Up and at ’em. To work in my fancy Donegal Gaelic Football jersey.
Traditional Irish lunch of chicken with broccoli. In my defense, the chicken was probably boiled.
No fortune in the fortune cookie. This is important. This means something.
Very productive call with the chip vendor about my audio driver. Turns out I’m on the right track with my current solution. I just need to get it working.
Met up with some family at the Getaway Cafe in Castle Shannon for St. Patrick’s day festivities. The Corned Beef & Curry Band played and much Guinness was consumed.
Up slightly late, but Emily was kind enough to give me a ride to my bus stop. To work.
Found out that all the work I did adding GPIO MUXing to my audio driver had no effect. Slightly miffed and now stumped to boot.
Meanwhile packaging tasks are piling up. Need to just take a day or two and bang those out.
Went to the final guitar lesson of this set. Played some 12-bar blues and learned about hammer-ons and pull-offs. I’ll probably continue with the next set of lessons.
Put off fixing the plumbing in the bathroom for tomorrow as we are both pretty tired. Watched some Big Bang Theory instead.
Not much accomplished at work today, I’m afraid. Everyone appeared to be in a drunken stupor. I blame Daylight Saving Time.
Home, ate some Pi Day Pie that Emily made yesterday. Scrum-diddly-umptious. Pumpkin.
Plumbing project to replace the trap under the bathroom sink went the way of most plumbing projects. Multiple trips to Lowe’s later and we still have to brush our teeth in the kitchen.
Great breakfast of pancakes and bacon made lovingly by my wife.
Played around a bit more with LMDE. I was initially disappointed with how stale some of the packages are (it’s based on Debian Testing) but once I discovered apt pinning all was well.
Went to a friend’s birthday party and arrived to find she’d just gotten engaged. It must be spring because romance is in the air.
My parents bought us patio furniture as a joint early birthday present.
As thanks we took them out to dinner at Blue Dust. Dad reminisced about when that place was a “shot and a beer joint” sitting conveniently at the entrance to the Homestead Works steel mill.
Took Emily out to see The Adjustment Bureau. Good movie with an interesting premise, but it seemed too short to me.
Finally managed to get Linux Mint Debian Edition running on my laptop. The secret was apparently using the usually dormant Windows (gasp!) partition on Emily’s computer to run some SanDisk software to remove the weird read-only partition on my flash drive. LMDE definitely boots faster than the traditional Ubuntu-based versions. I’ll have to play around with it a bit more before I can say for sure which I prefer.
Up early, to work. Apparently the apocalyptic weather forecast was slightly exaggerated.
Today was my day to buy bagels for the office. I performed that sacred duty with the proper reverence and without incident.
Audio driver still not quite right. Sent a patch to the customer to try along with their fancy-pants logic analyzer (the board they sent doesn’t have the right signals broken out to use ours).
Home for our thrice-rescheduled Impromptu Zombie Party. Many zombies were killed (as were a few humans). Much beer was consumed, and I dare say a good time was had by all.
Continued wrestling with GPIO problem. Got it sorted, but there still seem to be some corner cases to deal with.
Greg stopped by on the way back from a customer visit and he, Andy, Justin, and I had lunch at Madonna’s. Tough to find a better burrito Downtown.
Picked up a growler of East End Drayman’s Heather Ale and a bottle of the beer they can’t call Eye Opener Coffee Porter after work.
Fake meat tacos for dinner. Delicious.
Still wrestling with the LMDE installer. Turns out the only flash drive I have that’s big enough to hold the installer has some bizarre partitioning scheme on it that chokes unetbootin. The DVD drive in my laptop is way too flaky to install from a disc so the great struggle continues.
Spent most of the day adding some fancy GPIO and muxing trickery in an attempt to solve a driver issue. Got it most of the way there but it hangs under certain conditions.
Hit the gym after work.
Attempted several times to install Linux Mint Debian Edition on my laptop, but after one false start and some trouble with the install media I had to put it off until tomorrow.
