Month: April 2005

I’ll be answering all my nifty interview questions this weekend when I get some time – Today I’m taking my mom to the rose gardens and then Multnomah falls if we have time.

Have a great friday!

Mum wants to take us to dinner tonight – anywhere you’d like to go?

P.S. if you have the time to call Partner’s thass cool. 🙂

Kisses and puppies and unicorns!

Today I released for internal testing my first Apache+PHP+MySQL web app here at work
Yes, it’s quite simplistic – work request form and fulfillment (emailing updates and all data in database backend)– but it’s a small milestone for my coding development. I haven’t written anything like this in ~5 years.
It has been a blast – now I’ll deal with the bugs and feature requests while I tackle the next aspects of the over all project.

I think I’ll make a project plan for it!

Next week is pilot test, then we release it to the company as a whole. Wee!

I’m really happpy with how it came out and it feels good to be in code joy.

SOLD OUT!

It didn’t say that till after you try to buy tickets, the bastards. 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁

An interesting thing: when on a budget, even the smallest of concious purchases can lead to luxury.

Case in point: This morning we were extra-early in getting into downtown for the workday, so we stopped at Peet’s* downtown for a cup of the old bean. Their house blend (when purchasing beans by the lb.) is $8.95/lb — Which is only on average $1-2 more than we would likely spend for beans normally. When you purchase a lb. or more, you also get a complimentary cup of coffee at peet’s. So splurging only about a net amount of $1 per 2 weeks or so yields the deliciousness of Peet’s coffee in the morning at home.

LUXURY. I assure you, as a Coffee connesieur (Ok, Gourmand) I have not found a better roast of flavor than that of Peet’s (for a non-independant).

$2/mo for absolute coffee luxury? A pleasure to be alive. I love you, Peet’s.

*I feel secretly smug when I purchase Peet’s in the NW — Alfred Peet opened his first store in Berkely, CA 1966. Zev Siegl worked in the Berkely store to help get the idea of the coffee business so he and his 2 friends could open their own store in Seattle — which became Starbucks. Their first Starbucks store purchased all coffee from Alfred Peet. So quietly I feel subversive and perverse when I shop at Peet’s in the Nortwest. These are two emotions I adore with peaceful abandon.

This is under the special filter

If you haven’t yet, give PSU a cal at 503 725 9181
Message on the machine when I got home for you to call and schedule phone interview.

Every once in a while I wish I could scream to the ends of the internet:

“Keep your eyes on your own fucking paper!”

Many won’t understand where I’m coming from on this since it is something that says regarding human behavior. Some know what I’m talking about (not that it would be directed to them in particular, just so much of that nonsense goes on). I also choose not to be less cryptic. Let whatever it means to you be your meaning.

Just mind your own beeswax, sunshine — I’m minding mine and it smells fabulous.

(this outburst brought about by nothing specific, BTW)

IN OTHER NEWS

Played some City of Heroes (yay)
Got in touch with friend I haven’t talked to in months via CoH (double yay)
Visted and gamed and hung with (triple yay)
Ate bad food and feel sluggish/unhealthy for it (boo)
House a mess and schedule thown off (boo)
Got to go to Voodoo Donut (I’ll spell it Donut if I want! 😛 ) (yay [and boo for the food item mentioned above])

So it looks like the Yays have it; I declare it a YAY holiday for everyone this week. Please celebrate appropriately.

and a big PS of advice for those who care about this fool’s ideas:

What you hate about others is almost always what you really hate about yourself. When you face your own faults and change, you can then change others by example. This is the only way change occurs. Inspire, my friends. Inspire.

Momentarilly surfacing from work for a quick post:

So I’ve started up again. Damn good bit of fun it is, too.

My global chat name is @TheTalisman – if you play and you dont’ mind, please let me know your global chat name (either here or through email).

Cheers!

I’ve been having too much fun with this week (he is visiting us) to be able to post much of anything.

So here is one of the artsy fartsy photos from the past weekend (it is the dogwood again)

Why am I supposed to care who is pope, again?