It’s been pretty busy since my last post. There is a lot going on.
First thing is the weather. It has been a Dr. Jekel and Mr. Hyde thing. We had a pretty cold streak that lasted about a week (cold enough I actually turned the heater on) followed by a heat wave. It hit 70F-something today. It’s December; it’s not supposed to be that hot. I’ve turned the A/C back on.
Kitty is losing some weight. I’ve put her on a restricted diet with Shinta gone and when she came back she said Kitty looked skinnier. I’m not starving her by any means, but we’ve cut back from giving her food at every meow to something much more structured and regulated. When she gets down to “healthy” we’ll increase the flow a bit. I bought a bag of the “light” food too, so hopefully we can up the volume enough that she doesn’t feel as hungry. We’ll see how it turns out.
I’ve been out to the airport 3 weekends in a row now. It’s kinda nice just sitting there watching the planes and listening to the traffic on the scanner. I’m gonna be real used to radio traffic again when I start back flying. Heck I might even get to know “the guys” fairly well by then too. It’s cool to have such an active little airport so close to home.
With Shinta gone, I had to occupy my time more than normal. I decided to go ahead and try listening to a podcast I’d seen postings about, but just never gotten around to listening to. It’s BSD Talk (http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/). Somehow, I managed to listen to ALL of them. Yes, an entire year’s worth of podcasts in a little over a week. I’m caught up and loving it. Will does a really great job covering the BSD’s and related things. I find myself checking for more postings daily now.
The TV show season is winding up. We just watched the Survivor ending tonight. It’s cool that Yul won, but really any of the final 4 was fine with me. I’m a little disappointed in the Amazing Race ending. I really didn’t want any of the top 3 teams to win. I’d have liked the Alabama team to win from the 3 that got to the top, but I really wished Kentucky or the Cho brothers had made it. I think the Cho brothers had more of a chance, but they shouldn’t have played so stupidly. It’s one thing to help the other teams in the “six pack”, but to constantly draw themselves down in order to help the others was just dumb (in my opinion). Oh well, it could have just been how the producers edited things. I’m looking forward to the Amazing Race All Stars coming next year. I’m starting to wonder when Stargate is going to pick up again.
I took a couple of work buddies shooting. Introduced them to “the dark side”. It’ll be interesting to see if they want to go again. I think they enjoyed it. It’s hard not to enjoy blasting 5.56 down range. No recoil, lots of noise, and an evil looking toy.
I finally added a slide show to my photo gallery. It’s certainly not the most full featured slide show. It’s not pretty, very intuitive, or even that elegant, but it functions without javascript. That’s a big deal to me right now. Maybe when I code some sort of AJAX solution, but not right now. Right now I want it all done in a way that supports a wide set of browsers without the need for javascript. I’m about ready to write the captions parser, but I may wait and redo the entire back end first to make it a bit more of a media asset manager with web browser accessibility, than just a dedicated photo gallery. We’ll see.
Work seems to be kind of winding up for the year. Looks like there are a lot of people disappearing for vacations and our last release of the year out the door. Time to start working on some infrastructure changes for next year.
