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Had a somewhat shitty weekend. Most of it was work related; due to a deadline decided Friday, we had to change priorities to get a release out by the end of the day today. This wasn't a huge deal for me, since I finished most of my chunks a week or so ago... But integration time always finds new bugs, and this was no exception, so i was sort of "on call" all weekend. So not only do i not get credit for working all weekend, i had to work all weekend anyway. Ah, software development.

On the plus side, i made done for the family several times this weekend successfully, including breakfast in bed for Jess on mother's day. I also had my first breakfast bacon at home in a long time. And man oh man was it tasty. I actually got to a point when i couldn't eat any more bacon: i made about a half pound, and no one else wanted more than a piece or two, so I ate what I figure was probably about a third of a pound on my own.

Did some API development for openstreetmap yesterday afternoon, as well as watching an hour of Casino Royale, which Jess bought me as a gift, while the kids were off at a playdate. We traded an hour and a half of peace and quiet with a parent down the street, which worked out well.

Also worked a fair bit on the yard this weekend, though Jess did a lot more than I did, and the front is starting to look reasonable, though I need to get some of the remains out of the yard; still have a big pile of branches to dispose of at the moment.

I guess, looking back, the weekend was rather productive, but it still hasn't left me in a cheerful mood, so i don't know if that's a win or loss.

Ah well. Back to life.
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Awesome things: cities of the underworld series on the history channel. Totally great episode this week on "secret soviet bases". Watched it last night with kristan, after watching the office.

Full hour season finale of the office next week! I'm excited about that.

Yes, i'm a tv whore these days. Monday is cities of the underworld, thursday is office, and saturday is doctor who (torrented an hour or so after the show ends).

Going out to San Francisco next weekend for wherecamp. May have mentioned this already, can't remember. That should be fun. Still trying to decide what I should do on Friday in San Francisco.

Took a nap in Aerin's sitting room yesterday while waiting to give her a ride over to school for a final presentation. It's nice to be away from the stressors of home sometimes, lets me relax a bit easier without having to think "Oh, I should be cleaning." and so on.

My headphones finally gave up the ghost yesterday at work. Need to see if i can find the other pair that had been floating around, but i haven't seen them in more than a week.

Also, having juicy secrets is hard. I don't have many of them, so this obvious fact has been somewhat unknown to me until relatively recently. I'm sure i've had this problem in the past, but I'm typically so open that secrets are not really part of my life. At least, not juicy ones ;)

Yet another drive time entry written from my phone.
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Passed out early last night, around 8.30, i think. Woke up for a couple hours around 1, back to sleep around 3.30, but apparently turned my alarm off this morning at 6.30. Girls were both late to school, but thats life, really.

Huh. There's a tractor trailer student driver in harvard square. As much as i realize the need to practice in the confines of a city, that seems like asking for trouble.

Some people drink pepsi, some rel drink coke. The wacky morning dj says democracy's a joke.

Towing day for part of my drive back from school. I feel like it's got to be possible to design a street cleaning system that doesn't result in dozens of cars getting towed every day in Cambridge. Perhaps a community effort: stickers that say "call this number if you see my car about to be towed", for warning/communication to people who are about to be towed...

Anyway. Done driving now. Time to start my day.
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Weather outside today! Incredible. I see clouds to the south and north, but here in cambridge, it's just awesome.

Interesting, a volleyball team is practicing in the outdoor park next to my walk home. I don't think i can remember seeing outdoor volleyball practice other than on the beach.

I love the town where i live. I really need to get out and take pictures at some point soon. Trees are blooming all throughout cambridgeport, and it's damn pretty.
Also, downloaded the new nin album from their website today: CC licensed, and released directly by the band/trent. I like it (though less than some of their older stuff), but i wonder where the money is in that... Radio stations? Touring? And don't most artists sell their souls to record companies early on? Why can nin release cc licensed music?

The houses in my neighborhood are so charmingly eclectic. One day, when i win the lottery, i want to own a big eclectic house in this area or another like it.

Life

Apr. 10th, 2008 08:26 am
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Jess is feeling better this morning, having had a root canal yesterday to fix a tooth that was in bad shape. No clue how we're going to cover the multiple thousand dollars of dental cost, but it is good to have her say that her mouth feels better than it has in weeks despite only having one of the two problem teeth taken care of. Such a shame that dental health coverage is in such a sad state: have heard stories of people having only the option of paying more for premiums than their annual maximum coverage. And i thought normal health insurance was bad!

Also, continuing to enjoy an upswing in Jess's overall mood, the duration of which is longer than any in my memory, the entire time we've been together. This is a major good thing, and i hope that it continues long term. It's an excellent example of an upward spiral: getting things taken care of results in more optimism, results in more ability to get things done, results in more optimism, etc. I have seen short bursts of this over the years, but never one so prolonged or effective in the entire time that Jess and i have been together.

Did a software release yesterday, (OpenLayers) have a couple ideas for other projects to ponder in my 'free time' in the short term. Also looking to probably cast about for some contract work related to my mapping work, if anyone is aware of anything i could help out with.

IRS is finally paid off from both 2005 and 2006, (thanks to 2007 return)which is probably my biggest mental relief in my life right now. Yes, i'm still broke, but I don't owe the government any more money, which is a pretty great feeling. Having uncle sam come after you is not a very happy feeling.

I really enjoy having the N95, especially with the latest firmware. Right now, making a gps recording, listening to mp3s through the jetta tape adapter, writing this entry and getting email updates from work. Can your phone do that? Didn't think so. :)

Okay, passing Harvard Square now, which means traffic will move at more than 2 car lengths per minute. Time to drive.

Yawn

Apr. 3rd, 2008 08:32 am
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Tell me something joyful or different that you're doing today, or in the near future.

For example, today I'm going to be hanging out and doing a bug squash at work til late. I like things like this, despite it being work, because the people at work are some of the most interesting and entertaining technical people i've had the pleasure of meeting.

This weekend, I'm going to be buying more fish, I hope: more tetras, and a second dwarf frog to keep our current one company.

It's the little joys that make life special, and i want to know what everyone else is experiencing small joys over.
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Is today some kind of national fishnet day or something? Seen 3 chicks wearing fishnets in a 10 minute drive.

Have copied mp3s to n95. Maybe not as fancy as an ipod, but has several hours of favorite mp3s. Quite nice for the driving of children to school.

La De Da

Mar. 12th, 2008 10:15 pm
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Life is generally good. Although my recent entry about life still applies, I'm slightly more upbeat about things.

Work has been better. I've been concentrating on the server side, where my skills are a better fit, and concentrating on building good APIs so that the specific UI matters less: hopefully this will allow us to build custom UIs against our current project more easily in the future, by not concentrating all our API design around a single client.

Going to Illinois next week to see family for Easter. Also, apparently I turn 24 a week from today. I just realized this.

Kristan's here. We're going to watch 24. Starting Season 5 now...
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8:30am: Drive Jess to therapy.
9am: Call Gastro number that Mt. Auburn gave us and insist that they give Jess the appointment they promised they would try to give her tomorrow.
9:45AM: Accept defeat, and deal with the fact that her appointment will be on Tuesday instead.
10AM: Take Jess back home from Therapy.
11AM: Drive north to get the kids from Jason's.
1PM: Return home with kids in tow. Presumably having stopped at McDonalds or the like on the way home in order to pacify them.
2PM: Go into work in an attempt to make up for lost time.
2:15PM: Get call back from Gastro person telling me that they can fit her in today after all
2:45PM: Take Jess to doc
3:00PM: Get told that it was really just a mistake, and they'll have to see her tomorrow.
4:00PM: Curl up in a ball and whimper.

Jess got a CT scan. They found nothing. She had an extremely rude doctor who didn't consult her chart tell her that there was nothing wrong with her and that the pain medication she was on was unnecessarily strong. (This, when the morphine wasn't even able to alleviate the pain? Thanks.) He talked to the gastro department, which promised an appointment for tomorrow or the next day when we call tomorrow. Which means next month, based on past experience, but whatever.

As a result of the CT scan, we had Jay keep the girls overnight, so I'll be going up to get them tomorrow. We eventually got home around 6:30 after arriving at the ER at 1. Not the worst ever. (Better than staying overnight, in my opinion, since the drugs they were giving Jess weren't helping anyway.)

I crashed out for a couple hours -- didn't get much sleep last night -- and then went out to Cindarella's for a late dinner. Which was damn good, although my stomach disagreed and decided to get rid of it as soon as I got home.

Since then, I've just been dicking around online. I did get some good news about presenting at FOSS4G this fall, and was able to book hotel room with a coworker on Friday, so I'm excited about that.

Nothing much going on other than that.
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Jess is in the hospital again. This time, they're going to do a CT scan. So, we're here for at least another couple hours. Fun fun.

Organization of sock drawer: (post requested by [livejournal.com profile] beginning

My socks are matched, and then top half folded down, making the socks approximately half size with a small tail of toe hanging out. In general, they are then shoved into the small drawer in the top right of my dresser -- this drawer is full of things like handkerchiefs as well, so it's never particularly well organized. Underwear is stored in a different drawer, because I have a ton of it.

In general, I don't keep a lot of socks matched/folded -- especially in the summer, when I'm only wearing Tevas -- but even in the winter, I mostly match on the fly, rather than doing a lot of pre-matching. We have a seperate sock storage container -- the sock bin -- much like we always did in my parents house, where we had the sock basket.

The girls have lots of socks, and they're very small, so they get doubled over totally. They're differentiated by the different color toe band -- pink for Julie, Purple for Ali, though Julie is growing into a purple color as well.

Jess's socks are a mystery to me. I don't know anything about them -- they just appear and disappear at random, it seems.

I'm tired. I wonder if I can get a hospital bed to take a nap in :)

Sheets

Jan. 7th, 2007 11:54 am
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Jess and I have significant disagreements as to how long sheets can remain on the bed before they need to be changed. She feels that sheets should be changed weekly, and that when you get to two weeks you are being negligent in your sheet changing duties.

I, on the other hand, grew up with a mother who believed that changing the sheets once a month was fine.

When I was living on my own, I changed them once every two months or so... but I realize that was pushing the limits of stinkiness, etc.

(Yes, using LJ Polls to resolve relationship conflicts is a bad idea. I'm just full of bad ideas.)

[Poll #902178]
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This week, my old college roommate [livejournal.com profile] y3t39 came out to Cambridge. He showed up last Saturday, and left yesterday.

Things we did:
  • Walked the Freedom Trail, start to finish.
  • Ate at Union Oyster House
  • Visited the USS Cassin Young (the Constitution was closed)
  • Ate breakfast at Zaftig's
  • Toured Harvard Square
  • Toured MetaCarta
  • Walked around Central Square
Things Pete did:
  • First Night, in Boston
  • Toured MIT
  • Drink at the Plough and Stars


All in all, I think that he got a good taste of Boston/Cambridge considering how long he was here and how busy we were. Other things which kept us busy:
  • Julie has some kind of undetermined bacterial infection that was giving her fevers of 105 (again). She's on antibiotics for it now.
  • School starting again for Julie and Alicia
  • A giant snafu with my web hosting provider/server which sucked up about 2 days of my brain cycles.

Things I did not do:
  • Celebrate New Years in any particularly exciting fashion.
  • Sleep.
  • Make new years resolutions.
  • Make long thoughtful reflective posts about the past year.


I need some new userpics. I suppose this one will do for how I feel about this week -- stretched in 15 different directions.
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This morning, I found street parking in Back Bay.

Right next to a McDonalds, and across from the Dunkies I wanted to be at.

Right by Mass Ave.

Oh, and since the meter was out of order... I didn't even have to pay.

Oh, and it was a couple spaces in a row, so I didn't even have to parallel park.

I swear, it must be a cold day in Hell today.

today

Apr. 3rd, 2006 03:30 pm
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My iPod has been lost somewhere in the house. Last time I saw it was when [livejournal.com profile] aajwind was playing with it a week and a half ago. I did get some more of the house clean, and Emmy is making amazing progress on the downstairs of the house.

I'm really tired.

Rent is mailed though, and the DVD selection has been cleaned up to the point that we actually know where things are (shock! Horror!) and we've got netflix flowing again so Jess and I are going to be watching the Sopranos tonight.

I think I'm probably going to be posting a lot of entries today.
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Easy like Saturday morning.

Julie slept in Jess+my bed last night. I have no idea why, as I don't remember when she came into our bed, but it means that I couldn't chill out in bed this morning - not enough room. So, I'm downstairs, chilling out, and watching the very quiet world as it starts to wake up.

Snow yesterday was weird. There was an inch or two of snow, but then the snow started turning into sleet/rain. This actually made it so that most sidewalks were clear of snow if they'd been shovelled at all, or were melted to slush otherwise. I went out around 1/1:30, and at that point the rain started turning into hail. When I was walking back towards the house around 3pm, about 4 inches of snow were on the ground again, and traffic everywhere had pretty much ground to a halt.

How rain turned to sleet turned to hail turned to 4 inches of snow in two hours, I'm not quite sure, but it definitely made walking home more difficult.

Signed on for another 3 months with Ning. That job is so great for me, I hope they want to keep me forever. After this, all "real jobs" are going to suck :) I have been keeping an eye on what's in the area for when we do have to part ways, and I don't think getting a job will be too terrible - the tech field around here is good, and although I hope that I'd be able to make it on my own doing web development, I know that's pretty unlikely.

I'm thinking about learning Lisp.

Park

Oct. 1st, 2005 08:02 am
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Took the kids to the park yesterday afternoon. Was actually a lot more crowded than I thought it would be: This was cool because the parents all helped out. When kids were fighting, a parent stepped in, regardless of whose they were. When Julie wanted help getting on a swing, she got it, even if I was typing on the powerbook 100 feet away. When Julie wanted to push some kid in a little car around in circles, she got to.

This isn't something I've ever seen before: when I went to parks, the other parents stayed out of the way, and my mom had to take care of us: especially hard since at the time, she was typically watching somewhere between 5 to 8 kids.

Is this normal? Do most neighborhood parks have parents all over them helping out all the kids?

Alicia even got to help some lady who was playing tennis: she tossed balls to her to help her practice her swing. (I think she was a Brit of some kind: definite accent, but I don't have the experience to tell where.)
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Family in town. Did some sightseeing, took them to fire and ice. Behaved ourselves and themselves. Seeing them again tomorrow: funeral/spreading of ashes of my great grandmother.

Very tired. But hoping to hang out with the communistas tonight: the family room is clean enough that I can sit in it without stressing out about the fact that it's a mess, courtesy of our familial preparations.

Kristan found a job. Jess got a callback from the Harvard something or other bar. Jenn has two interviews this week. I've got contract work, and am in communication with old high school/college friend and looking to possibly pick up a piece of some action he's going to be bringing to bear. We may actually be able to afford August rent at this rate ;)

Living in Cambridge is expensive, but worth it. I definitely am looking forward to when I have a little bit less on my mind so that I can take full advantage of the location: dropping down to the pit on weekends or something and checking out what's going on, or hitting up the museums. On that note, we did get our Museum of Science Basic 5 memberships in the mail today, so we can spend time there now. Looking forward to that.

Still no internet: current setup is using the powerbook as a wireless receiver from the somewhat weak unlocked access point which seems to get better reception in the front of the house, then using an ethernet cable to drag that back to the router (atlas) who can then rebroadcast it over ethernet or over wireless to the rest of the house. I fear what will happen when I need to set up our non-wireless computers (zeus, hermes), since I have a feeling neither one of them is going to live anywhere near the router, and neither one of them has any space for a PCI card for wireless. Anyone have any experience with USB->WiFi adapters?

You know what would be cool? Internet over bluetooth: a CAT5->Bluetooth dongle that could rebroadcast from the router to the mac mini... oh, shit. I forgot that it probably wouldn't go that far. I'd have to get that other class of bluetooth device... ah well. It still sounds cool.

The girls love the new house. Jessie loves having our own room, and the free space. Alicia got to come up into the attic and see the space up there last night. The kittens have been doing well and being playful, while not running out of the house much.

I love Jess. She's been extremely tolerant of lots of stress and long hours from me lately, and she's been helpful in everything from getting plates on the car to getting everything we need to survive into the house lately.

I love our roomates. Whenever I've needed help: had the last straw with the kids, needed help moving shit around because I was too exhausted to lift even one foot to go up the stairs, or whatever else needed to be done, they've been there.

I love the girls. They have adapted wonderfully, loving everything from walking everywhere (although Alicia did whine that we never take the car anywhere anymore) to taking the T: Julie announced stops on the red line as the recorded voice did earlier today, and has simply been a joy to have around and be around.

I love this place.

People who want to come over: Please do so! We don't have much in the way of furniture, but we do have some space now, and we have food, and we can just show you how the place is. I like it here, and I'm looking forward to meeting more locals.

Off a Day

Jul. 7th, 2005 07:55 am
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I was thinking this morning about my schedule for the rest of the week, and realized I was off an entire day. I kept saying that today was Wednesday. That really fucks up a lot of my plans.

Verizon's 45 seconds to 45 day wait time for installations is really getting on my nerves. *Still* no phone line at the house, which means *still* no DSL, although we did get the Speakeasy modem in the mail this morning. Since we already have the one from MV (Which is nicer), I may end up dropping it onto eBay once we're sure the old modem can do the job.

Commute time this morning (in which I didn't get lost at all):

Erie St. to 93: 12 minutes (6:48->7:00
93 to Mass/NH border: 19 minutes (7:00 -> 7:19)
Mass/NH Border to wedu: 26 minutes (7:19->7:45)

A large chunk of that time was spent coming around 293: I think I got on 2:93 at 7:37, but it was a mess: crowded, and some guy almost drove into me trying to get ahead in a merge.

So much work to do. My parents are getting in today at noon thirty, and wanted me to stop by the farm tonight, but I'm thinking that I'm going to have to be late at work tonight, so that's not going to happen.

Amusement of the day: Some porn site apparently added a bunch of random email addresses to a mailman list. The first I got from it was a bounce message, before I even got the first message sent to the list. I've since gotten a half dozen bounce messages, some spam, and one "If you don't take me off your list, I will fuck your server up, you understand?"

People amuse me.

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