feeling the moment your drifting off into sleep, the tingle as someone's finger brushes against your skin, the look in someones eyes as you give a hug goodbye, and many more little things worth noticing to just remind you everything is alright...

ahh like the famous there is never any time scream from saved by the bell... i feel a bit to much coming up.

I have my places pool party saturday and a cool concert saturday night... Yippie...

So I will be going to that if your interested in either join me. the concert is motion city soundtrack... I think the pool party starts at 11 and the concert at 7... so start the pool party late and cruise on into concert time seems like the way to go.

I need to finalize some stuff for Scott's B party, get my hair cut, buy chairs, beer, wood glue, fix table, clean place, and clear out some extra sleeping space... that and I still need to move out of my boulder place entirely and I really need to get on that one.

Oh well at least I am done traveling for awhile... So for now I dont want to have to leave Colorado for anything short of me getting the perfect woman or a million dollars... if you dont know what to do with a million dollars consult the movie office space... hehe

So what makes you better off today than yesterday?

If you aren't on your way to becoming what you want what are you doing? When will fight club come to get you?

If you complain about things but you dont do anything about it, is it your fault? What if you dont know what to do?

If I didnt learn something new each day I would be bored, luckly today I learned to successfully debug multi-threading race conditions... what did you learn?

well it is one night till the concert (Motion City SoundTrack), 4 the BBQ, 5 bachelor party, 6 wedding rehersal, 7 wedding, and on the 8th day he rests... Anyways this would be a pretty sweet week if I was the one getting married and such. Unfortunately, I just get to witness and be a part of the happy occasion. Well I ran a shit ton of errants which is good, but I still have alot to get done by wendsday... this sunday should be a pretty busy day, not to mention that I have a big new website to release on july 30th...

ahhh only a little longer and life with settle down a bit... to bad that isnt exactly what I am looking for either... So raise your glass and cheers to everyone out there, make a cheers we should share together and share it with me here...

Yippie Motion City Soundtrack who's new album is out now... Damn I am pimping out this band, but what can I say they have stuck a cord with me... the trick is they have their fun songs and their really deeper meaning songs... Do you know which one hits me the most? Guess guess......

Yippie i have the first season of Lois and Clark on DVD... 44 dollars well spent, 36 hour long episodes... plus 2 extra DVD's.... and 1 DVD with an episode of small ville... yippie...

My love of Teri Hatcher still exists, to bad she is all famous again and she wont ever even go on a date with me... hehe

Tonight I was at some sort of wedding BBQ and tomorrow is all the bachelor party stuff... It should be a really good time... Steve will be in town, Scott should have fun... it was funny how many warnings i got tonight to not mess up his face.... i guess people thought we would shave his head or eyebrows or something... hehe funny, I am pretty sure it will be a wild good time, but will leave scott relatively unharmed.. just hung over a bit.

Also I have a pretty cool project to work on at work which is fun makes the days go by quicker an dI get to learn some cool stuff.

sweet I have a break for about a month and a half before my next wedding... rock on... i think i am camping next weekend and finishing moving out and helping dom and nicole move the weekend after that... so i am still a little busy for now but yippie for not being invovled in any more wedding stuff...

Not that this means that stuff wasnt fun and great it is just a little heavy and stressfull as well. So cheers to the newlyweds and cheers for dancing with a lot of peoples moms on the wedding dance floor.

Well time to slow down a bit and look at what has actually been occurring around me... watching what has been changing lately...

So much is going on that I can barely adapt fast enough, I guess I feel as if I might have had just an incorrect belief or focus for most of my life, something that I wish was more correct, but as I learn more about society it seems I was doing wrong. It seems that their is a certain amount of selfishness required and needed in our current way of life. Which I attempt only in the most "strange" (we'll say) of situations. So at this point do I have to try to adapt? Do I just continue on as I have? At which point is waiting for the one, just hoping for impossible expectations?

This next part I expect to make no sense but to me (in my secret code (dom & nicole)) it makes sense...

If below the line you do drop
the tears just fall harder
for at and above the result is expected
but when you stagger and fall it should be
more to a acceptible level that you see
when you fail to see the result believed
your added pain is soon received
I dont know what to do
I leave my thoughts lost to you
After the drop I am back on standard
but it doesnt mean I am set right
and I know that it will drop tonight
so let it just remain.........

If you have an interpertation of that email me I doubt it should be posted...

Finally enough time away from the mask to once again say hello.

dang it i have to much other stuff to deal with and now my cars check engine light came on... it turned on on the way home....

man I had some serious problems running java in cygwin with a shell script (sh script)... So I am going to post my script to help you out... there are a couple things of note first...

java a windows program expects windows paths your cygwin script proably uses unix paths.

cygwin sh scripts treat ';' as a special character so when using multiple classpaths you must escape it '\;' to make it work as expected...

# test.sh
JAVAEXE=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java.exe
cd ../
IEP_HOME=C:\\dev\\dsmayer\\sandbox\\iep
IEP_BIN=C:\\dev\\dsmayer\\sandbox\\iep\\bin
IEP_LIB=C:\\dev\\dsmayer\\sandbox\\iep\\lib
IEP_JAR=C:\\dev\\dsmayer\\sandbox\\iep\\lib\\iepio.jar
IEP_IST=C:\\dev\\dsmayer\\sandbox\\iep\\lib\\istcustom.jar
IEPB_JAR=C:\\dev\\dsmayer\\sandbox\\iep\\lib\\backport-util-concurrent.jar
IEP_PROPS=C:\\dev\\dsmayer\\sandbox\\iep\\properties

echo java -cp $IEP_JAR\;$IEP_IST\;$IEPB_JAR RCS.example.RCSreg
echo
java -cp $IEP_JAR\;$IEP_IST\;$IEPB_JAR RCS.example.RCSreg &
java -cp $IEP_PROPS\;$IEP_JAR\;$IEPB_JAR\;$IEP_IST RCS.example.clients.ResourceClient &
java -cp $IEP_PROPS\;$IEP_JAR\;$IEPB_JAR\;$IEP_IST RCS.example.clients.UserClient &

i just learned there is an actually state farm insurance guy named Dan Man and I am jealous.

well i guess u cant have it all.

I am going to my friend Jesse's concert on friday night... guess what your invited.. if you were at the last Flobots concert, I am sure you would like to try to come, if you didnt like the last show come to this one. Yippie for the concert... Friday night at 7:00 pm...

give me a call if your interested.