It would be useful at some point to map out the things that I want to get done and see if there are some keystone pieces of knowledge (or physical tools) that I could use to speed the process up ( Read more... )

Christmas went really well. I somehow successfully managed to split my time between some of my various families and houses (including performing the annual tree liberation with Mom), and ended up at Viridian for late night Pandemic ( Read more... )

I've said this before (a lot), but after the misery of trying to learn Rails from Agile Development with Rails, O'Reilly's Learning Rails makes my brain sigh with pleasure. Which is not to say that I know a lot about Rails now, but it's no longer the voodoo that ADR has tried to make it. I'm all for magic and flair, but not with code, guys. Never ( Read more... )

If I mourn anything, it's a loss of the possibility of the easy path. Easy isn't always bad...

Speaking of mourning - Princess passed away today. From Buckaroo Bob: ( Sweet Princess was the only pony/mini to bite a kid, to kick a kid, to kick a pony handler in both shins at once, to rear straight up with a three yr old on her back, and to lead the minis on an outing through an open gate, up the driveway and down the road towards Duvall (presumably for a mocha). She was the only one who, for sure, knew her own name. On the other hand, she gave a gazillion wonderful rides (often trotting) to smaller children who normally wouldn't have gotten on a horse. She was 32 inches tall at the shoulder with the persona of Black Beauty and deserves her own star on the pony trail of fame. )

Course I was epic. I managed to make myself sick a day or two before the course, and my cycle started just about then, but I was going on so much adrenaline that I didn't even notice anything except vague discomfort until I got back to the car on Sun afternoon ( Read more... )

Course I starts in a couple of hours. I'm really excited about it. And sick as a dog again. Sigh. But with luck, it'll be as beautiful out there as it's been around here the last few days, and I can just power through it.

Theresa is in town, so there's rumors of imminent drinking and singing. What say?

Went to hang out at Sureshot today to get some Rails reading done (what with having about two weeks to get up to speed with it for ClinicLink) and ended up having a really fantastic conversation with David instead. Later at the ARC FOM class I was sitting thinking about the conversation and pinpointed another thing that I was looking for from my ( Read more... )

I really like working with wood and am immensely grateful to Lawrence for finally getting me to start playing in the shop. Yay wood! Yay making things!

Went on a night hike on Cougar Mountain with Bryan last night. God I'd missed hanging out in the woods - it didn't really hit me quite how much until I was up there. It seems like most of the time I end up hiking, it's all about trying to get somewhere quickly and not about just hanging out in a place. Last night felt like walking home, and ( Read more... )

Seriously, guys? No one knows of a field with access to water and electricity and maybe a few evergreens in the general Lake Stevens area where one might be able to keep some ponies over the winter?