My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
We took Ana to her new school tonight. We got to eat in the lunchroom and have some less-than-good pizza on those great partitioned lunch trays. We got a chance to see the classrooms that the kids will use and Ana had a nice time with the other kids. She’s really excited to go to school and she wanted to go back tomorrow. Wonder how long that will take to change!
I’ve moved the site to a new host with loads of bandwidth and space. I am going to keep this as my personal blog but I plan to start publishing more things on the site so please bear with me.
Mom called. She’s back in the hospital again, this time for red blood cells and magnesium. I’m not handling this well.
I had a great weekend. We headed down on Thursday night and stayed in Janesville. The next morning, we drove to Neal’s parents’ house where we lounged around for most of the day. Carissa had to go and have her nails done for the wedding and we had to go and make sure the tuxes fit. Friday night was the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner at a really nice Itallian place.
Mom’s back in the hospital again. She’s been there since Monday I guess. I wish she would have called sooner. I have to go out of town for the wedding this weeekend.
I visited my aunt and uncle (Anne and Bob) this weekend and I had a wonderful time. It was good to catch up with them. Carissa and I had a party to go to that weekend and we decided to leave a day earlier and visit with them since they were on the way. I’m very glad we did. The barbecue at Neal and Sara’s place was a lot of fun.
I was working on my PE disk tonight and I came across these tools that I totally forgot about. UnixTools is a collection of command-line tools that are ports of the most common and useful “Unix Tools” a typical Unix / Linux admin would run across. So now you can use “grep” in Windows, and you can stop confusing “dir” with “ls”! Download the files here (~2.7 MB)… the file is a self-extracting archive that will prompt you for an install path.
I’ve been spending a lot of time with Ruby on Rails and I love it. I love it so much that I hate ASP and PHP more than anything. Rails takes all of the crap about programming that I hate and gets rid of all of it. It lets me avoid doing all of the database-to-form mapping and validation stuff that I hate and instead lets me focus on the presentation and design of the site.
Mom says: I’m going for the bone marrow transplant after all. I keep hearing all these success stories and I figure I’m too young to give up. I just have to recover my normal blood counts and that won’t happen ’til at least August. In the meanwhile, I get platelet transfusions and shots that produce white blood and red blood cells I completely support her decision, but I am really worried.
Much of the “canned laughter” used on the soundtracks of sitcoms is said to have come from tapes that were originally recorded during broadcasts of “The Red Skelton Show” in the late 1950s and early ’60s. It is eerie to realize that when we encounter a laugh track (or “sweetening”) in a recent show, some of the people we hear laughing may have been dead for decades. Yet their guffaws go on forever.