Allright! The first weekly meeting of the work knitters was an unqualified success. I got Jake, Melissa and Shannon started knitting and they all took to it very quickly. I told them to keep working on their garter stitch until next week, when we’ll meet again and I’ll show them how to [...]
So this morning I swing by the grocery store to replenish my supply of coffee. I bought the usual HEB blend, which is really good, and a very expensive bag of Ghiradelli double-choclate. With great anticipation of my morning caffeine fix, I walked into work and headed towards the break room. When [...]
My brain is running about eighty degrees too hot right now. I had a somewhat stressful weekend, and I’ve been debugging and re-coding stuff since I got home last night (with a few hours reserved for sleep). I’m making progress, but the stress is starting to show.
I’ve decided that I’m going to implement [...]
I’ve been seeing a lot of articles about the State Board of Education in Kansas this week. They’re currently in the process of changing their standards for science education so that the theory of evolution is accompanied by the theory of intelligent design. Even in the 21st century, some people can’t accept the [...]
I spent two or three hours last night tinkering with Snurf, trying to get it to work on my server for Thomas. So very close, and yet so far. I think I’ve narrowed the problem down to an issue on the XML-RPC client. It looks like it’s using slightly incorrect syntax to [...]
A few months ago, I discovered that the Internet Archive has an online library of live music recordings. Most of the bands that have contributed music are independant groups, but two very large contributors are the Grateful Dead and the Cowboy Junkies. I’m a Cowboy Junkies fan so I downloaded several of their [...]
A bunch of things are going on right now in my knitting and blogging worlds. Last night I went down to the Candlelight Coffee House/Wine Bar and started cranking on the sleeves for the Bastille Cables sweater. I think I’m going to have to re-do my work though, because the cabled section of the sleeve [...]
. . . and hopefully a beginning.
Something happened on Sunday which had not happened since Kelly and I split up. I knew this day was coming, and I knew it would hurt. But it’s not as bad as I thought it would be.
I was talking to her on the phone in the morning [...]