Losing my way
Today I went into the center of town to do some shopping for various small things, of which I succeeded in getting about half of what I wanted, which I don't think is bad.
I have decided that, no matter my appreciation of Birmingham city center's good design principles, it's too damn crowded and the shops and facilities are all running at over-capacity. The quickest, simplest solution that presents itself is that the place needs another shopping center in a slightly different location than the current big three. I also heard that there are plans to redo the one on top of New Street Station soon (when they redo the station itself), so hopefully they'll do it intelligently and revamp the place so that it's a) nice, b) bigger and c) easier to get to from New Street and that alone might do the trick.
From the moment I woke up to some hours after I came back from shopping, I felt like I'd lost my way. This last week as been going pretty well and I have some clear ideas why and what I've done to make it that way (and what I've done that's detracted). Today, that all seemed to evaporate and it was most disconcerting. Not sure why it happened, but I think I feel more normal now.
I've noticed that the inevitable has happened: I'm spelling center in the American way and the English way just looks plain wrong. I think that this is one of the occupational hazards of being a programmer/computer geek and I like geeking too much to be overly concerned. Over the next few months I'll also be having to do lots of serializing. I don't know whether I'll ever get used to that one, given that seeing that z hurts. If there's any way I can create an English wrapper, I will!
I have decided that, no matter my appreciation of Birmingham city center's good design principles, it's too damn crowded and the shops and facilities are all running at over-capacity. The quickest, simplest solution that presents itself is that the place needs another shopping center in a slightly different location than the current big three. I also heard that there are plans to redo the one on top of New Street Station soon (when they redo the station itself), so hopefully they'll do it intelligently and revamp the place so that it's a) nice, b) bigger and c) easier to get to from New Street and that alone might do the trick.
From the moment I woke up to some hours after I came back from shopping, I felt like I'd lost my way. This last week as been going pretty well and I have some clear ideas why and what I've done to make it that way (and what I've done that's detracted). Today, that all seemed to evaporate and it was most disconcerting. Not sure why it happened, but I think I feel more normal now.
I've noticed that the inevitable has happened: I'm spelling center in the American way and the English way just looks plain wrong. I think that this is one of the occupational hazards of being a programmer/computer geek and I like geeking too much to be overly concerned. Over the next few months I'll also be having to do lots of serializing. I don't know whether I'll ever get used to that one, given that seeing that z hurts. If there's any way I can create an English wrapper, I will!