Lay off situation at work is making me tense.  The company gave them two months notice [...]]]> http://www.sandykatkat.com/2010/03/sleep/ When under stress or feeling overwhelmed, people do strange things.  I went to get a hair cut.  I let hair grow for 3 years without a trim, didn’t think much about the lack of style or what impression people have of me.  IT is a very conservative place; I do not see a lot of [...]]]> http://www.sandykatkat.com/2009/12/hair-cut-and-25-random-things/ It’s Friday nearly 6pm.  60% to 70% of the folks already left work to enjoy early start of the weekend. I am still in office, battling with tool limitations and various manual steps of compiling/deploying/testing.  It’s a life of a developer who’s starting to get behind schedule.  Yup.  That’s me.

I was washing cups in the [...]]]> http://www.sandykatkat.com/2009/08/simple-happiness/ If you have allergy, you know how annoying it is to get watering eyes, sneezing, running nose, congestion and so on. I used to carry pocket-size Kleenex with me all the time because of it.

I tried taking Claritin-D, but that stuff takes a while to kick in.  Later I tried Zertec-D and loved it for [...]]]> http://www.sandykatkat.com/2009/03/i-dont-like-having-allergy-reaction-or-the-side-effects-of-allergy-pills-now-what/ A few months back I blogged about making a baby blanket.  I actually finished it in September, but had been too lazy to transfer the pictures to my computer. =p  But here it is, two pictures of the finished project, my very first soft and cuddly baby blanket. Yay!

Wait, have I mention what my ChumChum is?  I guess I have skipped that part. =)

As part of my birthday presents this year, along with a John McCain birthday card, [...]]]> http://www.sandykatkat.com/2008/09/my-chumchum/ My dear friend Tracy is pregnant and is expecting her first baby girl this October.  I thought, what a perfect chance for me to make a baby blanket!  So I set out the mission to make one.

Once I made the decision, I realized that I have never made a baby blanket before.  Strangely, I have [...]]]> http://www.sandykatkat.com/2008/08/latest-project/ I finally uploaded pictures of some of my past cross stitch projects. As you can see, I am a big fan of cats, and all those cute cat patterns are from Margaret Sherry, my most favorite cross stitch designer.

You can see all of my projects here . [...]]]> http://www.sandykatkat.com/2008/03/past-cross-stitch-projects/ I haven’t been blogging much in the past year or so. Well, nothing major happened! I have not been as silly as before (so I hope), and I have not been traveling at all. So really there is nothing worth blogging about.

But I managed to keep myself quite busy at home, very busy [...]]]> http://www.sandykatkat.com/2008/03/what-i-have-been-busy-with/ I’ve been using log4j for years. Viewing those long files have been a pain no matter what projects I worked on.  It’s not the format itself, but just long long lines and even longer files…

Windows by default opens .log in NotePad, which isn’t designed to handle large text files.  Try opening a 5mb text file.  [...]]]> http://www.sandykatkat.com/2008/02/log-viewing-programs/