Reality Me

Category: Daily Life

Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.

  • Joys of home ownership

    Tonight, I am not a computer programmer. I am a washing machine repair man!

  • From the mouths of babes

    Evan: If I waste the batteries, daddy can fix it.

  • If…

    If you wake up on the couch and don’t remember why, you probably owe penance. Let the self-deprecation begin!

  • State of me

    i’m happy!

  • Rubber and Rain

    Changing a tire in the rain. This ought to set the mood for the day. Actually the air feels great!

  • jquery challenge of the day

    And now for something completely different…

    Let’s say you have a table that could have infinite rows. The table has an id but none of the other elements (ie. we won’t be traversing by id). The column to the furthest right of the row has an anchor tag in the for of an <a href> There are no other anchors on that row. What I want to do is when the anchor tag is clicked, have the <a href> text in the row above the clicked on turn bold and only that <a href>. Sample table:

    <table id="tbl">
       <thead>
          <tr>
             <th>col 1 label</th>
             <th>col 2 label</th>
          </tr>
       </thead>
       <tbody>
          <tr>
             <td>one</td>
             <td>sometext <a class="tt" href="#">link</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
             <td>two</td>
             <td>moretext <a class="tt" href="#">link</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
             <td>three</td>
             <td>differenttext <a class="tt" href="#">link</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
             <td>four</td>
             <td>othertext <a class="tt" href="#">link</a></td>
          </tr>
       </tbody>
    </table>

    So, if I click the link in row three, I want the text "link" in row two to become bold. This is using jquery and traversing this is kicking me hard.

  • I have a crush on her

    My love for Cathy is so large
    That in trying to carry it
    I find myself crushed.

  • State of Me

    I’m so stressed that I’ve maintained a headache for about two weeks. There needs to be some serious downtime in the near future.

    I cannot get my inner voice to be silent. I wish I could turn off my brain.

  • Best Wife in the World

    Cathy really knows how to lift my spirits. I’m so fortunate to have her as my best friend and life long partner!

  • From the mouths of babes

    Evan, 5 years old: "A rainbow is my favorite color."

  • Today is Labor Day

    Ergo, I labor.

  • It’s a gorgeous day outside!

    So I think I’ll spend this holiday weekend Sunday in the dusty windowless basement writing code.

  • Quiet!

    It’s too f’kin noisy.

  • They grow up so quickly

    My youngest has been to kindergarten 2 days this year. They were short days with only the teacher and 2 other students to acclimate Evan to the environment and the routine. On those days, I drove him to school and Cathy picked him up.

    Today, Evan went to school full time. He is very excited and insisted on riding the bus with his sister. He was first in line and I missed the picture because I was introducing Evan to the bus driver. Amy, 8 years old, is proud to be taking care of him, holding her head high as she shows him the ropes. This is her realm and she will be his guide. His same aged friend also rode the bus so I know I’m not alone in putting my baby in a big orange box and entrusting his safety to someone I don’t know. We do have a great bus driver! I’m excited for Evan. It’s cool to see him growing up. I just wish it happened a little slower.

  • What a lucky day!

    I just spilled a full mug of coffee all over my desk. Fortunately I rarely clean the desk so I was very lucky to have a large stack of project notes to absorb much of the coffee and prevent it from damaging the trinkets and clutter that is sitting around waiting to be thrown away. Now, that smear that used to be a ftp password, is that an oh or a zero or the letter Z?