morrowlife

Here’s a rare self-portrait. Don’t I look Greatly Artistic? I’d sure like to Photoshop out that railing, though. That would violate my Prime Great Art Directive, though: post ’em like you shoot ’em. With some rare exceptions to eliminate old-camera-induced spots and things. This picture was taken during the campout we took during the month before my Lasik surgery. Hence, the extremely rare (non-reading) glasses view.

Anyway. Late night already. I’ve been working on Waterlogged (not Waterlogger anymore – as I may have mentioned, I’ve been overruled on that issue by my partners). I finally have it ported to Larry and working mostly right, with lots of assistance from Loyal Reader Number One. There are still some bugs that are either Larry’s fault or LRN1’s fault – don’t know which yet. Either way, we can start getting them worked off now. I got the new domain set up on Larry (although at the time of this writing the worldwide DNS hasn’t moved it over from GoDaddy yet – by the time most of you see this, it should be done) with a placeholder page. Now we need to figure out how to make Waterlogged go live with Apache in that space. Tomorrow night, I hope.

Otherwise a normal day. I need to take the train tomorrow, although I’m sorely tempted to drive the Miata. I believe I know what its overheating problem is, and it can be worked around by keeping the A/C on. That saps the power big-time, but at least it can be driven. Need to decide which transportation mode Real Soon Now.

I’m sleepy and need to rest, so that’s it for tonight. See you tomorrow.

Here’s a gratuitous picture of Loyal Reader Number Twelve in her car seat. If that won’t bring in the Loyal Readers, I don’t know what will.

Short shrift tonight. It was Wednesday meeting night and it’s already nearly 10:30 and I need to get up early, as usual, so I don’t have much time to write. In fact, everybody else seems to be going to bed about now, putting the old pressure on me even more.

The Big Meeting at work went fine. We got to see several schedules we hadn’t been able to pry loose from various people before, which was good. There’s a lot of work to do as a result of the meeting, but I think we’re more organized tonight than we were this morning.

Otherwise an uneventful day. Got up, got ready, drove to work for two hours, worked, drove home for an hour and forty-five minutes, ate, chatted with various Loyal Readers, went to my church meeting, met, went home, had a little dessert, and blogged. Bedtime is next.

About the chat. Loyal Reader Number Five has been offered another job. It seems like something she’d really like to do, but the money isn’t what she needs it to be. Still, there seem to be possibilities there, so she doesn’t know what to do. Sigh. These things are never obvious, are they? She has another interview at a similar company in a day or two, and they may be more amenable to paying her what she’s worth, so I recommended she not make any commitment to the other place until after she talks to them. Good luck with your decision, LRN5!

And it’s bedtime. See you tomorrow.

Here’s an abstract study of water going over rocks. Feel the love.

I still have a bunch of Great Art on my camera, including all my pictures from the recent campout. Maybe I’ll get them downloaded tomorrow. Or the next day. Based on the above picture, I think I’d better hurry.

No post yesterday. It seemed so much like a weekend day that I forgot all about posting. No regrets, either.

Great holiday weekend. We had people over on Saturday and Monday (enjoyable), Loyal Reader Number One and I worked on his car (no fix, alas – it has to go to the shop again), LRN1 and I worked on my car (new thermostat but no overheating fix, alas – I need to install a new thermoswitch and then it goes to the shop if that doesn’t do the trick), LRN1 and I worked on Mousey the Junkbot (discernable progress, including a totally working breadboard version of the electronics!), I worked on Loyal Reader Number Five’s laptop (changed from non-working status to working perfectly, OS updated, and SpinRite verified!), and . . . that’s about all I can remember right now. But isn’t that enough?

About Mousey. The totally analog electronics work just fine, in spite of the fact that I can’t quite figure out why. There’s a subtlety in the circuitry I don’t quite understand, but I’m figuring it out. Anyway, I’m seriously thinking of upgrading it to digital control after I get the analog version running. I don’t know if I want to build a second ‘bot or just upgrade the first. I’m thinking a single-chip Arduino reading the light sensors and collision switch and driving the motors through a relay. Sounds quite doable and maybe even more interesting than the analog version, since it would be totally programmable. What do you think, Loyal Readers? Or do you even care?

My alarm clock freaked out this morning. It’s one of the Atomic Clock things that phones home all the time to keep the time accurate. It’s supposed to switch into and out of Daylight Savings Time automatically also, and it seems to have done so last night, which makes absolutely no sense. I’m having a Crisis of Confidence in the thing now, so it’s back to the alarm clock store. And this time I won’t be such an easy sell. I’m looking for something really easy to use, not too expensive, and really cool. Let me know if you have any ideas. In the meantime, I’m switching to my old reliable Seiko travel alarm. Whose batteries are of unknown age. So I may not be able to rely on it either. It seems to be working fine right now, though.

Big meeting at work tomorrow. We have a bunch of folks coming in from our partner companies and the gummint, and we’ll be strategizing, positioning ourselves for the future, leveraging our synergies, etc. It will take most of the day, while regular business goes on all around us. Ought to be enjoyable.

Time for dessert. See you tomorrow.