It's almost midnight, and I'm about to go to bed. I haven't been getting to bed at a reasonable hour recently - between work and the dissertation, my brain has been running at a gazillion miles an hour. I hope I can sleep tonight ( Read more... )

I've finished the programming. All four scenarios I'm going to use in the defense are working.

They are really neat (I think). Instead of having to call the programs from the client code, you essentially tell my system what you want to do, and it goes and finds a program that will do it for you. If the client doesn't like what that program is doing ( Read more... )

You (well. some of you) may wonder if I've disappeared ( Read more... )

I spent two days trying to fix a problem that turned out to be a lower case 'c' (it should have been uppercase) in a configuration file.

Just what I needed.

I am slowly slogging through things. Keeping the cat off the keyboard is a challenge, though.

I met with my dissertation adviser this morning, and realized that I'm in a lot better shape for getting everything done for my defense (in April) than I thought I was ( Read more... )

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One thing that should be emphasized to those who are considering having kids: Parenting is a life-time job, and it doesn't necessarily get easier when your kids hit adulthood ( Read more... )

I'm buying a new car. With air conditioning, no less.

It will be nice not to be dripping oil everywhere I go, though.

I was at Dragonfest, the local annual pagan festival this weekend, We are now supposed to call a "retreat", instead of a festival, now that admission is fairly open, as to not attract the "hey, let's party" element. Local means it's nearby, not that it's small. 700 people came this year, down from 1000 for the last few years. A good bit of the ( Read more... )

Ashley, my best friend in Boulder, is moving back to Chicago Thursday. As I'm flying out to Boston tomorrow, we had our last dinner together (for now) tonight.  She  said  "no tears - we'll see each other soon", but it's going to be hard to stave them off completely - I suspect for both of us.

She is planning to come visit in July, and I plan to ( Read more... )