My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
Mark at Rock ‘n’ Roll To Go held his End of Summer Bash today. It was a great outdoor get-together. Many of the cool inflatable attractions were out for the kids. Ana had a great time on the Titanic slide and the Ironman obstacle course. It was a great chance for Mark to thank the Eau Claire area, but it was also a chance for him to show off a bit.
Things have been pretty crazy around here lately and I've been meaning to write this post. Ana had her first day of school on September 1st, 2005. As you can see from the photo, she was really excited to go. She's been doing the school thing for a full week now and she still likes it. She enjoys her teacher and seems to be making some new friends. Kids grow up quick.
I’ve been spending time in the Rails community helping out fellow developers with their problems. I’ve spent a few hours a night in #rubyonrails on IRC.FREENET.ORG. It feels really good to help others figure out their problems. On a related note, I have an article up on the Rails Wiki that shows how to set up a development environment using Eclipse. You can find that here.
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.