Category: Daily Life

Finale

Great visit with the folks. Much conversation and many good eats were had by all. The kids were on exceptional behavior! The dog was obnoxious.

Dismantled a Dell Inspiron 700m and cleaned coffee from its innards. That’s a well built machine! Returned cleaned machine to client.

Went to Bilo and was an embarassment to my wife.

Time to cook dinner.

Act X – Clean self

Performance over. Guests arriving.

Encore complete.

Next performance: clean self.

On the playbook but with possible cancellations: bathe the dogs, rake the yard, clean up the driveway, cut the grass (implies preshow of fix the mower), clean all surfaces in the house, post the lottery results.

Act IX – Hardwoods in Living Room and Dining Room

Entailed brewing coffee. Walking the dog. Eatting breakfast. Changing a dirty diaper. So blog reading.

Encore: Hallway and bedrooms hardwoods.

Next act: Clean self.

Next performance – clean hardwood floors

Act VIII – Quality Time with Tommy / Dungeons and Dragons

The evening went relatively well. Tommy started out behind mindful but by the end of the night was talking non-stop.

Next: Intermission

Act VI – Hard woods

Cancelled

Act VII – Quality Time with Evan and dinner prep

Next performance – Dungeons and Dragons/Quality Time with Tommy

Act V

Noah and spent a great deal of time together making progress on his Smithsonian Motor-Works engine Pop gave him for his birthday. Much fun was had and I practiced (with limited success) not being too gruff and terse with Noah.

Next act – Clean hardwood floors in dining room and living room.

These have been hanging around in an open window for weeks!
Open Source Web Design
ColdFusion 101: Config Files A-Go-Go
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

I have comments on each of these but those are for another lifetime.

Here’s a board game called c-jump using snowboarding as a metaphor for programming and teaches programming logic through the game. Based on a real program. Bet I could find errors in the program!

It’s true! Our beloved Mahnamahna song from Sesame Street that has recently been repopularized in a Dr. Pepper commercial was originally written for a porn movie. Wikipedia tells the whole story!

I tried Google SMS from IHOP the other day and was only met with frustration. Perhaps I need to learn how to use it first.

This Windows XP Theme looks great but I can’t see spending $8.95 for a theme! Perhaps if I wasn’t stimatized into thinking the theme would mess up the OS.

Act IV – Sec Master HDD Error

Turns out this referred to the 10GB IDE harddrive that had been removed from the system but was still listed in the BIOS. Correcting the boot order to make sure that SCSI was a boot device and redecting the harddrives to remove the reference to the 10GB HD corrected the error. Once the IDE harddrive was returned to the system it would not boot. Moving the ide harddrive to the slave position with one of the CDROMs as master allowed the system to boot. I’ve had my friend’s computer for 4 weeks and feel terribly guilty. I am thankful that it will be returned tonight.

Next Act – Quality Time with Noah

I now understand why you should spend more than $25 on a toaster…