- Up early, hopped on a 61 to make a quick detour at Pitt.
- Tried once again to get information about the Order of the Engineer ceremony. Was given a name but the person in question was conveniently not in the office at the time. Sent an email, no response yet.
- Made little progress with the audio driver. I’m getting the feeling that I am too reluctant to ignore documentation when it doesn’t match reality. Tomorrow my plan is to print out said documentation then proceed to burn it and ignore it.
- Dinner at Elbow Room in Shadyside with the Foodburgh Meetup. Had a pretty good turkey burger with onions soaked in hefeweizen along with some sweet potato fries and washed it all down with Flying Dog Garde Dog.
- Walked with Emily over to Oh Yeah! for some ice cream, then headed home.
22 March 2011
- Up; to work.
- Enabling the FIFO in my driver helps, but not quite solves my problem. Also the FIFO behaves in ways contrary to the vendor’s documentation. I’ll have to send ask said vendor to clarify where (presumably) I went wrong.
- Attempted lunch at NOLA in Market Square defeated by ridiculous line. Oh man did it smell good in there though. Chipotle was the consolation lunch.
- Home then to the gym in an attempt to make up for the delicious yet gut-expanding dinner from yesterday. Will probably need to go back (without eating in the meantime) to fully work it off, but progress is progress and the food was damn-well worth it.
21 March 2011
- Up late. Missed the bus. Had to catch a 61. Hence, late to work.
- Made decent progress on the audio driver. Added support for a buffered FIFO and now just have to tweak it for performance.
- Ducked out a little early to pop up to Sarver and the Evolution Grille for a five-course dinner paired with beers from my friends at Milkman Brewing. The dinner and the beer were both wonderful and well worth the 45 minute drive. For posterity’s sake (and to make some of you jealous) here are the courses we enjoyed:
- Soft pretzel made in-house along with an Imperial Irish Ale cheese, served with the Imperial Irish Ale
- Pear salad with goat cheese, walnuts, and raspberry ginger balsamic vinaigrette served with Honey Pear Ponyo Wheat
- Jameson Lamb Stew with a puffed pastry shamrock served with Mean Ass Hank Irish Whiskey Barrel IPA (this might have been my favorite) (also I’ve met hank and he’s a sweetheart of a pit bull)
- Veal cutlets dusted with cardamom and served in an orange glaze over jasmine rice and brussels sprouts; served with Kolkata Kolsh
- For dessert, Stout ice cream (made by Milkman) with almond biscotti served with Hello World Oatmeal Stout (their first beer in case you hadn’t guessed)
- I am going to the gym so hard tomorrow.
20 March 2011
- Up and to church to see Emily play. They played a sweet tune written by Mr. Rogers for his birthday.
- Watched the Pens lose.
- Emily watched Michigan lose.
- Finally finished the first season of Arrested Development. That was a great show.
19 March 2011
- Up late. Showered and headed out the door.
- Quick haircut, then out to my parents’ house to install their multifunction printer. Support for Kodak’s printers on Linux leaves a little something to be desired. Never did get the scan function working right.
- St. Patrick’s Day party at Mike’s house. Drank a bunch of beers I’d never tried before. Unfortunately drank enough of them that I don’t remember any of their names. Also the corned beef was delicious. It’s too bad Emily gave up meat for Lent…
18 March 2011
- Bagel Friday at work. Always a good time.
- Work continues on the audio driver. Made some progress, but work continues.
- Lunch at DiBella’s in Market Square. Really tasty subs but the ordering->paying->receiving your food process is pure chaos. Will be returning in any case.
- Another area in which work continues is we’re trying to empty the keg of East End Snow Melt in the kegerator. I fear we bought too much. Each of us did our part as best we could.
- Home. Dinner on the deck with my beautiful wife enjoying the beautiful weather before it turns cold again.
- Watched Titus from Netflix. Wow is that a weird movie.
17 March 2011
- Happy St. Patrick’s Day (with the usual caveat)!
- 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.
Kate Gronemyer: I like you but I wish you would stop talking for a minute: Introverts exposed
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16 March 2011
- Up surprisingly early. Off to work.
- Bossman bought donuts for the office. Good start to the day.
- No discernible progress on audio driver issue. Less good continuation of the day.
- Home. Ordered Chinese food and finally fixed the damn bathroom sink, though not without incident.
15 March 2011
- 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.