Category: General Nonsense

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  • Up on-time. Have to remember to leave more time for shaving again.
  • Lunch at Pho Van in the Strip. The pho was tasty, the service was fast, and unlike some other pho restaurants in the Strip it hasn’t to my knowledge been shut down by the ACHD.
  • Picked up some paczki for Fat Tuesday from the Polish deli. Yum.
  • On the way to lunch a strange man who thinks comedy means speaking in a falsetto voice made fun of Justin’s Penguins hat.
  • On the way back from lunch a different strange man “accidentally” punched Justin in the gut.
  • Today was not Justin’s best day ever.
  • Guitar lesson was lots of fun. Learned some blues riffs and put them to “Steamroller Blues”.

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  • Up rather early, but had to fetch the laundry I had forgotten to get from the dryer last night. Missed my usual bus.
  • Heat not working at the office. Not good when it’s 25°F outside.
  • Looking more and more like I’ll have to do some GPIO fiddling to get my driver issue settled. I was hoping to avoid it but such is life.
  • Home. Emily made a delicious meal of tilapia and snap peas for dinner. Helluva cook, she is.
  • Practiced the guitar for an hour or so. Using the steel-stringed, yet crappy guitar. Hopefully that will build up my calluses faster than the really nice nylon-stringed instrument. Still deciding if I want to continue to the next level of lessons.
  • Played some StarCraft II with Jaos and Jeremiah. I’m getting pretty rusty at that game, but I suppose if I’m out of practice at something I’m OK with that thing being a video game.

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  • Up relatively early, to church. Music (and most of the sermony stuff) today was provided by Jim Scott, a prominent Unitarian singer/songwriter, as part of a promotion for the Unitarian musical he’s written (not making this up).
  • Home to change into dingier clothes then off to Wings, Suds & Spuds with Emily, Greg, and Jaos. Much was discussed and many wings were eaten.
  • Visited my parents. Performed requisite tech support (brought their computer up to Ubuntu 10.04 and fixed their printer) while watching most of the Indiana Jones movies on USA.
  • Remembered that one of the few things I miss about cable is turning the TV on to find a random awesome movie marathon. Also this is one of the reasons I got rid of cable. I get so much more done nowadays.
  • Returned home and putzed around on the computer. But at least the TV was off.

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  • Up rather late. Toasted waffles for breakfast. Mmmm.
  • Finally shaved my “winter” beard. I wanted to give my face some time to breathe before I grow my hockey playoff beard.
  • Spent the afternoon getting organized for our first “joint filing” tax return. Turns out that getting married was a sound financial move.
  • Dinner with Emily and Greg at OTB Bicycle Cafe. The portabella panini was excellent, as was the Tröegs Nugget Nectar that washed it down.
  • Finally saw The King’s Speech. Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth were terrific, but I don’t know about “Best Picture”. It didn’t have nearly as many explosions as The Expendables.
  • My face is cold.

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  • Up rather close to on-time. To work.
  • Bagel Friday, a sacred tradition in our office, was observed.
  • Read up on possible DMA/EDMA issues. Started to doubt my earlier conviction that this is where my driver problem lies. Turned my attention to the possibility that the data transmission timing is off from the get-go.
  • Drank a glass of East End Snow Melt at the end of the work day and suddenly realized that my stomach troubles were gone. Truly it is the nectar of the gods!
  • Leftover Chinese food for dinner followed by Exit Through the Gift Shop with Emily

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  • Woke up feeling much better. Actually made it to work.
  • Caught up on email. I’m on far too many mailing lists at work.
  • Driver issue continues to elude me. Could be a problem of DMA interaction. That means another 75-page PDF to read tomorrow.
  • Skipped the gym due to residual stomach issues, but walked half a mile to get Chinese food with my wife. I’m not sure if the math works out but I’ll take it.
  • As is my custom at Alpha 3 I upgraded my desktop at home to Ubuntu Natty (and installed gnome-shell from the Gnome 3 PPA to be fair).
  • Watched The Big Bang Theory with Emily while coding on a hobby project that will likely never see the light of day.

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  • Woke up, still feverish and with a nasty headache to boot. Back to sleep.
  • Woke again around 11. Fever and headache gone. Nausea mostly subsided. Decided to test my digestive mettle with a grilled cheese sandwich. No ill effects.
  • Spent most of the afternoon on the couch playing PlayStation while covered in cats.
  • Emily came home showing off her new phone. LG Optimus w/ Android. Rather nifty phone. The StatusNet app seems to work pretty well.

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  • Woke up a little late, feeling queasy. Decided to go to work anyway. Barely caught my bus.
  • Sent an email to driver customer in an attempt to sync up our environments and find why solution that works for me doesn’t for him.
  • Nausea continued throughout the morning. Decided to go home at lunch.
  • Laid on couch watching MST3K and Arrested Development (yes, finally) drifting in and out of consciousness. Tried to eat dry Corn Chex, but my stomach was having none of that.
  • Had to skip guitar lesson. Poo.
  • Finally took my temperature and found out I have a slight fever. This does not bode well. Emily’s plague week started in similar fashion.

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Knowing full well that writing is one of my many shortcomings while at the same time one of the skills a great programmer should posses I’ve decided to start a little exercise to make myself write at least a little every day. The inspiration for this exercise comes from Michael Meeks and his daily bullet-point summaries.

  • Awakened around 5:00 AM by a loud, booming thunderstorm. While I am a big fan of thunderstorms I would appreciate it if from now on Mother Nature was more respectful of my sleep schedule.
  • Bus stop wait was lovely. Humid but warm. Arrived at work, broke my fast with a stale bagel and some coffee. Plowed through email.
  • Received info from a customer about a possible cause of a bug in the driver I wrote for them. This was immensely helpful in (finally) fixing this bug. Sent a patch.
  • Lunch at Chinatown Inn. Delicious and speedy as always.
  • Began packaging work for another customer. This looks simple, which means it probably isn’t.
  • Received word that the patch mentioned earlier did not work as well on the customer’s board as mine (supposedly they are identical). This is one for tomorrow.
  • Home then to the gym.
  • Home again, sore, and practiced for my guitar lesson tomorrow. Still haven’t gotten over the whole “do homework only the night before it’s due” thing. At this point I feel it’s a hopeless cause.