The house was freezing but I managed to get out of our warm bed anyway. I completely ignored my phone and laptop so I could do a bit of exercise. I still haven’t figured out how to fit drum practice into my day but I’m getting there. I showered and dressed and then checked my email. Still nothing from Urban Airship but it was still pretty early.

Wayne and I decided to take care of errands early so we could get on with our day. We were out of honey and I was making cornbread for dinner. We don’t generally consume honey since we are vegan but the poor bees are dying off like crazy these days. I don’t think most people realize the impact this will have on our food supply. Anyway, we have decided to support a local bee keeper, Glen Andresen, who has spent the last several years trying to breed a queen bee that is able to withstand our Portland climate. He is very good to his bees. He keeps the hives on scales and makes certain to always leave them plenty of honey for their needs. We feel pretty good about supporting his endeavor and the honey is incredible.

So we ran to the bank for cash then headed to Glen’s house, grabbed honey, stopped at Alberta Coop for some groceries then stopped at Fred Meyer for the rest of our dinner ingredients. I had of course been checking my email a LOT but still nothing from UA.

I finally got on my computer and started looking at more of the code for my bug. I’m trying to change things so that a survey does not display if there are no questions. The New Survey form has a checkbox to make the survey active so I want to change it to error when trying to check the box if no questions were added to the survey. That way it won’t show up even if it is created. The strange thing is that when creating a new survey there is an initial page where the user types a name for the new survey. There is an active checkbox here and then a Save Changes button so the survey can be marked active before a user even gets a chance to add questions. I decided to get rid of that checkbox first. Easy! Except that when I removed the ‘active’ field from the form the entire site puked. Hmm….I put it back and things were fine. Removed it again….puke. The error was so weird. “Unknown field [‘a’, ‘m’, ‘e’, ‘n’]” Amen? Huh. I added another field called “blah” and it threw an error. “Unknown field [blah]’. Oooooooh! Duh, it was looking at a tuple with only one item as an array so taking the remaining field “name” and breaking it into an array of [‘a’, ‘m’, ‘e’, ‘n’]! So I added a comma and a space and all was well. Grrr! But yay! I told Andrew about this dumb thing that took me too long to figure out and he laughed and then said I should just put the field in brackets instead of (name, ). That makes sense. So yeah that’s about all I accomplished on the bug for the day and that wasn’t even the complicated part. Still nothing from UA.

It was dinner night and I didn’t want to eat too late so I went in the kitchen and started making the cornbread. It’s SO good vegan or not. I made a lot since we would have a crowd. We were having a new thing, Green Chile Enchilada Soup. It sounded pretty easy and it was. Equal parts enchilada sauce and veggie broth, rehydrated soy curls, chopped green chiles, corn, onion, seasonings and rice.

Meanwhile my internship offer finally arrived! It was official! They wanted me! I was so excited! But…….it really overlaps with OPW a lot. How can I possibly do both? This will probably never work. Ugh! Now what do I do? I know! Panic! That’s a horrible idea and won’t solve anything so I freaked out instead and messaged Lukas. She knows stuff about things and would know just what to do! I didn’t know if I would hear back from her right away but I felt better just knowing she knew what was going on.

Alice came over and made salad and soon everyone started to show up. We had the five of us, Taylor, Delaney, Jason, Alice, Spencer, John and our neighbors a couple of blocks down, Maggie and Emily. They had been wanting to come but had other obligations on Tuesday nights but those were over now. It was wonderful having new neighbors! We laughed and talked for quite some time. Maggie said it was past “lesbian bedtime” so she and her wife headed home. Everyone else slowly filtered out and then it was our bedtime as well.

Today I learned that lesbian bedtime is 21:30 and that freaking out and panicking are probably the same thing.