Today was a very quiet day. I spent a lot of time looking at form validation documentation. I feel like I have so much to learn and that it takes me so long! Oh well I can only do what I can do.

Alice wanted to go to Goodwill and that sounded like a nice distraction. I had two big bags of stuff to donate anyway. We drove over and it was packed! The Goodwill stores in Portland tend to have pretty decent stuff. I’m always looking for small antique bowls. I didn’t find any today but i found a nice dog bowl for Lily and some brand new toe socks for Lauren.

We went to this really cool eclectic house turned store nearby. I had driven past it many times and always wanted to stop in. There was SO much stuff there inside and out. It took several times of walking through in order to see what was there. I found a beautiful stained glass window but it was ridiculously expensive. Why do I have to like nice things?! Alice got a cool butterfly house though so now she will have houses for butterflies, bats, bees and birds in her yard.

Another store we really love is Rerun. They were open for another hour so we made our way there. I looked and looked for something I needed but nothing really caught my eye. Alice found some scarves, earrings and a bunch of cds for Jason. It was getting dark and we had been gone a while so we went back home. Jason and bug were at our house so we showed the guys our stuff and talked about dinner tomorrow. They went home and I went back to form validation reading until it was time to go see our friend who was going to be in Portland briefly.

We’ve known Ed for about four years now. We met him when we were in New York for the Next HOPE conference. At the time he had done a graphic novel series called WIZZYWIG: Portrait of a Serial Hacker so it tied in really well with the conference. He gave a great talk about what prompted him to create the series. We went to dinner a couple of times and hung out and generally just had a really nice time. We remained friends afterward and see Ed whenever we go back to Pittsburgh which happens to be twice per year for Andrew’s work.

Ed has been working on a new series that has become pretty popular called Hip Hop Family Tree and is on a West Coast tour. He originally started drawing the strip and posting one weekly to Boing Boing. It went over so well that he got a publisher and a book deal out of it. Now he’s a NY Times best selling author! We were very much looking forward to seeing him in our part of the world.

We picked up Taylor and then went down to Bridge City Comics on Mississippi. We planned to get there just before he was done so he could sign our copies of his books and then we could all go to dinner.

We went to Sweet Heareafter for dinner and it was delicious! We hadn’t eaten there since we were in Portland house shopping. Ed got some sort of bowl, Wayne and Taylor got the Jerk Tofu sandwich, Andrew had a Buffalo Sub and I had the Bahn Mi. Great food! We had a nice time catching up before taking Ed to the Kennedy School where he was staying.

Today I learned that Ctrl-b is the default prefix for Tmux.