Happy Birthday to kids, yet again! It's been a few days of birthday festivities in various ways, and today was their party with friends, at Jump On In for the third year in a row. A good time was had by all, possibly including no crying meltdowns from anyone for the first time. :^) I took a nice afternoon nap when we got home, and am maybe almost ( Read more... )

Happy April Fools Day! I didn't do anything tricky this year; I had one idea, if Q came to shotokan, where he hasn't been since his haircut, we could introduce him as a cousin of Junie's who's visiting for the weekend, and ask if he could sit in on the class for his age. He ended up not wanting to go, so there were no tricks, and that was ok. I ( Read more... )

The forecast for today called for 5 - 8 inches of snow, and then only 4, and then a mix of snow and rain, and, well, we live in New England, this is what we get. I noted that when they say "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb", the goes-out part apparently means "white and fluffy". :^p In any case, it seems to have snowed some, and ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to kids! It was not the happiest of birthdays, alas -- a very tough night for everyone. :^( At midnight, Q threw up; we (mostly Amy) cleaned that up, but he threw up again a little after 01:00, and while we were cleaning that up, the smoke alarms went off. :^( We got the kids out of the house, and walked around inside and outside ( Read more... )

More work, more April Project, also prep for a site release tomorrow, which should be pretty simple and straightforward, but I should really never say that out loud. :^p A couple of good April Project meetings. Went to Singh's for humongous amounts of delicious Indian food for lunch, skipped dinner, played a round of BRAWL with Q, he won, which he ( Read more... )

Oof, falling behind, what happened on Tuesday. Work, April Project, progress, a meeting with some other folks doing some similar things who have written some nifty tools that they'd really like us to use, but it's not entirely clear that their tools are a good fit for what we need to do, so some things to figure out there. Made tacos for dinner, ( Read more... )

Busy day of April Project at work, more good progress. A particularly good Curry MacCheese for dinner, I remembered to gather the other ingredients and start the other stuff heating up before the macaroni was finished boiling, which I sometimes forget, and then have to rush through at the end. The four of us played Eco-Fluxx after dinner, and had a ( Read more... )

The kids got a bunch of Star Wars toys from Grandma Betsy and Sean for their birthdays, and spent the morning mostly playing with those. Junie and Aunt Jo then did a bunch of setup for brunch, creating a "Bagel Fox" restaurant in our dining room (they've been studying Japan at school in various ways all year, and did an origami thing last week, at ( Read more... )

Ups and downs today, but more ups, so yay. Yesterday's problem with the April Project continued to defy comprehension this morning, but I eventually figured out what was going on. (Short version for geeky people: The Docker client retries if it gets a 401 in response to a GET, but not a PUT, so you can't run an Apache-fronted Docker Registry ( Read more... )

Tough day today, I was tired in the morning and tired all day and tired at night (thus the delay in posting this until now). I made some progress on the April Project, but got stuck on something somewhat bewildering that I'm still trying to sort out. I picked up my sister from Alewife at around dinnertime (she's on this coast for work, and visiting ( Read more... )