Day before the last day of clients and I’m fighting a creative and motivational funk. Rather than turning this into an extended screed on my personal mental convulsions I’ll just retire to some ponderings on the ethics of ethanol while listening to Amanda Palmer (thank you Neil, for giving me my new grumpy music by [...]

I’m not doing much in the way of anything really productive right now. @annfeld made a nice spaghetti with alfredo sauce dinner, and now she’s busily music-ing as I sit here coughing and reading up on cooking and farming techniques, while occasionally contemplating some programming ideas. I came down with a bug on Saturday morning [...]

Note to self for the future: DON’T REMOVE HOSTING WHEN ALL YOU WANT TO DO IS FORWARD A SINGLE DIRECTORY!!!!!!! Backstory, in brief: Wife needs website for work. I set it up. We spend several hours making it nice. I go to forward the main page from wifesname.com to wifesname.com/portfolio and end up deleting, in [...]

This was a great 3 day weekend. Too short, but very good. In summary: Saturday: new garden. visit parents. lots of work done on blog and ideas. made and canned mulberry jelly for the first time ever, and it was awesome. Sunday: more work done in writing. ate amazing jelly and home made bread. nearly [...]

Any readers who happen to be in, or planning to visit, Norfolk, Virginia should consider paying a visit to The Belmont. Its a quirky restaurant / bar at the intersection of 21st Street and Colonial Avenue. A bit pricy, but they have great special deals. For example: Today I had a bill of $0 for [...]

Went to Barnes and Noble with the wife tonight to try and find books on starting small businesses. Ugh, it all seems dreadfully complicated. We got a couple of books on the basics, such things as: do we even need to start a business to do what we have planned? The biggest question will likely [...]

Lots of things going on these days. SOLs are done (for me) and now I’m busy keeping the students enthralled with literature. Or trying to. Projects currently underway: Lengthy post about SOL testing in Virginia (should probably wait until I’m done with it before posting). Reformatting my game to print on cardstock, while trying to [...]

The big news of this weekend: we have a Mulberry tree in our backyard! Not sure if our beloved landlord was aware of the delightful nature of this tree (she never mentioned it in our pre-move-in tour of the house), but it is great. I first suspected we might have a fruit tree of some [...]

Day off today. Spent much of it catching up on grading. Was not supposed to be a day off, but the wife’s car got a flat tire and I have more personal days banked than she does. Speaking of her tire… Either I am a pathetic weakling (shut up), or… I dunno. I tried as [...]

I never knew a cat could stretch out so much. Looks comfy.

Spent about 45 minutes working on Objective-C and iPhone programming tutorials. At times it’s a little frustrating to be going back to commandline input and output when I can jump into something like RunRev and have a fully functional UI app running in about 5 minutes. The problem is long-term goals. RunRev is great for [...]