Crickets Chirping

03.28.2014

...work deadline that I've been working toward for the past month is "officially" this coming Tuesday...

... mostly finished except for little bugs that keep popping up...

... also have to figure out a way to make a database query between 14 database table that does what I want it to do. So there goes Saturday.....

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Walkies Update

03.16.2014

There hasn't been a diet update in a month - mainly because my weight has leveled off - but at least I've been keeping active. Gina and I still go on our evening walks around the school in Athens. My goal as of a couple of weeks ago was to try to reach a 20'/mile pace as I was normally walking 21-23'/mile. Gina took this to heart and sped up my stride.

Our average for the past week was 18'43". I was happy when we got close to 19'/mile. For 3 days we would average 1 second better than the previous day. Suddenly on Thursday we averaged 18'30". On Friday 18'00". That's just crazy!

Saturday Gina was busy so I took a longer route at a slower pace. Not as slow as I was used to, as I still averaged less than 19'/min (but just barely).

It's weird. I now like going out for a walk. I needed to clear my head after weeks of intense (for me) programming, so when I went for my walk I didn't take anything to listen to. I just walked and listened to the crunch of the gravel beneath my shoes. When I was done with my 4.5 mile walk, I didn't want to crawl into bed or scuttle around like an old man, I just continued with my day.

I'm starting to think that extra 120 pounds I was carrying around with my sedentary lifestyle wasn't good for me.

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Worked Out

03.15.2014

It took a week longer than I intended, but this afternoon I finally got to the point on my little work project that I can quit worrying about it, or at least not worry about big chunks of functionality not being there.

Granted, there are some small things that probably don't work quite like they should. I had been making lists of things as I found them and then fixing them later. My list of those fixes is all marked off now.

Friday was a bigger waste of time than I had hoped. I was planning on getting everything wrapped up yesterday, but I had to re-factor my code to preserve checkboxes and drop down lists when paging through a table (which doesn't resubmit the page back to the webserver). Once I got into the code I had no idea how it worked in the first place - one of those times of carefully balancing tweaks to get it working once. Now, I know what's going on and have some nicely commented code.

This coming week will have some proper testing of my code along with writing an email/cron script. I could write the script now, but I need test data for it. I think Monday will be a good day to make test data. Saturday is not a good day for test data.

Now for the first time in 3 weeks (maybe 4) I have some free time I don't feel guilty about. What to do?

#1 thing to do - DON'T WRITE ANY CODE. For at least a day. 'Till tonight, for sure.

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Puppy in a Hammock

03.05.2014

I've been busy with my deadline (and I'm almost going to make it - I'll be finished to the point I said I would be on Friday, but not by noon on Thursday), which was not how I originally planned to spend the last week plus my birthday, but in all I don't think I missed out on anything. This weekend I have a make-up-birthday date with Gina over some Mexican Eatin' and to finally watch Gravity.

In the interim, I promised Gina a picture of a puppy in a hammock.

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Man @ Work

02.26.2014

There will be surprisingly few updates for the next week as I work toward a deadline. Actual work. From my boss. That guy that pays me.

After noon on March 6, I might have time to post something interesting. Which is a shame because I've got a heck of a story about the fun of losing my CAC and how it's nigh impossible to get to where you have to go to replace the CAC without having a CAC to gain access.

I also have a story about getting screwed on my latest order of custom cards from China, but there's a good chance that'll get resolved by next Thursday.

In the interim, just keep refreshing this page to see if I've suddenly finished my work and have started posting spontaneously.

Actually don't do that, it'll needlessly eat up my precious bandwidth.

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