December 30, 2009

Short Updates

Posted by Scott at 11:59 PM

Good morning! It's a mere 6°F on this 6th Day in the Octave of Christmas. I woke up a bit earlier than Michelle and offered up another rosary for her continued health. What are you doing today as we get close to the end of the decade? 6:02am

Back from Mass. Michelle & the boys are heading to the Y so she can attend a Step & abs class. If IT resolved yesterday's issues, I'll be VPN'd into work after breakfast. 8:34am

I'm not surprised at this time of year, but IT didn't resolve my tool licensing issue, so my vacation starts now. I had agreed last week that I would continue working until I hit a roadblock. Not being able to get a simulator license is a pretty big one. My boss agreed, so I'm logging out of the VPN until Monday and logging a vacation day instead. 10:06am

That's it! I'm firing up our second wood stove! Perhaps between two working together... 12:54am

From a recommendation of the crew at Hak5 I'm downloading "World of Goo" on the Wii for the boys. 1:09pm

Thank goodness! I dug up the "master user" credentials for our family email accounts. I was searching for about half an hour. I rarely login as the account manager and had lost the name and password. 3:48pm

We all enjoyed some take out dinner from Milanos. I was a bit bummed that I snapped the zipper handle on my favorite winter jacket -- a leather one given to me years ago by my father for Christmas. 5:15pm

Bookmarks I made today:

10 highest-income counties by median household income (2007)
Comment: [from Wikipedia] Highest household income is in the areas around Washington, DC?! Count me unshocked. No wonder government spending is considered stimulus.
Excerpt: 10 of the 20 counties are part of the Washington Metropolitan Area

Wise Advice from St. Francis de Sales for When People Question Your Motives
Comment: Just the excerpt from a St. Francis de Sales' classic book that I needed today. [Hat tip: Patrick Madrid Thanks, Patrick!]
Excerpt: "As soon as worldly people see that you wish to follow a devout life they aim a thousand darts of mockery and even detraction at you. The most malicious of them will slander your conversion as hypocrisy, bigotry, and trickery. . . .

MacRuby » Overview
Comment: Reading the overview and considering whether to kick the tires on this over the long weekend. If not, perhaps CamelBones -- a blend of Perl and Objective-C.
Excerpt: MacRuby is a unique blend of Ruby 1.9 and Objective-C. The goal of the MacRuby project is to be 100% compatible syntactically and behaviorally with Ruby 1.9.

Bing "Birds Eye View" of our house
Comment: Was trying out some of the features of Bing Maps. This shot was taken at a pretty barren time of year! Creepy how detailed it is for being as rural as we are. Note: requires Internet Exploder, Firefox, or Safari.

Snapshots I took today:
Thumbnail of Ready to take another Step class 

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