We awoke this morning to bright, clear blue skies and sunshine. It was absolutely gorgeous out and we threw open the windows and tried to absorb it all. We lazed around for the early part of the morning, watching Charles Osgood on Sunday Morning. But after that, we were busy for the rest of the…
Hannah hit Saturday early afternoon with lots of rain and wind, but not much of anything else. It was a lazy day for us. We didn’t sleep in late, but we took a lengthy nap in the middle of the day. It was pleasant listening to the rain pound on the roof and wind whip…
Up at 6:40-ish and into the office shortly thereafter. Another productive morning, but an afternoon stuck in meetings. Fortunately, a meeting that was scheduled for 2 hours only lasted an hour. That was a pleasant surprise, considering it’s usually the other way around. I left the office around 4 PM, and walked home. But I read while…
Just finished up 4 scene critiques for the writers workshop. Professor Gunn has us working on "setting" this week. I think I have two more critiques to write, but those scenes haven’t been submitted yet so there’s not much I can do. Very productive day at work today. My Universal Importer for the Big Application we’ve been…
Another weird night’s sleep last night, but better than the night before. We were up just a little late this morning and headed into work. I had anotherfull day of coding, punctuated by a meeting in the morning and a meeting in the afternoon. I felt pretty productive today. At lunch, I finally wrote the…
I was moody this evening for reasons I can’t really explain. I’m rarely moody, but there I was this evening, with a little bit of inexplicable attitude. Saturday too. I blame it on the fact that I spent all day in "programmer mode" (I was in a lesser "programmer mode" on Saturday). But still, that doesn’t really seem…
A character in my workshop story is a fan of D. D. Harriman, for purposes that become more clear as the story progresses. Anyway, I was doing some brainstorming tonight, some mind-mapping (since the writing really wasn’t working) and I decided to go back and read Robert Heinlein’s story "Requiem", in which Harriman is the…
I felt productive at work today! I spent the entire day working on SQL stored procedures for importing data. Pretty routine work, but I did some innovative validation stuff, that should make it easier for a person to validate the data that gets imported into the database. I was in good flow and both the morning…
Labor Day! I slept in later this morning than I did any other day of the weekend. I didn’t get up until 8:20 AM. Kelly had gotten up earlier, ate something, and then came back to bed for another 20 minutes. Then we finally got up. I had some toast and peanut butter for breakfast, and then did some…
I finished Old Man’s War early this afternoon. It was terrific. It was just what I hoped it would be, and I think it easily holds its own with books such as Starship Troopers and The Forever War.