Every morning, while I’m brushing my teeth, I fire up the computer and check a number of websites for online comics. (Sluggy freelance should be 7 years old tomorrow. Feels like I just started reading that comic three weeks ago. Oh wait.) I get to soak my teeth in toothpaste in the time it takes me to read all of the ones I like to keep up with. But it takes awhile to download them all.
I’ve done some experimenting with Applescript today. I wrote a script that I can run that will automatically go to all the websites of all the comics I want to read. It even checks the day of the week to only grab the ones that should be new. Then I added in another step so that it also opens my mail program and checks my mail for me.
To top it all off, my computer should now wake up at 7:00 in the morning, even if it is off, and run this script. So now, when I get to the brushing the teeth portion of my morning routine, I won’t have to wait for everything to download.
These days I’m feeling more like programming my own stuff. It’s nice. I’ve taken to looking at my fractal planet generator program again. I’m playing around with it every so often.
I think this is because my D&D game keeps getting delayed, so I have time to play around with my other interests. I still have a lot I need to do in other areas, but I’m keeping busy.