Weight Check

Weight: 196lbs
Net Change: –3lbs
BMI: 26.6 (overweight)

Friday, June 27, 2008 07:59

Last night was fairly uneventful.  We made a wonderful salad with organic greens, spinach, grilled chicken, dried cranberries and almonds for dinner.  We are participating in a harvest program with a local organic farm.  Every Thursday afternoon we get organic produce delivered from the farm.

Drove to the mall so Pauline could run a couple errands and I could gas up the Volvo.  $4.149 at BJ’s… cost me 62 bucks to fill up.  We’re really trying to consolidate errands to minimize trips.

We watched some of Batman Begins on FX last night.  Can’t wait to see the Dark Knight.

Strong suspicion the baby comes tonight.  I may well have had the last night of good sleep for a while.

Today I’m trying to continue plowing through new feature development.  I fixed something that was vexing me yesterday and that’s all working fine right now.  Moving on to my next task it looks like another developer has started doing some work in this area so I’m going to need to meet with him and make sure our code syncs up correctly.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 15:00

I’ve had mostly a productive day at work today.  The number of meetings I have to attend on a daily basis has significantly dropped which has allowed me more time to sit and focus on what I’m working on.  Today, I spent most of my time refactoring a feature that my team is working on in order to create a more robust system without the need for lots of copy-pasted code.  It took me a couple hours; I’m getting my coding groove back which has been sadly absent the last year or so as I had been spending pretty much every working hour either in a meeting or creating some sort of project plan.

Waiting for the phone to ring all day.  Baby Watch 2008 is officially in high gear and it seems very likely that our baby will be born either today or tomorrow.  I have tentatively scheduled next week for paternity leave.  Since the 4th is a holiday, I can’t carry an extra paternity day over to the following week; I still have to report back that next Monday.  I suppose I could complain about it but I doubt it would do much good.

Continuing to feel better.  Starting last week I’d been going through a week of misery but things are looking up, anti-biotics are working and I am feeling more like my normal self.  Timing is good on this one (see previous paragraph).

Final Crisis #2 comes out today.  Evidently, whenever DC wants to have a big "important" series or event it has to be a crisis (i.e., "Crisis on Infinite Earths", "Identity Crisis" and "Infinite Crisis").  I read issue #1 last week and was neither blown away nor turned away from it.  The artwork was (for the most part) quite decent but story wise I haven’t been captivated yet.  The latest Action Comics on the other hand was quite excellent.

Weight Check

Weight: 195lbs (net change: –4lbs)
BMI: 26.4 (overweight)

FireFox 3

3:54 PM

It took quite a while due to net congestion but I was finally able to install FireFox 3.  I’ve barely had time to use it but it seems faster than the previous version.

Prayers and thoughts go out to JB.

Tuesday, June 17

6:36 AM

Sitting in the park & ride waiting for the bus. I haven’t ridden the bus in quite some time since my company allowed me to park for free in the corporate lot. I don’t like being at work without a car especially with Pauline being eight & 1/2 months pregnant so hopefully she won’t go into labor while I’m at work.

6:46 AM

On the bus now. Last night I discovered that a spreadsheet that my team and I spent an exhaustive two hours on yesterday appeared to not have saved to my hard drive. I can only pray that I was able to upload it to the network.

Going back to riding the bus means going back to reading more consistently. I’m starting Beyond the Bedroom Wall by Larry Woiwode. It’s a rather thick tome; hopefully it’ll be good. It received high marks on goodreads.com.

7:35 AM

My spreadsheet is not on the network.  I’m now searching for any and all .tmp files on my hard-drive, but I don’t believe that auto-save is enabled for Excel by default.

The thing I don’t understand is I was editing this document locally and kept hitting save throughout the meeting.  At the end I uploaded to SharePoint and the only thing I can think of was that the empty version out on SharePoint over-wrote my local version.

Gah…

Weight Check

Weight: 197lbs
Net Change: –2lbs
BMI: 26.7 (overweight)

At last, RSS on my Pocket PC

10:54 AM

Finally I was able to install and configure AvantGo (no small feat) on my Axim and its working pretty well.  I still need to figure out how to get it to autosync when I connect.  Even though I have that setting set in my preferences, it seems I still have to go into AvantGo while cradled and click “Sync All”.

Only get 2000K for RSS content.  I can pay $19.95 a year to upgrade to 8MB but I don’t need it that badly.

Off to another meeting…

Friday, June 13

6:57 AM

Didn’t sleep well again last night. When my alarm went off I reset it for an hour later, but that didn’t help much. MJ got up way too early (he’s starting to come down with a cold) and decided 6:20 in the morning would be a great time to play drums in his room, thus waking up those still fortunate enough to be sleeping.

At least it will be hot and humid today.

Done With Physical Therapy

6:17 PM

Pauline & H just left for a walk. I had my last physical therapy session this afternoon. Now I just need to continue with my exercises & not lift or twist.