The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
*does the happy dance*
I've finally released all the documentation and bug fixes for PRIDE that I've been working on all week.
For those of you who might want to have a quick read to see what it is exactly I work on, you can have a gander at the user namual. The more adventurous can also read the implementation documents.
Edit: This just made my day. Email from my boss:
Hi Richard,
Great job, especially on the documentation side!
Best regards,
H.
Two movies in 3 days, a record for us recently :) Katy and I saw Madagascar on monday night, and we went to see Charlie and the chocolate factory last night with a bunch of Katy's coworkers. I was happily surprised with CCF. Normally, I'm not a really big fan of Tim Burton movies, but I liked this one.
Today is documentation day at the EBI, which means that all normal activities are suspended while people WTFM†. There's a reason why coders leave off documentation until the very end of a project. It's brain damaging.
†akin to RTFM. bur even more boring.
Die, struts, die! I fixed you, mwahahahahahahaha!
Just spoke with my landlady and I can't bring Boris over. Poo, I say! POO!
I need to figure out a timing bug in Struts, the evil webapp framework from hell. Timing issues are a bitch to resolve in the best of time, but in Struts, you'd prefer to have your appendix taken out with a rusty spoon while fully conscious.
White englishmen calling each other “dawg!” makes baby jesus cry.
Spending yet another weekend in Leicester. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against it†, but I just want to spend a relaxed weekend with Katy and that won't happen for another 2 weeks, and then it won't happen for another month or so. Blergh. Between her operation and my work trips, we probably won't have time to ourselves until the end of september.
Katy's gran is still in the hospital, though she's now on the upwards trail. She's going to be there for a week or two still, but hopefully things are going to sort themselves out. It's weird though. One minute, she's cracking lewd jokes, the next, she's in the middle of a coughing fit. I've been told I'm not to grow old…
And now for something completely different. Katy got a car this weekend:
It's her parents' old Rover. Since the Rover plant went belly up a few weeks ago, their resale value plummeted. They were offered 300 quid for it, so they decided to give it to Katy instead. It's a bit old, but still in perfect working order. And it's free, so you can't beat the price.
Spent a large part of Saturday walking in town, while Katy and Rita were having a serious girl-talk. My plan was to go read a book I wanted to buy at Waterstones until I got called, but that went south when neither of the books I wanted were there. I ended up wandering for 2 hours, buying coffee and socks.
†Except for the fact that her bed is too small for two psople to sleep comfortably in. Hence, I'm tired and my back isn't really happy with me.
I've been holed up in a small lecture hall for the past 2 days, listening to academics drone on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about their pet project.
Observation #1 about conferences:
I have to go back for it. I so don't want to.
I'm gassy today, as in ridiculously so, and it's not fun. It's been coming out both ends in constant bursts. Niiiiiiiiiiiice.