A couple of light dots in this image. Like dust specs on the negative or paper when I went to print. Working with the crude tool that is Preview.app, I had to just leave it. To think that Preview.app is crude; the time it would have taken me to get this in the darkroom isn't even funny. Especially since I never did color!

Woke up far too early this morning. Only got about 5 hours of sleep or so and it was restless sleep. Kept having some bizarre dream combination of needing to do testing and working at Dunder-Mifflin. It wasn't going well, to say the least. There were fights over the test names and namespaces. Horrible dream. Generally been having restless sleep since I got here. Maybe a few solid nights of sleep, but mostly restless. And I have hives on both my forearms from god knows what. Showed up while we were taking a hike around Beaverdam Lake. WTF!? I haven't had hives since I was kid.

Told Steve I'd be able to finish the project I'm on by the end of the week. I'm getting a bit worried I was being aggressive in that time-estimation. We'll see. He sounded a bit surprised by it when suggested. Worse case scenario is I tell him I need another day, but I'd like to avoid it. The biggest time sink will be Windows testing.

I've been a bit more aware of my emotions lately. I think this writing venue helps put a lens on things and thus makes me more aware later. This is good. Awareness and Communication seem to be key to this. Yesterday I was really overcome by how much I love Bean. Too much Emily Jane white, perhaps. :-)

I keep thinking how easy it would be to decipher who I am from reading this. So much public data out there to correlate with what I say. We haven't even touched the surface of all the issues being raised by this. Most people aren't even aware there's an issue. Though, maybe there's less of one than I think. Maybe the people who stalk would do it regardless of the ease because it's their nature. Maybe this doesn't change much. Still, I can't help but feel uneasy that people put themselves out there and not know it. It's like the debacle with the Google car "accidentally" collecting data packets from wireless networks. Sure, they shouldn't have collected that data, but come on people, you are using a (unencrypted) radio to read your email! How reasonable is it for people to complain? The counterpoint to this is something like heat radiation escaping from your house (grow room) and The Fuzz using devices to look at it and determine a knock on the door. That is invasion of privacy. So, what is the difference? I think, for me, it comes down to intention. Building and using a device for the purpose of gathering information about someone without their knowledge is an invasion of privacy. The Google car was collecting ESSID beacons and happened to pick up some data packets as well. They had no use or care for the data packets, they wanted the ESSIDS correlated with a GPS position. They (I hope) have no intention of using the data packets and should have thrown them away. So, for me, it comes down to: the citizen should not be naïve, but they also shouldn't be surveilled. Let's do what we can to protect ourselves and demand to not be watched.

Alright, that seems like a good stopping point. Now I need to decide whether to turn that thought bubble into a public post.