Weekend wrap-up

On the whole it's been a pretty productive day on the website; in particular, the new Songs page is basically complete, and the Makefiles are fully functional. Still a little less automation than I'd really like. Managed to do much of it out in the living room with the flower_cat.

Still a fair amount of work left to do, which I'll have to get done before I write another song (setting up directories for new songs is one of the unfinished spots) but the basic structure is there. It should be possible now to create a completely customized page for every song.

Went for a drive with the Cat before dinner, and got some welcome cuddle time after taking the kids to their 7pm game. She went to bed about an hour and a half ago; time for me to join her.

Not the best of days

Well, let's see...

Let's start with my walk at lunchtime. Between temperatures in the upper 90s and the fact that my right knee started hurting about the time I started (it was the left knee last week; luckily I had a knee brace in my bag for just such an occasion), it wasn't much exercise.

On second thought, let's start with waking up at 4:30 and not being able to get back to sleep. Because that probably explains the crash around 1:30.

I then spent a singularly frustrating three hours trying to create a couple of trivial circuit diagrams in (in order) dia, xfig, and OpenOffice. The latter was starting to work when the pain in my right hand forced me to stop and head for home. If I get sufficiently frustrated tomorrow I'll haul out my camera and a whiteboard.

On the way home, it suddenly occurred to me that the brilliant idea I had last week (and was writing up for the patent review committee meeting Wednesday; hence the circuit diagrams) may very well have a fatal flaw in it. Which is what I get for coming up with something out of my field less than two weeks before the deadline.

I may have another drink after all.