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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…

I opened the front door the other morning to see a St. Andrews Cross hanging in front of me. This guy to the tips of his legs is about the size of a silver dollar!

We also have some Orb-Weaving Spiders about.

Act III – Bathroom Floors

The bathroom floors have been cleaned. This involved removing all non-permanent objects (trashcan, toilet brush, step stool, baby bath, etc.) and sweeping then mopping. Side acts included making lunch for Amy, helping Noah identify spider webs and spiders, drilling a hole in the floor, staring at closet and deciding future design, scaring prospective renters with the dog, and fetching diapers.

Next Act – Solving “Sec Master HDD Error” on bootup of a system with SCSI drives.

Act II – Website Updates

Terms of Serviced added to a registration page complete with javascript to disable submitting the form until the TOS had been marked agreed. Addition of information into confirmation email. Changing a background color on a particular page. Creating a form that submits to mail server. Side acts included some blogging and phone conversation.

Next act – Clean bathroom floor

Act I – Kitchen Floors

Performance included removing non permanent objects like trash cans from kitchen. Trash was emptied from kitchen trash can and bathroom trash can and diaper pail while burning my first fried egg. Dog walked while taking trash out. Trash cans sanitized. Lottery results posted. 2nd egg put in frying pan. Kitchen floors swept. Dog walked while mop pail and bucket are retrieved and filled. After little progress noticed on fried egg, burner turned on. Floors mopped. Egg eatten.

Next Act – Brief updates to website

Today is going to be a bizarrely stressful day of balancing work, cleaning, and attention to the kids. I could easily spend all day simply cleaning. I could easily spend all day trying to clear some backed issues off my plate. The stress my wife will take upon herself at the thought of a surprise visit from my folks and their friends will undoubtedly bring us both to the breaking point multiple times today.

I begin today’s show with the kitchen floors…