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Saturday 13 December
2014
Saturday - Doing various inside chores:
vacuuming and picking up and washing, bills, shredding months of old
bills and stuff. It's time for the mid-month chores, but I sort of
skipped the beginning of the month stuff, so I'm keeping darn busy.
No
app stuff, though I did read up on how to provision the "new" laptop
with my old certificates. It sounds as though Apple has improved the
process since 2012, though to be honest I still expect it to be
horrible.
In the evening I watched some streaming stuff, and finished Book #50, How to Succeed in Evil, by Patrick McLean. Another book that has been on the Kindle for a while...
From Amazon's description: "How to Succeed in Evil
is the story of Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant. He tries to
help supervillains be more villainous. Or at least more profitable and
sensible about the business side of Evil."
The dialog is
pretty snappy, at least at first, and Windsors weariness at dealing
with yet another (evil) client who's business model revolves around a
"GIANT LASER IN SPACE" is amusing.
It sort of goes off track 3/4 of the way through, killing a favorite character off and veering into the "evil is relative" side of things. Oh well.
I
see I've spent more time reviewing this that I did the much better
Cibola Burn. Ah well, it's not like anyone pays me or that I have
anything special to add to existing reviews.
So, since this is Week #50, I'll put up the table:
Eh? What's that? Number 43 is what? LA LA LA.... NAH-NAH-NAH ... LA LA-LA.... I can't hear you!
Friday
- It did rain, a good rain, coming in around 3am and lasting for many
hours, then off and on during the day. So, good! No leaks yet,
and stuff that needs to be covered outside is mostly covered!
A rainy day, with cats looking outside.
The cats were just months old last winter, and I noticed that they were very interested in the new-to-them deluge outside.
Then they began to "chitter", and I looked again:
A sparrow, pecking at seeds in the rain.
I see that I temporally conflated some of the yard tasks in yesterday's description - the swamp coolers were removed on Wednesday, but only put away and covered on Thursday. There was a lot to do yesterday, by the time I went Xmas shopping I was dripping sweat, despite it's being, maybe, 60F outside.
I
worked on the app a bit, trying to get a requested card flip animation
to work in a certain wait: flip face-down, pause, flip face-up. I got
it going, but I'm still not clear on why it works the way it does. I
had to put a delay in the animation ( actually 2 extra blocks of 0.05")
, to let the 2nd part run, making it a 4 part animation. In theory the
2nd part could dispatched upon a confirmation message from the first, a
"completion block", so they shouldn't have been stepping on each other
as they (obviously) were. Ah well. I considered using a
"dispatch_after" command, but since it works, I won't bother.
Thursday 11 December
2014
Thursday
- Cool weather.
I
walked over to the college and checked with the lost and found - no one
turned in my binder. Well, no surprise there. So I headed over to
another building got my password reset, then logged in and registered
for a class. It's not until February, which is kind of a relief.
Then
it was home and chores, removing the two window a/c units, putting the
old windows back in, putting a cover on the big unit that stays
outside, putting another tarp over the woodpile, then mowing the back
yard.
I was supposed to go Christmas card shopping with someone,
and kept texting them, putting it off. Finally they showed up at my
house about 3pm, just as I was wrapping up, so we went down to Barnes
& Noble, and Target, got some cards and had dinner.
Even by 10pm it hadn't rained a drop though...
Wednesday 10 December
2014
Wednesday -
Another nice day, though with a high haze, and clouds in late afternoon.
Since the new garage shelves didn't dry completely overnight (some old
RustOlem enamel I had in the paint cabinet) I put them in the back
yard, under what little sun we had. It seemed to help.
I
also took the window a/c units out. There's a lot more light and it's
quieter with them put away. I do need to go get a new tarp to put over
the big unit outside, and another tarp from the firewood. Maybe I'll
pick up another 10 landscape blocks and finish off the little retaining
wall too - I've been meaning to do it, but just hadn't gotten around to
it.
Book #49 was
Cibola
Burn (The Expanse, Book 4), by James S.A. Corey. Usually
sequels are pretty awful by book #4, but this turned out to be good. I'll buy a sequel to it, if one comes out.
It
was another book that's been sitting on my Kindle for forever...
Went to lunch with S
and K. They
said they'd be going up to the bay area to visit family over Christmas,
so I'll be watching their place and pets.
I
was unable to reset my college password at home, so I'll walk over to
the college tomorrow and do it. Not a big deal, hopefully. First I'll
stop at the Lost-and-Found and see if someone turned it in. I doubt it,
but it's possible.
Tuesday
- Not much to say. Nice, if coolish, weather.
I
mowed the front lawn, with bag attached, to collect the mulch. It
wasn't as bad as some years. Sadly the greenwaste pickup was early by a
couple of hours, so I missed emptying the container. I'll just wait on
doing the backyard. The leaves are still falling there, though most are
gone.
I painted some shelves in the garage, but they are drying very very
slow...
Working on shadows for the app's draggable "stamps". I can't seem to
get them to do exactly what I want. It's this sort of crazy stuff,
where something that should take fifteen minutes turns out to take a
day, that really frustrates.
Monday
- Not much to say. Working away on various things app-related. Did a
bit of Xmas shopping....
Sunday
- A nice enough day. They have predicted another storm, arriving
sometime later this week. We need the moisture, so no complaints. My
friends are thinking of going down to San Diego and I warned them that
this will be a cold storm, with a decent chance of snow, starting
Thursday night.
Worked on the app a little, but am trying not to do too much. The basic
functioning is done, so now it's cleanup and detail stuff. S said she
was making an alternate graphical look for the interface, very basic
for people with vision issues, and decided that she likes it better
than the "good" interface...
I will need to sign up for classes later in the week, so I need to get
my password recovered for the college. It was in my lost notebook...
For dinner we went to Miso, it's what K wanted to do for
his birthday. It was good, as always, though I wasn't as hungry as I
thought.
