Fresh Code

The whole house was up and getting ready early this morning. So much activity! I talked with Lauren, Jordan, Natale and Jayde before they each left for school/work and then grabbed my tea and got going. Andrew hasn’t been feeling well so he was dragging this morning. Lots of coughing, sneezing and he also had a headache. He still pushed through and started working.

I tried working on my project but it seemed my entire day was full of interruptions. Wayne was geared up and isolated in the yellow room removing the walls so we left him alone. Andrew was too sick to manage making lunch and wanted a burrito so I ran to get that, Lauren was having a horrible day so asked if I could heat up some food for her to grab, Jordan needed a ride home. I messaged Peter and told him I wouldn’t be making our afternoon meeting and he was fine with that so I didn’t stress too much. I can try again tomorrow.

Today was the Burning Man Directed Group Sale of tickets. All three of us signed up to purchase some so we can get enough tickets for the Playa Post Office. Our friend Nick is the organizer and had a terrible time getting enough tickets for his group. Maybe people aren’t as into Burning Man this year but we had no trouble getting two tickets each. It was weird. I don’t think we are going to be able to attend though. We are planning a two week road trip to Calgary so Andrew can participate in another OpenBSD Hackathon and that’s in July. I’m hoping to have a full-time job by then and asking for two weeks in July and another two weeks in August is probably not the best idea. We’ll get back one of these days though.

Today I learned that organizers would rather cancel an entire event than exclude a speaker that has been accused of a heinous crime. Seems common sense not to invite someone to speak at an event who is under current investigation.

Today I got right to work on filling in my project structure. I set up the model but didn’t write a migration script just yet. I wanted to get the views built out but have to wrap my brain around what the views actually need to do. Peter sent me a sample POST request to get me started. That’s about the extent of my day. Lots of time spent on very few tasks. I guess this will improve as I learn and retain more. I hope!

Tonight was dinner night and we were having meatball subs. Wayne was tired and dirty from a day of more demo. He did find treasure though when he took down the false ceiling in the yellow room. The old fixture was still there! He went to take a shower so I got dinner started. Alice soon showed up and took over thank goodness. I had made some soy mozzarella cheese a couple of days prior knowing meatball subs were on the menu so that was handy. Tonight we had Dale, Miri, baby Michael, John, Spencer, Lauren, Sean and the six of us. The subs were great!

Today I learned that I screwed up on booking my flight to Montreal and won’t get there in time to talk at the Pycon Education Summit. My talk proposal wasn’t accepted or anything but now I’ll never know! At least I won’t have to worry about flights for next year I guess.

Andrew wasn’t feeling well so he slept in. That completely messed up Wayne and I and we slept in as well. Needless to say I hurried and made some tea and got right to work. It was another foggy morning but not cold enough for a fire.

I worked on filling out the project structure by creating all of the directories and files I’d need and then I poked around the existing library trying to get a better sense of how it all fits together. It still feels big with many parts and pieces but I’m starting to see the flow.

I had a Vidyo conference with Peter in the afternoon just to go over things. It helps a lot to talk stuff over often. We talked about names and how we envision the user experience. I hope he won’t mind me having tons of questions all the time!

Alena and Dave were bringing the kids over in the late afternoon so I hurriedly finished up the JQuery stuff I was working on. It’s SO interesting! Once the kids showed up, I was done working for the day.

We played until it was time to make dinner. I made something kid friendly so we had not-chicken strips, tater tots and asparagus. They all ate plenty so that was good. After dinner Tiberias picked a movie. He wanted to watch Frozen. I guess they hadn’t seen it before because both Tiberias and Rialla started crying when the snow monster appeared. Ooops! I wasn’t sure if I should turn it off or have them watch and see everything be resolved. We talked about it and decided to keep watching. Anya is too little to care much about the movie so we just played while the other two watched. The movie ended just about when Dave and Alena returned. The kids were super tired and ready to go home. It was really nice getting to watch them!

Today I learned how to use JQuery to control drawing on a canvas. Cool!