Dear source code,

Please stop antogonizing me. Seriously, as in right now, before I end you.

Sincerely,

Your programmer

Dreamt I got my dissertation approved by my committee, despite having some rough edges. Woke up feeling really good about it.

Went down to the office & started the next batch of tests only to be greeted by a "critical flaw in solution" error message. Am feeling undeterred.

I'm presently trying to figure out why my research results are handing back crap answers. I'm guessing it's one line of errant code somewhere that's doing what I said rather than what I meant. I'd much rather be spending the last minutes of the weekend on something else, but I'm increasingly worried that if I no longer have the luxury of time to ( Read more... )

What with the new job & all, I've decided to move this journal out of public view. It's only a matter of time before my security through obscurity approach to anonymity fails. Plus it'll free me up to be more open about certain topics that I don't want to have to revisit with my students ( Read more... )

our wedding photos are up!

Today: first day of teaching classes
Tomorrow: getting married

We just finished our premarital inventory assessment. The sorts of things are a real grind for people who a) analyze everything & b) are impaired by lack of context. Or maybe just me, I dunno, you judge ( Read more... )

Got my car back from the shop ( Read more... )

The rest of my day ( Read more... )

A couple days ago we noticed a mark on the living room ceiling. It was casually discussed & we assumed one of us had made it in the process of unpacking, or perhaps our son got into some manner of trail leaving mischief ( Read more... )