As I write this, I'm some fifteen journal entries behind. For some reason I hit a wall and stopped writing. Well, not so much a wall as my life sort of went South for a bit. At work I just read, a lot. I've read three books in the last couple of weeks, am in the middle of my fourth and fifth books, have read some half dozen magazines, plus a dozen articles on the web (mostly Java stuff).

That's still no excuse. But I just didn't have any time at the end of the day, after reading another 100 to 150 pages and a little bit of work. Meanwhile there is a lot on television that I've been taping. And normally I'd still be able to write and watch tv, but not for the last three weeks. (Strangely enough, I was ahead three weeks ago, then I slowed down to parity two weeks ago before not writing anything).

The last haven for me to write in is the weekend. More precisely the day I try to keep to myself. I usually at least have a movie review to write and several hours to catch up with another couple of journal entries if need be. But the last three weekends I've spent with my parents, or more precisely my Aunt, who was visiting.

I've written this before but it bears repeating. I can not for the life of me do anything constructive when I'm at home. Especially with my parents around. For some reason my parents' place is not a comfortable place for me anymore. I'm just too much on my guard when I'm there, and not in the mood to write or work or do almost anything except read or watch tv.

Another factos is that when weork piles up, it looks like this mountain that I can't possibly climb. I get discouraged and put it off, meanwhile it gets bigger each day as my backlog of journals grows and grows. It takes on a life of its own, and it requires me to be in a certain sort of mood before I can tackle the task.

Such a mood I am in today, actually the early morning before I go to sleep. This will be the first free day in four weeks, and I'm aiming to make the most of it. One reason is that next week is Father's Day, the weekend after that is my brother's birthday, so I'm unlikely to get a free day until July. I'm depressed just thinking about it.

Anyway, I'm going to watch three movies. Well, at least two. Three movies should put me back on the movie per week pace that I've been doing for this year, and it gives me three journal entries to write. It's probably bad luck to anticipate how much writing I'll be able to get done later today.

As a final note, I went through my whole website with iCab and I think I've finally gotten all the pages to be HTML 4 Strict Compliant. I thought I had it already done, but as I checked each page, I discovered that I had missed a few small things. I think I was using the <ALIGN> deprecated tag, plus I wasn't using &<code>; codes for less than, greater than, and ampersand signs.

So now everything is compliant. Well, all but one page where I have & in HREF destinations. I tried to replace them with the %ddd escape (or is it %hh) but the link didn't work that way. Also, all the links should work, the ones that didn't having been removed. Next time I have to use a link checker or some automated program to check my links and HTML code, because I have way too many pages, especially in the BattleTech and Journal sections. This last check took me several hours over the course of a couple of days, and that's with checking using local files instead of using a real web server.