not dead; lots of news coming
I have been putting off writing anything down here because I want to wait for some things to be finalized before I talk about all the big stuff that’s been keeping me so busy and stressed out, but I thought I’d jot a few things down. If I don’t, I never will, and anyway this is a little sign of life.
Today, Gloria and I went out with Katie and Jerome. We got Greek food and saw Little Miss Sunshine. Those were both good ideas. I had a car door close on my finger, which wasn’t so good. It was mostly just painful; nothing broke or ruptured, except for maybe some cappillaries. Typing feels weird, but doesn’t really hurt very much.
We went way over our cell phone minutes last month. I didn’t realize how much the per minute charge was for overages. Yow! I called today to change to a better plan and I was informed that there’s a plan that will cost the same, give us twice the minutes, and not require any contract extension. Why did I have to call them to find this out? Still, cool. I am hoping to soon entirely ditch our landline, so this change should help.
At work, I just finished implementing a very bare boned and lightweight RPC system that we’re hoping to use in obsoleting some old software. Doing so gave me a chance to play with PyYAML, and I must say: it is totally fantastic. I’d probably have some complaints if I used it for all kinds of insane things, but for doing some non-trivial stuff, it really blows YAML.pm and YAML::Syck out of the water. I am really looking forward to seeing the TPF-sponsored port of PyYAML to Perl. It will make a lot of difference in the way Perl programmers can benefit from YAML.
I think that’s about as much as I want to type tonight. I hope to have a lot more to say on Thursday.