Archive: May 2005
Tea
Last night’s bedtime reading was the Upton Tea catalog. Tea descriptions are so intriguing: tippy. golden, flowery … and what’s “Orange” about pekoe?
Some more tea reading:
Flowery, rustic, tippy, smokey
Tea Education
drinks - teatime
Tea Glorious Tea
Programming
Big Perl weekend. Still trying to wrap my mind around LIST contexts, and feeling pretty stupid. I re-wrote my shell script in Perl and added hooks to put in some pcli (if I ever figure that stupid thing out) and for the database interface, rather than trying to drag files over to a Windows machine.
It’s [...]
Color
The first coat of color is up in the living room, and my color-shy Beloved has proclaimed it too dark. Since he’s put up with screaming yellow and orange for several years, I figured the least I could do was magnanimously agree to replace New Born’s Eyes (Benjamin Moore 1663) with Heaven on Earth (Benjamin [...]
Fun
I just had my first totally fun day at work in months. Why? Most people were on vacation, I did absolutely no managing, instead I spent the day cobbling together a MySQL/PHP/shell script application to automate validation of our integration tests (which almost works).
The trouble with programming is that it is a deep and narrow [...]
Installing Apache and friends
A really useful guide: Install & Configure Apache with PHP, JSP, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin on Windows 2000/XP.
Ashamed
There may be a new car in my future.
I’ve got a four door sedan that I’m perfectly happy with, except that every summer either the airconditioning or the cooling system blows up. I feel like some kind of ecoterrorist; four years in a row I’ve lost all my freon due to air conditioning leaks. I [...]
Worth Reading
Some recent (or not so recent) posts that I think are worth reading:
Kim Allen on the topological human
LaurieLou on why people keep asking what happened
Mark Siegel on the equality of women
Browser Frustration
I updated Opera to 8.0. Some changes for the better, some not. Blogspot blogs now correctly display both columns (in 7.x, the content appeared on top, the navigation column appeared below).
Google Groups don’t work, though. I don’t think it’s a function of the Opera upgrade, they didn’t work in Opera 7.x either. For a long [...]
At the Kitchen Table
From Eldest Son:
After reading the Dialogues of Plato, Monty Python is much funnier.
From Youngest Son, on being asked if he wanted to come to my (secular) choir concert:
I would come if you people didn’t sing about God so much.
Concert Report
I went to work in the morning. I got home about 2 pm and took a nap. Unfortunately we’re having a sudden hot snap - two weeks ago it was snowing, yesterday it was 95 degF, and nobody’s ready for it. My bedroom is the hottest room in the house, and when I woke up [...]
Today
I went to work. I had my mid-year review (apparently they still like me). I went to the library for lunch, loaded all my books into my backpack, started crutching into the library, lost my balance and fell over backwards (onto the backpack, not my head). Unconcerned strangers walked by. Two concerned strangers helped hoist [...]
Taking it easy
I sewed buttons on my son’s concert shirt (you know those super-cheapie shirts where they don’t knot off the buttons, and all you have to do is tug and the whole thing unravels?), but that wasn’t super successful, between the lack of fine motor control and the slightly wonky eyesight.
Then I slept.
I’ve just taken a [...]
All right
Fuck this! Fuck this precipitous, disastrous descent into disfunction.
It’s like I can’t even think anymore. Everybody around me has speeded up double time, there’s no way to catch up.
iPod Generation
Living with the iPod generation is like living with a bunch of people who are hard of hearing.
Tantrum
I know exactly how stupid what I am about to write sounds.
Jody is right. I am doing too much.
I don’t want it to be too much. I want to do all the things I am doing. I want to help with the remodeling, to tile my own bathroom and paint my own walls. I love [...]
Remission bubble burst?
A bad day: vertigo, foot drop, exhaustion, a frightening inability to remain upright in a chair, a definite tendency to fly off the handle (somehow a work day ending with me in the program manager’s office at 5:15 telling him I’d like to slit my throat has a certain je ne sais quoi). Stay tuned.
And the remodeling goes on, and on
I’m messing around with colors a lot lately. I’m having a lot of fun with a book called Choosing Colors by Kevin McCloud: 64 sets of palettes, with example photos, and lists of actual paint colors, mostly Benjamin Moore.
I went through a bohemian decorating phase involving very bright colors on the walls, but they make [...]
The Reward for a Job Well Done
Is another job.
In the last several weeks I’ve assumed two new sets of responsibility at work, without actually getting rid of any of the old responsibilities. I used to think I had no free time; now I know I was free as a bird, then. Up until now, I just had my own little piece [...]
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