Worst farm
Here’s the absolute worst farm in the world. I would think that a farm of about half an acre, all of which is tightly sandwiched between two thousand-foot-high cliffs, would be a difficult place to raise really healthy crops. Seems like the amount of sunlight would be rather severely limited, for example. But what do I know about big-time agriculture? Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone cam, taken at the model railroad museum in New Jersey, and part of my famous Train series.
Nice weekend, I suppose. LRN4 still seems to be as sick as ever, though, which is quite sick indeed. I may have mentioned it before, but I’ve never known her to be this sick for this long. In fact she’s never before been either this sick OR sick for this long. So to have them both happen at the same time is pretty bad indeed. She’s tried three antibiotics so far. The throat culture no longer shows any active bacteria, apparently, but she’s still in a tremendous amount of pain in both the throat and ears and now she’s dizzy and sleepy all the time. I suspect that the dizziness and exhaustion are a byproduct of the second antibiotic, which hasn’t gotten out of her system yet. Hopefully, that stuff will be gone within a few days and she can start perking back up. In the meantime, things are pretty tough around here.
On the positive side, neither LRN2 nor I have gotten whatever it is that LRN4 has. So far.
And it’s imperative that I don’t get it. Our cruise starts in just over three weeks. Since LRN4 has been sick for about three weeks and counting now, I don’t want to start with a cycle of this horrendous bug. We’d absolutely hate to have to miss the cruise.
Which I’m getting excited about. It’s not exactly like I’m not getting enough time off from work right now, but I’m still excited to be on the ship for a couple weeks, tour around the islands again, take some fun classes (but probably not ukulele lessons this time – sorry!), eat some really great meals, see a few shows, and generally enjoy lounging around. In a totally different place from here. Not that I’m not enjoying lounging around right here as well.
Anyway. Efforts continue on learning Visual Studio C++. I’ve finally gotten to the part of my wretched book that actually teaches how to program the Windows GUI. There are multiple ways of doing it and . . . wait a second.
Okay, I’m back. After doing just a modicum of research, I’ve decided to dump what I’ve been studying for more than a week (C++/Microsoft Foundation Classes) and switch to the more modern tech (C#/.net). I should have done this from the very beginning, but I thought I needed to be compatible with legacy libraries. But you know what? I don’t have to and I’m not going to. It’s become painfully clear that MFC is really outdated, so I’m starting over and I think I’ll still become productive more quickly anyway. And the big bonus is that I get to jettison that idiotic book I was reading. After 14 chapters, that is.
Anyway. I’m full of new-found enthusiasm! I’ll get started first thing tomorrow (well, I exercise first thing and eat breakfast second thing and shower third thing, so I’ll get started fourth thing tomorrow, although that sounds terrible, doesn’t it?).
Not much else to report today. LRN2 and I had dinner at Pei Wei the other night and enjoyed it very much. I had dinner at Roberto’s (my favorite old San Diego taqueria – I can’t tell you how excited I was to discover there’s one right around the corner from our house) last night and LRN2 and I went to Cafe Rio tonight. So I’ve had plenty of fast food lately. Not too good for my Atkins-based way of eating, but I’m holding on – finally down below 200 pounds, which represents a 35-pound weight loss since the beginning of October. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. Twenty more pounds to go, probably after LRN4 heals up and we start eating normal meals again.
Real Soon Now: Rubio’s. I love Las Vegas. They have everything here!
And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: meatball embezzlement!
See you tomorrow.