Sets: (60 second breaks)
- 9
- 11
- 8
- 8
- 13
For a total of 49 pushups in 5 minutes.
First time I did over the minimum in the last (as many as you can) set, and actually I feel like I could do a couple more sets. Feelin pretty good.
“more curvy”
When the client tells you that they want it to be “more curvy”, and suggests that you go find some inspiration by perhaps watching some girls or something….
Okay, more curvy it is. Why do websites have to be box-based? yrr..
Too many languages!
My poor brain is starting to go a bit nutty. Too many things going on in too many languages!
- Working on a project in Ruby/Rails.?
- Working on WP themes and keeping up my PHP skills.
- Working on projects in Cocoa/Obj-C (Although that’s mostly? on hold..)
- Learning the SproutCore framework (lots of javascript!)
- And ? now I’m looking at Pyhthon and learning the Django for a possible upcoming project.
I’ve never minded working in different languages. The concepts are all the same. But I really do have issues with syntax and remembering what format different languages do. ? Do i need a foreach(i in items), or a for(i=0; i<items.length; i++)? And which initializer does this language/framework use? super()? init()? main()?
I need to find a better way to turn off/on different modules in my memory. Can someone please invent a technique for that?
Hello World!
Yep! We’re going to try this “blogging” business again. Let’s see how it goes.
new WP interface
So the new WordPress interface… impressive!
I’ve been working on my website design lately, so naturally I started thinking more and more about the blog I’ve been neglectful to maintain, and what that will look like after the transition.
The good news is that I can probably create the whole of my website through WordPress (this is one powerful bugger), but the bad news is that I will have to create the whole of the website through WordPress. Ugh. This of course means that I need to figure out how my mockup is going to work out in WordPress and decide whether any of my elements are even feasible.
Yay for having a techie programmer partner!
Besides all that, the interface for WordPress in general looks so much nicer with a lot less clutter, so I think I’ll be more apt to update this thing. I’m working on a coordinating Twitter theme, so I can just link to my feed right from my site, and it will all match and look mostly seemless.
Lots of random things have happened, lots of random things to talk about, so here we go with a few of them.
Josh and I received a beautiful sewing machine from his mom, and a just as beautiful french oven from my mom for Christmas. Pretty exciting stuff, although finances so far prevent us from doing too much with either.
Okay so this afternoon is an ADD afternoon. I’m ending this, but I’ll wander back here soon for another phase of blogging.
Testing
This is a test post from my iPhone while Josh fixes the bit that he broke on my website. Ha.
(clever subject here)
Been awhile. Working on various things. Knitting is a little lackluster lately, due to major things that need re-doing.
It’s hard to talk about all the things going on because I haven’t kept the blog updated. A lot of it will seem out of the blue.I’m thinking of making this blog private and just for me. I find that I don’t write in it because of how I feel those words will be taken, or how much or little I’d like others to know. Odd that I care more about that these days.
In any case, I want to update the blog (maybe I should start calling it a journal?), I just that more often than not the things I want to talk about are personal.
I think I might move the majority of the content on this blog to a more private location and attempt to maintain this blog in the current location as a “cool stuff I find that you might be interested in or thoughts I’m having about the world around me” type of thing.
We’ll see. In the meantime keep an eye on my Twitter feed, since I’ve been using that a helluva lot more lately.
Today should be interesting.
I got a call late last night from my mother. Apparently the woman who sold us the window blinds didn’t bother to call me after calling her to set up a date for installation. So my mom did, and didn’t tell me about it. Well, until last night anyway.
So they’re set to come some time between 2:30-3:30pm today, which pisses me off as an arrival time because at this late notice it’s harder for Josh to leave work early. Plus it means that a lot of the furniture moving needed to happen last night at like 11:30pm because I can’t lift it without Josh.
And now of course it’s today and I have a lot of cleaning and moving to do to get the place organized so that they have room to move around. We didn’t even get to moving the bed last night (we’re not sure where to move it), and I’m just supposed to hope that they come late enough that Josh is already home, or I’m supposed to call him when they get here and stall that window installation.In other news, I baked some real goodies last night. I started this cinnamon bun bread recipe, which is essentially a cinnamon roll in 8×8 pan form. I had all the baking done about half an hour after Josh got home, but you actually have to let the thing rest for 30mins before making/applying the frosting so I ended up putting that off until we were actually going to eat it.
See, I had this grand scheme that I’d have that done to snack on after Josh got home and then I’d start on dinner. While it was resting I started on dinner and promptly had to forget about it until afterwards because making dinner was so hectic. We had spinach/cheese lasagna. Mmm!
That kind of got complicated quick. I had to pre-cook the noodles, make a bechamel sauce, chop up all kinds of things and use the food processor to mix another sauce, blanch and chop the spinach… lots of things to do! It was totally fun though, and in the end it was very delicious. Totally worth the effort, and I think I’ll definitely make it again. I’m always a fan of food that I can make that tastes like you went out to eat to get it.
Granted, we had dinner a -tad- later than we would have preferred (7:30pm) but otherwise the evening was peachy. I ended up making that glaze/frosting for the cinnamon pan of doom and we had that for dessert. This morning Josh and I had another piece since anything with cinnamon is automatically okay as a breakfast food.
Today I make: more iced tea. I drank most of it yesterday.
Man, I suck.
Yeah, I know that it’s been awhile. I just don’t like posting here when I could hear comments back from friends/family asking me why I didn’t talk to them about it. I guess that’s why you wander off and don’t post for an extended period.
So, I’m here! Hard to believe maybe but it’s true. I’ve been using Twitter more and more often, and it should be simple to find me there, aside from the updates directly here on the blog.
I feel like anything I’d say at this point would be more of a catching-up for anyone reading the blog, but I’m not in the mood.
I’ve got a few people that are being particularly annoying lately, and some of them are plainly being idiots. Bah!
Wow I’m really not feeling this blogging thing. I can’t talk about what I’d like to anyway. I’m going to go catch up on phone calls for the morning.
Sure, I guess you can have some of my cake…
Okay, I’m having a WTF?! moment.
So far, as a yarn shop owner you’re bitched about because you’re only in the business because you like knitting or some such, which apparently pisses people off because it detracts from the premium level of customer service that they expect.
Then these same people (and believe me, there are lots of them) turn around and in another thread bitch because their local yarn shop owner is only in it for the money, and because of that they don’t know enough about knitting and don’t care about their customers or building any kind of knitting “community” around their shop because all they care about is sales.
I mean really. A month ago these same people were alternatively on both sides of the “should you be greeted as soon as you walk into the shop, or should they let you alone and let you come to them for questions” fence. Half get pissed because you’re too cheery and, in their words, “pounce” on them when they walk in, and the other half get pissed because they’re not greeted right away.
We’re not mind-readers. Sure, you can’t please everyone, but when so many are expressing these same sentiments it sounds a little less like the minority is speaking out and more like the majority.
Bah! Just give your local yarn shop employee/owner a break and make sure to tell them if they’re doing something wrong. If I hear about one more person who refuses to leave constructive feedback when they have a bad experience because they think they’ll be glared at and receive bad service in the future… I’m going to punch something.