bmabray's Journal: Christmas Shopping

I believe I've finished all my Christmas shopping -- I'll have to take inventory before I know for sure. I'm exhausted, but it's one of those good exhausteds, if you know what I mean. I should be getting ready for bed, but I wanted to jot down a couple of thoughts before I do.

I've never been one of those people who get depressed during the holidays. In fact, I'm the exact opposite. But this year, in the middle of all the fun of buying people stuff, I did feel a little sad. I was trying to figure out what to buy for people, and I realized how little I know about the people I care so much for. It's a shame, and the only reason I don't know what they want/need is because I don't spend much time with them. Hopefully, that's something I can correct before next Christmas.

And then there's the person I know too well. :-) I kept thinking of more things to get for Angela... I finally had to remind myself that there were two other gift-giving occasions coming up soon.

I haven't had time to work on any of my projects, but I have given the weblog some thought. I was trying to figure out how I could create entries using HandX on my PDA and have those somehow get automatically loaded into a database. Well, here's how: I can create an update page that will take any entries not already in the database and save them there. Then, I make that page an AvantGo page. When I sync the Palm, HandX will upload the entries, then the update page will be run by AvantGo to load the entries into the database. Seems like that will be the easiest way to do it. Of course, by the time I get around to doing this stuff, they'll have the technology where I can beam the entries directly from my brain... :-)