Hi, who are you?
Bizarre. I walked into my kitchen and said to the chap pouring a soda, "Hi, I'd introduce you to my friend, but I have no idea who you are." The men's group is on downstairs, Jess is experimenting with the three nozzle, two tap
Topic
Personal
A collection of 518 issues
Travel plans
Walking out of work for two weeks is a special feeling. Jess arrives tomorrow afternoon from London's Gatwick airport. I have yet to meet an airport I actually like, I think it's something in the design, the sinking feeling that your bag is heading for Bombay,
Random walk
Cats curled up in the same bed and snoozed together, Quantum licked the new kitten, all was happy and fuzzy for a while. Then she jumped on him again and started wrestling. Most undignified. Today was their first full day together. Photographic proof:
Why does FedEx feel the need to
Programmer's virtues
Laziness
The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great
Quantum Entanglement
Tangle has arrived, fresh from the operating table. There was a mass spaying and neutering on the entire litter in one go. I'd love to have seen the unconscious kittens getting a flea bath.
Quantum hasn't killed him, Tangle fights back. They're getting adjusted.
Leave!
Leaves. They're everywhere. I never really made the connection between the existence of three cottonwood trees twice the height of my house, and the sheer volume of leaf matter they produce, and then dump, all over the house, the garden, the cars, the path, the street, halfway up
Random bits
Chronicle has been seriously refactored, and now runs as a stand-alone executable JAR file. Huge improvement, start up time is well down, and a 0.25 release is in the works. This is what happens when Hubby gets into Extreme Programming in a big way.
Roxanne left with the
Time
The trouble with this work thing is that it takes up such a huge chunk of time. Next week is supposed to be my last week, but my boss said I'll probably still be there in October. This is good on the wireless networking and Xbox front, and
All things bright and sparkly
Oh frabjous joy! The Rio Grande catalog arrived yesterday with all kinds of shiny and sparkly things in it! Simulated Alexandrite, robin's egg turquoise, and the only Byzantine chain necklace I've ever seen for sale. It's a little alarming to see gold, silver, and
Waah!
I am trying to learn to touch type. I have gone from my usual 38-46 words per minute at 98% accuracy (temp companies test these things) to something more like 10 wpm and I feel crippled. Why on earth didn't they teach this at school? And me