Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to elimloth!!! Have a great one!!

Productive again??

It was still dark when I got up at about a quarter to six this morning; the house was full of little lights. It's amazing how many electronic gadgets we have these days.

I spent the entire day yesterday with IM turned off, and managed to get a solid start on the server-side code we need for a possible demo on Friday. Hacked it together as a Perl CGI, of course. Today I'll be doing the image-processing parts with PerlMagick.

I was originally planning to do it as a stand-alone server based on CherryPy, but decided after looking into somebody else's similar app that I didn't have the time to learn both a new language and a new framework.

Snuggle and conversation ate up most of the evening; I'm not complaining, but I'll have an awful lot of catching up to do. The office and sewing room both need serious organizing and re-packing, and that in turn will get into the garage and attic. Towers of Hanoi, indeed.

I can haz demo!

I've been pretty productive this week -- I think my strategy of staying the heck off IM may have something to do with it. My coworker finagler and I managed to slam together a demo -- for possible use on Friday -- in two days. Perl on my end, Python on his, plus a lot of stuff that we were already working on or thinking about. Fun!

No, you don't get to find out what it is. Not yet, anyway. And it's still very flaky; lashed together with metaphorical baling wire and duct tape. But still... feels good.

I'm beginning to wonder whether my recent emotional changes have come about as a result of the CPAP. The timing is about right -- I got it last November 8th.

We need to do some serious house-cleaning over the next couple of months. Our experience with the last couple of houseguests has made it clear that the sewing room really needs work if it's going to double as a guest room. Especially the closet, which is currently unusable. More upwhen, perhaps.