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Fionn to Triona and Colm's wedding. I mind kids and Maeve. On beach a bit longer. Then get myself dressed, leave boots off, towels under kids. Back to house, Fionn feeds Maeve, I heat dinner for kids and myself. Mashed potato + sausages.
Fionn heads away. Maeve doesn't like potato + carrot. Likes her water. We go shopping. Maeve falls asleep and is just bare legs sticking out of car seat in trolley. Back at house Maeve doesn't have bottle at all. Clothes washes on and hung up later. Figure out washer/dryer. In mouth but she doesn't like it. At dinner feed her with us (we have spagetti + mince). She still doesn't like potato. New to her? Try carrot + apple cold and she does like that. Phew. She eats half. George of the jungle film on tv kids. Maeve bounces.
Eep. Can't ind Maeve's sleep suit. Put damp on in dryer. Kids to bed. Stories. Mave a bit overtired. I expect trouble but she drinks 3oz! Singing loudly to her seems to make her forget to think about the taste. She drops way off soundly to sleep. No wake up when I move or stand up or lay her in cot.
Silly tv. Bed 2qam :( gah. Just before Fionn home Maeve wakes and crosser when I lift her into bed. I leg it and put bottle together, phone Fionn. Fionn car just arrives as bottle together so into fridge with it.
Decide to drive to Limerick, through town, stop in garage - no tape. Heading for M50, eek 80k + seems a bit fast. Oh no am heading for Galway! Get tape in a garage, tape up light, head through Lucan, get lost but find self (following to left of sun). Roads till signs for Naas and a few others. Going East. Nuts shouldn't have followed that sign but come out okay. At Naas I go on M50 and get off at next exit. Oops Uey on grass to get Kildare road. Gardai check tax in Kildare, I have form + vl cert + insurance cert but don't have to show it. ... don't remember ever driving through Newbridge before. Oof bumps. And wind buffeting. Yellow vest opens annoyingly and wind drags and flutters. Stop to close it a couple of times but once speed goes up it opens again. Right leg getting stiff, neck a bit too. Stop and have banana and phone Fionn. In Limerick at 466k get petrol. 7.40 euros. since 250k. Better fuel comsumption again. (after service maybe or also with driving outside town).
In Limerick swap bike for car. Feed self. Lock and cover bike. Drive to Spanish point. Get there 23:30ish. Fionn in bed. Maeve wakes up 3am? for feed.
This morning Lar arrives with plastic to cover what is left in sitting room and hall.
Each day this week I talk to builders in morning - Lar and Robbie and Richie. Phone Fionn. Builders again. Then motorbike to work.
umts ranap and asn1 lots in work until status meeting wed/thur. Then concentrate on merging the makefile work in.
At home this evening house is dusty. Wow. Knocked inside wall down. I make mashed potato with onion - mmm yum and have sausages too. Mashed potato lasts another 2 days :)
Reading 3gpp UMTS RANAP spec. Using soureceforge asn1c compiler to compile it. Discover ASN.1 parameterisation (and not in asn1c compiler yet).
Email to maker of camel and
camel sourceforge.
I've very little time to spend on things ... (fun things!)
So I'm scraping the time to type even this little up.
Apologies for scantiness/whatever.
Anyway.
As noted by the developer of Camel. Yes it is quite easy to
port the game to Linux :)
See the source tree here.
CamelPortedToLinux.tgz
Now.
I had to do a few things.
So some lines of code have changed.
They are simple changes but necessary.
A patch would be useful to someone if they wish to merge the changes ...
I can make this if someone is interested.
(or if they are very interested generate it against the camel supplied
in sourceforge)
Someone has put automatic configure/make files in place in the code
in sourcecode. But ... Not too sure how to fit into that nicely.
Simple enough makefile (src/makefile in tgz/tree) builds but
also once I had gotten past compiler problems the Makefile
started working too.
I kept a messy list of notes here: Camel/notes-port-to-linux
You have to run the CamelGame binary (supplied or built) from a particular directory
so that it finds the levels to load.
First thing: Dependancies:
SDL (obviously), BFont, paragui (and paragui-devel), freetype2
I "discovered" these dependancies.
Didn't find them in docs so not sure exactly about versions required.
The makefile points at where the dependancies are installed:
INCLUDES = -D_DEBUG -D_SDL -DLINUX -I ../include -I /usr/include/paragui -I /usr/include/freetype2 -I /usr/local/include/SDL
CFLAGS = `sdl-config --cflags --libs` `paragui-config --libs` -lSDL_mixer -lSDL_image
For reference, my system (which compiles and runs the Camel game has installed:
rpm -qa |egrep "(paragui|SDL|freetype|BFont)"
SDL-1.2.7-33
freetype2-2.1.7-53.6
paragui-1.0.2-533
SDL_ttf-2.0.6-215
SDL_perl-1.20.0-350
SDL_mixer-1.2.5-203
freetype-1.3.1-1150
freetype2-devel-2.1.7-53.6
freetype-tools-1.3.1-1150
SDL_sound-1.0.1-49
paragui-devel-1.0.2-533
SDL_image-1.2.3-219
SDL_net-1.2.5-216
Not all these are needed for Camel game.
They're there as I mess with lots of stuff (in all the time I don't have really
to spend on things like this).
BFont was interesting. Seems old. Not available generally.
So .. I'm using the wrong library? I had to rename calls BFont routines.
I used BFontv1.1.0/
Compiled and tested it. Then copied into Camel source tree and renamed
routines as needed. Everything seems okay. Would be better to get right
version of BFont (realised this after I had gotten it working with
the version I had obtained)
(this finding of BFont would be a problems also for anyone trying to
compile it on Windows)
Thing no. 1.
Visual C++ vs gcc difference I think.
For errors like this: MenuController.cpp:425: error: `Game::GAME_OPTIONS' is not an aggregate type
enum type called GAME_OPTIONS in Game class.
enum GAME_OPTIONS {
NO_OPTION = -1,
FULLSCREEN,
Game::GAME_OPTIONS::FULLSCREEN was used in code. gcc didn't like this.
gcc prefers Game::FULLSCREEN.
Will Visual C++ compile the code still? Someone needs to test.
Is there a gcc option that could be used instead of changing the code all over
the place?
Thing no. 2.
paragui callback object passed different
paragui version thing? VisualC++ vs gcc thing?
btnStartGame->SetEventObject(MSG_BUTTONCLICK, this, (MSG_CALLBACK_OBJ)&MenuController::btnStartGame_Click);
Thing no. 3.
Some things surrounded by #ifdef WIN32 were not win32 specific.
Moving #ifdef WIN32 around in some cases corrected problems.
Some things were WIN32 specific so the equivalent LINUX code was put in place.
find file function not implemented in linux (gcc -DLINUX )
void CU_ListFilesLINUX(const char *dir, std::list<std::string>& FileList)
in utilities/CamelUtility.cpp
Thing no. 4.
There was a #include <iostream> / using namespace std; issue
std::ostream and std::cerr etc. (std:: needed) in BFont.h
maybe my fault for choosing wrong version of BFont.h
Thing no. 5.
TODO Switching screen resolution doesn't work linux (had to rm func call could not
find defined anywhere).
Thing no. 6.
Added endlines at eof to quieten gcc warnings.
Thing no. 7.
A paragui but also Visual C++ vs gcc issue I think.
A few of these similar gcc compiler errors fixed by e.g.
(MSG_CALLBACK_OBJ)btnStartGame_Click
changes to:
(MSG_CALLBACK_OBJ)&MenuController::btnStartGame_Click
MenuController.cpp:283: error: argument of type `bool (MenuController::)(int,
PG_Widget*, long unsigned int, void*)' does not match `bool
(PG_EventObject::*)(int, PG_Widget*, long unsigned int, void*)'
btnStartGame->SetEventObject(MSG_BUTTONCLICK, this, (MSG_CALLBACK_OBJ)btnStartGame_Click);
~/src/Camel/src> grep MSG_CALLBACK /usr/include/paragui/*
/usr/include/paragui/paragui_types.h:typedef bool (*MSG_CALLBACK)(int id, PG_Widget* widget, unsigned long data, void *clientdata);
/usr/include/paragui/paragui_types.h:typedef bool (PG_EventObject::*MSG_CALLBACK_OBJ)(int id, PG_Widget* widget, unsigned long data, void* clientdata);
#define PARAGUI_CALLBACK(funcname) \
bool funcname (int id, PG_Widget* widget, unsigned long data, void *clientdata)
CHANGE TO THIS:
btnStartGame->SetEventObject(MSG_BUTTONCLICK, this, (MSG_CALLBACK_OBJ)&MenuController::btnStartGame_Click);
Thing no. 8.
There is profiling code in there that is windows specific.
TODO: port this
Compiling without the profiling flags set is fine on linux.
This evening I do loads of furniture removal. Piano into kitchen. Couch up to our room. oof. Pack away glasses and stuff wrapped in paper into boxes. Display unit up stairs to kids bedroom. Coffee table and boxes up to kids bedroom. I inspect house, feed furry the ferret every 2nd day. Phone Fionn and kids. Feed self.
I put some new photos on the web. See the smashing and building at our house. Some photos from Robbie & Sandra's wedding and Eoghan and Mary's wedding. And I have a new motorbike to get to work! eek! I email people about hte photos.
Maeve is starting to eat real food and looks like a savage when we have dinner. She opens her mouth, watches very intently food going from plates into people's mouths and then lurches/throws herself at food. (with little grr/rarring noises)
Daire started to read his own bedtime stories and discovered Harry Potter at about the start of the Summer. He has just got the latest one from the library. Kate is a VERY good climber and talker! And she loves helping to cook. Especially chopping things up with sharp knives. Maeve is a good baby. Very quiet if there are things happening. She watches everything. She's starting to eat real food and looks like a savage when we have dinner. She opens her mouth, watches very intently food going from plates into people's mouths and then lurches/throws herself at food. (with little grr/rarring noises)
Sweetcorn+hoops+potatoes+rice+sausages for lunch. Shift computer upstairs. Huge rats nest. I tidy somewhat with screws in back of desk. Everything ... still ... works ... yup. seems to. Get money with Kate.
Potatoes+pizza+bread+yum asian mushrooms for tea. Fionn cooks. Brickies finish at 19:00. Feed Maeve bottle of breastmilk. She is not quite 100% pleased. But drinks most. Scoot kids up to bed. Read Kate story. I very sleepy falling asleep. Maeve is cross. I walk with her. Then Fionn settles her in bed.
I get distracted by computer. Camel game. Realise it isn't the ticks that cause trouble. It IS the level loading that I had not done yet. When starting a game first thing done is read in level files. So I put together:
#elif defined(LINUX) #includeA tgz of the cvs tree with a debug hexecutable is here: CamelPortedToLinux.tgz. Now should write up what done (especially the uglier hacks :-7) and make a patch against cvs. And tell someone.#include #include void CU_ListFilesLINUX(const char *dir, std::list<std::string>& FileList) { assert(dir != NULL); FileList.clear(); // Make sure that the filelist is empty DIR *dir_p; struct dirent *dir_entry_p; dir_p = opendir(dir); while( NULL != (dir_entry_p = readdir(dir_p))) { struct stat fstatinfo; char pathname[534]; sprintf(pathname,"%s/%s",dir,dir_entry_p->d_name); stat(pathname, &fstatinfo); //printf(" %s %d\n", dir_entry_p->d_name, fstatinfo.st_mode); if (S_ISREG(fstatinfo.st_mode)) { FileList.push_back(string(dir_entry_p->d_name)); CU_Dbg_Printf(NULL," %s reg file \n", dir_entry_p->d_name); } //if (S_ISDIR(fstatinfo.st_mode)) //printf(" %s dir \n", dir_entry_p->d_name); } closedir(dir_p); //CU_Dbg_Printf(NULL,"not done yet linux port - jamesc\n"); //assert(0); //return Result; } #endif
Hooray and Oh Joy. Game runs. Oh is soooo cute! :)
Down. Make plans for tomorrow. Fionn will collect me from work and bring me to collect motorbike in Artane. Must get money and insurance. Must get Lock for bike, and lock anchor for driveway, weather cover, weather/protective pants for me. Tax. Service, new back tyre, clean front shocks, replace front shock seals.
Car badly needs service too. normal service especially oil, front Right dim bulb, left indicator (wiring/connector problem when brake light on), radio aerial (probably Ace tyres can't).
Phone Andy in Ballinteer. 11:30. Phone Mike. Meet Mike Superquinn. Round corner. Uoh. Bike quite scratched, leathers ripped, back brake pedal bent. Have a good look. Mngeh. Andy is quite nice alright. Bike battered. Is 25k but nope. Could be lots to fix. Off to Artane we go. I lead in car. Mike follows. Eep. Up past Dundrum I have a lost moment. Pass Airfield and happy again. In past The Goat, Clonskeagh, right to Donnybrook, left/right at Ballsbridge. Right under DART bridge straight for ringsend towers and toll bridge. oop! need 1.45 for the toll for car. Up left right at Clontarf onto Howth Rd. Then on up left, right etc find John and Breffni fitting new battery. Bike looks good. Is 11k. Poke at it and talk. Bike started from cold ... takes a push down road John & myself. Vrmmm. THen Mike takes it round block. Both are having first babies soon. Check papers and put 500 euros deposit and maybe collect Tue 7 o'clock.
home. Mike heads to Howth to get fishies.
or maybe did we goto Airfield on Sunday? WHat did we do Sat then?
Later Fionn and I excercise together on carpet. Me very sleepy then.
We go to Airfield house. Look at market. Daire milks pretend cow. Kate runs. Then on in to town. Phone Brian not there. Eat in pub opposite botanic gardens. Beef dinner + cod dinner + soup. Beef shared by kids. Soup for Fionn. Fionn mind/feeds Maeve while kids & I buy food. Walk in the gardens. Good fun. Kids run. Courgettes and other veggies. Lots of squirrels. Some come close. One grabs a fruit on ground and eats half of it. Kate follows him with the rest. Home.
Late I go to get money and grocery shop in Tesco in Dundrum. I doh exchange two 1 euros for a two and DOH trolleys take 1 euro coins!!! Shop shop. Bit tired. I doh get money after midnight. Home. Distracted computer. Put away shopping. Eat something. Bed.
Onto bike and getting used to her again a bit. Figures of eight, add in observing and indicating. Up to 2nd and down. Dummy left turns (stop, move off). Eyes up all time. Not looking at controls. Doing mirror and lifesaver checks. Then read two sheets on road position/junctions/cornering/bends. Fit ear piece.
Off we go out on road. It's faster than I expect but easier than I expect. Vrmmmm. Up 2nd, 3rd. Back down left turn at lights. Looking in mirrors. Lifesaver checks. (observation in some areas suffers if it is busy in others). Lifesaver to L or R before moving off or cornering. Cancelling the indicator is forgotten a bit ... must teach head/thumb to do that all the time. Cornering - must look where I am going. If alot happens and I see something in mirrors or during lifesaver and I look at it more then my path through corner is affected. We go left again and again. Joe waits for me if car gets between. Left again 4 times around block. Then follow Joe left and right up through gears - over speed ramps, manouvering big truck to get past. Road position. Must keep out more from parked cars. Not in close like cyclist. Checking mirrors, lifesaver looks when changing road position and before/in turns.
Starting from standing - clutch + throttle is still rough sometimes. I stall 3 times this session. But not worried. Traffic is okay about it. I get neutral, start engine, first, then move off. Stall twice when it is not very busy. Stall on Drumcondra road. Lots of traffic. Traffic inside and out. Neutral is hard to get but get it, start, first (Hendon shuffle)
Getting down the gears to 1st, slowing isn't automatic yet. Getting into neutral can be fiddly.
We stop a couple of times for instruction. We stop and Joe gets petrol and I watch his bike while he pays. BMW 1100 looks like big tourer to me. GPS and lots of nice things on controls. Dakar - Argentina. Celt on helmet.
Back to depot. Turning left in across footpath. Joe heads in. Two pedestrians and a buggy are crossing my path so I slow and stop. When they're well gone I move off ... but augh not exactly sure what happens but go for a slow tumble off bike just across footpath. Throttle revs as my hand on it. I'm off bike somehow not under. Bike wheels agains wall. Oops and doh! Off bike engine. Lift. But it is in gear, can't move it back, can't get it into neutral. By this time Joe has wondered what happened. He comes and picks stuff up. I'm pretty happy really. Very stupid. :( But no harm. Brush off ego and bike. Vrmm it up lane into yard and park.
Gear off, eat banana/orange, phone Fionn. Tell her about road trip and fall too. Head off towards harolds cross. Looking up, naming hazards in head on bicycle. Traffic is slow in places. I stop in a bicycle/motorbike shop just over the canal. (DAMN! now I can't call bikes bikes any more, I have to call them bicycles to avoid confusion!) They don't have suitable motorbikes. But they have jackets. Same one I liked in Bray. for 170 euros. I get that. Blue. Try on helmet (nitro - polycarbon and fiberglass) and gloves too. Just buy jacket. Make a run back over canal, down to lights and up street to ATM for cash.
On we go (after managing to stuff bike jacket into bag with bicycle wet weather jacket/pants. Right at Harolds cross. At little village place find it is Sundrive road. Cross over. Park bike. Goto sandwich. 3 places before get one. Eat lunch sitting on bag in sun. A girl likes my bike. Her friend talls me so. On I go to 106 sundrive road motorbike shop. I talk to mechanic person John about bikes. They don't have honda 250/bros but he is encouraging me toward 125s or scooter. Hmmm. I try on helmets with him too. Lie down. Eat fruit. Wait, David lyons comes 1:40. Unk. Need helmet & gloves. Paul and John busy with other party. Wait. Then. Okay. Get helmet. Find gloves. Blue. Yup. Buy. GEar on/up. Follow David out. I'm rougher than morning. Road position better but signal cancelling bad, cornering and looking where going ngeh. Quiet area - big circle of roundabouts. Neutral on this bike is trickier than one in town. We go further - maybe a bit faster than this morning. Lots to try and do while observing at same time. We take break. Get cans (and David gets petrol too). By sandymount/road going to toll bridge. Get asked directions by 2 people. (big bright yellow vests attract lost people) Back in Sandymount, to Blackrock road, stall before turning up to Booterstown Ave in bad road position. To right of right lane just before right turning slip road. Och. Traffic comes fast from behindso I have to wait after I have her started. Grand. Corner ... wait for lights. Rough going through. David tells me why I installed in first place which I wasn't even really aware of. Black mercedes in front of me. David in front of that. NEar slip I was nearly squeezing in but looking at too much and stopped in 2nd and tried to take off in 2nd. Mercedes then went into right lane apparently (were on mibile phone). Anyway. I'm not phased. I'm happy. Hope it's okay with David. I'm still looking down sometimes at controls. Get better cancelling indicators but still make mistakes after coming out from busy traffic spot. Down N11 a little, up ? avenue - past the Goat, David drops business cards in a place. Back to shop. Whew. Settle. Eat. Pack up all gear into bag. Buy yellow vest.
I cycled into town to all my motorbike lessons ... by today (cycling home with bag full of motorbike jacket + gloves + bike wet gear + helmet swing off it) was feeling glad I'm going to motorbike places. I go across town ... slightly lost. End up in Rathgar - lose self again - end up in Terenure - go Rathmines, Nutgrove, Churchtown, Dundrum, Sandyford, home at last! Daire & kids playing with bikes and switchboards. They're impressed with the helmet. In to Kate and Fionn. Kate puts helmet on too. Very cure. Maeve is asleep with Fionn on couch. Leave Maeve after a bit. I go to clean - no hot water. I shave and mop self up. Fionn cooks potatoes/salad/chicken/beans. Maeve and I take photos of drains/building site. I'm so tired eating. Get up and get kids series of things. Was holding Maeve but Fionn takes her.
Out to garden, extract hose from under things and water plants out back and then front. Assumpta's too. Kate helps me. Daire is fighting lightsaber battles with bamboo piece. Kids in for bath. I run bath, they get in. I put my bike under dry bush. Lie on bed. Read page or two - Leslie Thomas - Orange Wednesday. Must ... get ... up! Clothes (dry) off clothes horse. Sort out clothes in hotpress. Dry ones in to air. Fionn gets kids out of bath, dry, abed. I have tea. Ochhhgggg! Yum. Excercises. TV Sliding Doors John Hannah Gwyneth Paltrow Look up Amines (glucosamine). Check/Delete email. Do some diary for first time in ages.
Yay! Meet waider on irc. Tall him about motorbike and back and stuff. Waider has gone to Ballina festival again - someone puts him in costume?
Joe comes. Used to bike in squasrish circles. Figures of 8. Observing. Then also indicating. Then runs to get into 2nd gear. Very rough at first. If I get into 2nd I have clutch still in when I stop, or something. Use throttle heading back. Joe says put it up to 2nd and that works. A few goes and it gets good. Hand was leaving go clutch fast. Like brake on bicycle. Left hand trained to leave clutch out slowly. Right trained to stay on throttle (and do throttle gently) and stay away from braking (except when stopping - er - yeh). Practice that a bit.
Visit daintree get paper - hard to carry cardboard that won't bend. Put it between bag in straps and my back. Weird wide wing load should be printed on my back. Get mobike phone charger 10 euros instead of 20 or 25. fm mobiles place shut but shop up road open.
daytime ?
Goto Dundrum shopping center. Maeve and I do groceries. Fionn brings D and K clothes shopping. Meet in Next. Then Kids and I go get ice creams and smoothie. Maeve out of car seat a bit ngeh. Meet Ken Mcullagh. (he pokes me hello) Ow! his shoulder needs an operation.
Vrmm home. Drop all, in some groceriews, get swim gear, go swim Wow! Full length front crawl. Feels good. Legs kicking fast and properly seem to help breathing. Good session. I do splutter on front crawl and butterfly though.
On way home call into two bike shops. Look at bikes (honda bros 400 mainly) and gear.
Home 15:00ish. Phone. 2 more motorbike lessons already arranged. David Lyons got in contact. Setup another lesson!
Aie! Remember physio appointment just as Fionn is going to cycle to shop. I go in - back better again after a week. Show her excercises, then she did stuff ... then I couldn't bend over. I couldn't stand up straight afterwards! cruelty! ow!
sun Walk with Kate to John and Carly's house. Well. To field. Go through gap and big weeds/thorns. Ella new chair. Fix puter. Another miracle. Restart restart restart reinstasll plug in and leave in for long time, listen for swapping, allow it to report unknown device, found drivers, error with device, then drop webcam stem on floor and pull out/reinsert at right moment seems to be the secret install method. Carly feeds us noodles. Yum. Kate & I head down and have another tea.
sat tent ? wedding Robbie & Sandra.
inished Gunslinger book finally ! After collapsing asleep on it a couple of times - urk :7
Try writing C++ proggie to do sudoku while tired :) Camel game port to linux
mtwtf - builders, in dub, ... ? swim, cycle ? visit EBS with morgage forms (get form from Simtel Wed) (phoned Simtel a few times, got email sent Monday weirdly delayed not delivered till friday). ? BBQ with musical people in Dermot and Derval's house. Daire in camp. Glenalbyn with Conor and Emma. Share lifts with Assumpta. Friday collect Daire, drive Cobh. Leave Maeve and Fionn in Dublin
Tuesday visit physio. physio actually has a cause of the problem identified I asked chiro lots of questions and ... he didn't really answer the physio kindof answered them all without asking. Talks lots more Root cause theory is that muscles in middle of back on rhs are weaker - shoulder and leg muscles stronger - pelvis shifts with the weak area.
ss - ?
We visit Bray Honda Center with Fionn, Maeve and Kate. Walk into Bray. Get shoes for Fionn. Get fruit. Honda Bros 400s. Hmmm. Maybe.
missing lots of entries but many days busy busy busy Builders digging holes, filling them in. Building, digging/bashing holes in built stuff, filling in. etc...
finish waider's gunslinger book
Getting of driving licence
Stoustrup C++ and Camel game port to linux C++ practice.
swimming
Kate gets chicken pox, has last day in creche. Later Maeve gets chicken pox. Can't go visit Cobh with them still.
Residents 17storey tower protests. ?? and on M50 opening.
Visit chiro 3 tuesdays in row after weekend wrecked poor back.
Swimming lessons end and swimming lengths with slightly different people restarts. Night of last lesson 3 of us go to pub. ANd I go on in to Doolin dinner after.
Visit to Cobh
Trinh's sisters visit and we go on walk in Dalkey - coast, up hill, to Eoghan and Mary BBQ. Tire everyone out!
Visit Brian and Trinh, bring them mover, electrocute self and feel very awake. Changing plug of plugged in cable. In socks on wooden floor. Brian and I passed plug between us with screwdrivers so both made mistake of assuming was plugged out - doh! Cut grass front, get fed. Cut long grass at back.
Wed 6th driver theory test Cycle in. Bit early. Start trial. Oop test starts. One Q wrong. Post off cert and all rest of proviosinal application.
Sat 2nd/Sun 3rd Get lift with Eoghan and Niall. Stag in Carlow. Drive. Paintball. Pub. Accomodation. Carlow - pub - grub - pub - nightclub - wanderisngs drunken - grub. walk. sleep. Breakfast wanderings. Driven home.
Fri 1st phone up and get driver theory test cancellation.
Thur jun 30 last day in doolin. RRB finished - don't have to do it. Just as well! Finish SMS engine design doc. Packing a bit. Out with back sore a couple of days. Sitting at desk is a real killer with it. I lie down often, ... but when get into zone concentrating I wake up with very sore back and can't stand straight. Lie on floor and spinal twists help. ow ow ow ... still cycle each day and swim on wed. swim feels good
Wreck back weekend chop down eucalyptus, dig plants up in garden - in preparation for builders coming. And row boat. Meet Pauline. Crack front panel. EEp caught on fishing line, in fisher people's way. Eep inadvisable landing waves washing us into concrete holey shore.
Other days off for interviews.
before - sending out CV - responding. Havok - Google - Simtel/CommProve - Amazon - CPL people for contracting Telephone and real interviews. Really very very busy with RRB project in Doolin and also get SMS Engine design docs done near end.
Kate to Myles's and Eimear's girls party.
Hmmm. People from a certain company wish to make contact. They could go to Doolin directly if they really need to. Doolin have easily the capability of picking up anything I have done. For the future for me not sure if working there progresses my career at all.
I visited Havok yesterday - thought I was a bit mad at first but actually they're a nice sane bunch of people :) So we shall see about that. Also talking with Google, big company ... not too big maybe. Seem definately to have that excited development boom feeling which is nice. One first phone interview done, others coming up if I get through: another very tech phone, another phone, then meet people in Dublin
CPL person Patricia Lynch seems nice, talking to her about doing contracting. She seemed to have options O2 Vodaphone ....
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 09:56:37AM +0100, Ronan Waide wrote: > Cherry blossoms fall > Get jammed under my wipers, > And screw up the wipe.White stuff on ground. Huh? What's that? Oh, just hailstones. No. Rowan blossoms. It's a bit windy isn't it.
Bike seat left in creche oops. Oh rain - need rain gear. Kate and James slippy on the bike. Kate stands on crossbar and James holds on, Kate changes gears :). Stay on footpath, go round the back of Microsoft through the woods, Bumpy slippy roots of trees. Phew. James is hot.
5000 user add seems okay Hmm. Still can't connect to rrb network. Which bug will I work on ... Need coffee maybe. 5000,OK,Add User u4999 Operator O2 GB Success Regen Passwd User u4999 Operator O2 GB Success email jamesc.com PASS IS ObGb2j,2,u4999,u4999,jamesc.com TOTAL: 5000 USERS_ADDED, 5000 ROWS_PROCESSED.
Up 8:15 rush. Kate must be in by 8:45. Fionn helps get her dressed. I make lunches and get D & K breakfasts. Kate & I cycle off - we go the front way on the roads. Kate asks and it's a bit wet. Kate very enthusiastic. Wearing her red boots.
In work I take things easy. Checkout work I did in night. Add table to db, update config files .... then it works!!! !? or kindof. great fun with pages sometimes loadsing, sometimes half loading ... different pages different behaviour? What the hell? Coffee. Waider says check logs ... /var/log/messages nothing apache log though reports httpd seg fault - and I can see it corresponds with truncated page. Starting up and exclusive httpd and stracing it seems way too much hassle. So I just strace onto top one and reload pages till I get it. Hmmm. it's seg faulting when writing to log file. Hmmm. It figures out log file name from session info. It's seg faulting in log in session close hook. Hmmm. Remove logging in php session hooks ... and problem goes away. Test test test test. Fix php sessions to read/write from master only.
My wikipedia topic for today is Hair. Was wondering with Fionnuala do horses or lions manes tangle in the wild. And other longhaired critters. And why us odd humans have hair in odd places round our body. Well after vasectomy and having to shave my crotch I can definately say that pubic hair is very useful - environmental control. Tempreature. Wiki says long hair on heads probably adornment. And loss of hair because of wading period in swamps? Guys had long hair an beards generally and didn't shave until the 1st world war, trench warfare and lice. Finished reading All Quiet on the Western Front just two days ago.
Fionn heads to bed. I fix up adpfs db stuff for replication. Do trouble ticket code - which not too bad. Do other code that not in main stream. Test lots. Fix small bugs on the way and update tickets. Then php sessions. Decide to make it a class, play around. It is making session entry and updating it. But doesn't seem to be retrieving the session info back SO can't login (read and verify session stored password hash). Finish after 3am.
Keith & Fiona's wedding. Kate to bed, then Daire. I collect Ruth 8:50. Robbie and Maeve and Paul and Karen and Renaud and Niamh (and Keith and Fiona!) and Dave and Teresa .... funny how many of us have partnered up and have little kids. Maeve stays asleep in car seat.
Fetch Daire from Conor's house with Kate. Mashed potato and carrot with sausages and beans. Mike calls and Daire has left Mike's gun in Conor's the last few days. We get Daire to help Mike get it. Back to dinner.
Circle time on carpet with everyone after dinner.
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Up 7:30 with Maeve. Kate and Daire still asleep. Maeve falls asleep as I hold her tummy when I make kids lunches.
Cycle Kate back bike. Back way over field & gravel. Nice weather these days still a little chilly.
Work from home afternoon cvs and cvstrac accessable from home is lovely bug response typing and email sending seems to take way longer than just bugfixing :-(
Fionn off to graduation for IPMA course. Mary collects her. Sunny, top down, blue mercedes. Daire sees her going. Kate cross - was in box while I worked at computer. We cook pasta, Kate has cerial. We find Daire with his friends. All eat. Homework then. Kate wants table trys to push Daire off but then is okay chipping pencils. Daire writes second half of his spooky story. take-away-seven pink, think, ??ink reads aliens reader for us Then up to bed it's 20:05 after Kate's bedtime, just on Daire's. Bathroom, pyjamas, Maeve gets cross so we heat the 2 ounces of milk gently in a pot and bring it up to kids bedroom. Kate sets up pillow, sits up straight, wants to feed Maeve. Eventually milk temp is okay. I sit beside Kate and hold Maeve's head. Kate holds bottle. Maeve drinks it no problem - slightly surprised. Daire holds it a little. Then Maeve too heavy for Kate. We read Kate's bedtime stories - both Thomas the Tank Engine ones tonight. Then over and somehow all cvram into Daire's bed - Bible story. Ring at door - Fionnuala is home and takes baby. Finish stories, Kate puts out light, wants me to sleep beside her (usual request these few days). Can hear kids getting books, not quite settled. Down Fionn is good - nice to get out. Fionn makes tea. Is nice. Then Maeve spits up a lot in kitchen. Mop with Maeve in arms. Nuts. Maeve happy - a bit hungry again after that.
Fionn to bed with Maeve while I find out how to run sshd
(it's not starting properly in SuSE ?
It runs if I give it debug -d option.
And I can connect from outside (because maybe I did NAT thing).
But it dies after the one connect goes away !? :(
Odd.
Very odd.
Can't find any possible relation of that problem on web.
Actually my main task is to put photos on web so I do that, email my family,
email clarkey and waider, email Fionn's family.
also checkout easytimer, configure - find likely package it needs
install with yast2 (and devel packages too)
eventually configures but missing popt.h (find in popt packages)
yay it builds and installs,
yay yay it goes into KDE's panel somehow
I set up rest of easytimer.
Tidy downstairs a bit. Chomp food. Cold. Get jumper. Clothes wash has finished - hang that. Bring water and kruik upstairs. Bed.
Resolve bugs for adpfs. Internet Exploder differences. Find a link click which uses onClick to trigger a form submission doesn't work in IE 5.x. Wah! :( And Bah! :( And Foo. :( receivesms-tofile.cgi for kannel qa/test links in wiki [ open source test tools] Perl has it's own modules and framework to support testing [ qa.perl.org] [ Test::Tutorial] [ Test::Simple] Software processes/methodologies, some bedtime reading [ xp rules] [ ExtremeProgramming wiki] [ agile alliance tools] [ Martin Fowler - agile processes] [ Alistair Cockburn] [ Copeland work test]
Go get Kate. ow! shin scratch bike pedal. Foot slips off pedal. Get kate - she runs and hops with Sarah. Home back bumpy. Fionn. Shopping has arrived. Sausages, beans and potatoes yum. Chat to Maeve. Change wet shoes and socks. Daire. Bike back to work. Kate cries when I leave.
urban dictionary: sheep
waider points out definition 4 which makes me cackle
TODO: find out do cows yawn?
evolutionary yawning - why is yawning contagious?
Vrmm home 18:15 :(. Fionn has cooked yum mushroom fish and veg pie. While food is preparing bread machine is broken so I try fix it with Maeve in left arm and Kate helping. We get plastic bowl and put dough in there. Augh little clip flies off, hits me in face .... and is lost forever. With potatoes. Kate eats fish. Daire eats mushroom soup. Maeve sleeps. Fionn is extra tired, tummy sore :( Bedtime rushes upon us. I bring kids up, routine pyjamas, bathroom, stories, night night. Very fast read of Kate's stories. Then it is 20:00 I'm LATE for swimming. I leg it.
splish splash splosh No backward butterfly stroke this week again thankfully! Backstroke with hands behind back and hands outstretched forward bring head backwards under water a bit though. Humm. Breaststroke don't quite get rythm. Also I seem to be sinking on breast stroke. Overarm don't quite manage breathing. Counting strokes makes me forget to try and breathe. We go jump in deep end and dive a bit. I'm surprised 3 of us are happy but people are a bit scared of jumping into the deep water. After talk Gavin I think. Then in car park an older man looks lost. Nice straw hat. Looking for a green rover. Finds it alright quickly in different place but then talks lots - for 30 mins. Was in pub so hummm not sure about driving. From Kerry - lived in England, back in 1968 to dublin. Surveyor. I heard all about investment in dollars, then sterling. Also into plastics. House bought £7000.
Home. lots of house jobs. Tidy. Search for breadmaker thing. Find wd40. oil breadmaker from top and bottom and get it twisting again. puter on - fix a small bug and checkin and log to cvstrac - niiice Also try to get ssh and http from outside working. Read about SuSEfirewall2 and read router docs. Slightly mystified. Och no time for japanese. Bed. Read book, brush hair. Hair is in a tangle!
How about tmp or temp or indeed Temp or TMP or TEMP or Tmp or :) That's got a nice tempo to it. (re backups of home dirs)
kannel email. I say rtfm lots in, I hope, a helpful way. Re: NEWBIE's 1st post (kannel is running :-) stupid questions
> I am assigned a job to do implement an SMS gateway. Have contacted with
> the SMSC and agreed on a test port account. They are using SMPP protocol 3.4.
> I am trying to make kannel sms gw work.
> I have installed it on suse9.0 box and working in a fake environment.
>
> I manage to send sms trough HTTPPOST and it says Sent in the browser :-)
That means it is sent to kannel's queue.
Control kannel and check status visiting the url/port as configured
in kannel's config-file admin-port in core group
Core configuration
(e.g. status and message queue:
http://localhost:13000/status
http://localhost:13000/store-status )
Turn on logging (set log-level = 5 for example for kannel smsbox and bearerbox).
(do this by ... editing kannel's configfile ;) )
If smsc connection is configured correctly and working the sms will
be sent from queue. You can see queue on file system and see
contents. (read kannel's user guide :) )
(edit config file to enter your smsc details of course
setting up sms gateway )
e=xample of smsc group that works with smpp 3.4 protocol:
(account info/passwords removed of course)
## main smsc - clickatell
group = smsc
smsc-id = clickatell
smsc = smpp
host = smpp.clickatell.com
### ports: 12345 - 12347
port = 12345
receive-port = 12345
smsc-username = "xxxxxx"
smsc-password = "xxxxxx"
### clickatell product as system type for their validation and billing
system-type = "127234"
###our-host = 193.111.111.111 (NATed ip address) (sent to smpp provider)
address-range = ""
### 60 secs recommended by smpp provider
enquire-link-interval = 60
> What I don't know (among 1000 other things concerning kannel) is how to
> process the incoming sms, how to produce it, where to catch that event,
> and how to act upon it.
To process incoming sms you can use kannel's filtering to a certain
extent but it might be easier to call a script and do all incoming
sms parsing and filtering in there.
Again edit kannel's config file to control how incoming sms are processed.
This is done in sms-service group.
incoming sms processing config in sms-service group
e.g. receivesms.cgi is perl script where db is queried, sms reply is built and sent
If you're familiar with writing and setup of cgi scripts it's easy to do.
Otherwise you need to rean more manuals :)
# matches TUC, tuc, Tuc, ...
group = sms-service
keyword = TUC
get-url = "http://localhost/receivesms.cgi?from=%p&to=%P&text=%a&smscid=%i&dr1=%d&user=%n&coding=%c&charset=%C&keyword=TUC"
max-messages = 0
concatenation = true
# catch any other incoming sms
group = sms-service
keyword = default
get-url = "http://localhost/receivesms.cgi?from=%p&to=%P&text=%a&smscid=%i&dr1=%d&user=%n&coding=%c&charset=%C&keyword="
max-messages = 0
concatenation = true
Read the kannel user guide very well.
cvs has moved, setup keys to access from two boxes. also we switch from bugzilla to cvstraq. adpfs big email on msisdn mapping from national format to e.164 clear issue up
ITU E.164 international country prefixes and IDD/NDD for each country country e.164 IDD NDD Austria +43 00 0 Denmark +45 00 (none required - but) Germany +49 00 0 Hungary +36 00 06 Ireland +353 00 0 Italy +39 00 (0 except mobiles) Norway +47 00 None required Spain +34 00 (no NDD now since 1998 - 9 inserted) Switzerland +41 00 0 United Kingdom+44 00 0
Lunch. Race 13:30 to creche. It's threatening to hail or rain. Kate is in snow suit outside on trike (every time on trike when I call). She's good as usual has eaten loads. Meet new creche carers. We go out forgetting bike seat. BAck in. Then we go via Westwood. Across new bridge. Over fields through back of gallops to home. Much nicer away from traffic. Fionn has made salad, we have it with bread. Daire home.
adpfs work fix logo link bug easily and cvstra[cq] picks up commit against the ticket. BUT (it's the silly small things that take time) reset.php session clearout doesn't seem to work in IE https!? It does work IE http and for Firefox http and https. Urgh.
Aie! Leave work 18:10. Traffic is gone. Cycle cycle. Traffic is slow crossing road at central park. Simpsons, talk kids/Fionn, then dinner!
Start with heating rice & potatoes. Then decide we can do tacos. Begin defrosting mince - 400g takes ~20 mins on 20% (defrosted outside taken off after 10 mins). Clear space in kitchen, prepare food. Much chopping. Tomatoes + gherkin. Lettuce. Mushroom. Carrot. Green pepper. All on one plate for adults. Kate helps. She buzzes green pepper and two carrots. We start them cooking in pan with curry powder. Mince in there too. Grate cheese. Put every sauce in fridge on table.
Yum! Everyone likes food. Kate first says No! don't want pancake. Has plain rice and potatoes and chicken instead. Daire likes taco + meat + cheese. Fionn covers Maeve in tea towel. Maeve is in the tummy sling carrier thing. Tacos are yum but slightly messy. Kate likes the look of them so she does have a taco. Fionn and I have another ... and we run out! :( Daire has mince in bread ... with sweet chilli sauce ... and water! Daire & Kate play very nicely while Fionn & I finish up. Hide "bed-ticket" = squishy world ball. Hot/Cold search game.
It's 20:00 by time dinner is finished. Kate and Daire up. Both into pyjamas and brush teeth. Then Daire down to Fionn and Maeve. I read Kate stories. Then Daire Bible stories.
TV with Fionn and Maeve. I hold Maeve but I'm tired and she seems happier with Fionn this time. Scrubs. 22:30 we tidy up and head to bed. Tidy kitchen, kill slugs, put dishwasher on. Eek there are ants. But they are not coordinated so I can't see where they come from. Up to bed.. Reading 3 books - doh. The Human Factor by Graham Greene, The Navigator, and The Wisdom of Crowds
Zoom up hill. Was already late & Fionn had called dinner was ready! Fionn's cooked. Yum. Kids time for bed.
rush blood, after Kate creche home back to work on bike I'm legging it home every lunchtime to check everyone's still going good this week. Today was ... interesting. Palm reminded me I had an appointment to give blood. Which I had half forgotten. So cycle to blood. Glug glug glug. Cycle to Kate's creche. Cycle up home with Kate. Hello. Cycle back to work. Phoo. Pant pant. Falling over would be inconvenient.
They opened a lovely new clinic in Stillorgan last year. Before that it was in a school gym. Clinic is much nicer - make appointment and no waiting. AND they've got bananas, soft drinks, biscuits, crisps, scones, sandwiches ... :) They've got clinic just near westmoreland St in town too ... ibts clinic search - silly web developers.
Lucky for me I'm not too squeamish.
And have easy to find poppy out veins. :)
And haven't lived in England for more than a year between ? and ?.
And (if I'm a man) haven't had sex with aother man ... something something
eyebrow raising stuff I tell ya
(every time you fill out a page with multiple questions
and if you've been sick or had drugs or visited doctor or whatever
recently (been to Malarial area ...) etc ... it might not
be possible to donate.)
I think they don't publish the seekret questions on purpose so that
it's more difficult for the androids to infiltrate our species.
Things have settled down a bit for us now ... hopefully someone has told you ... or maybe you are blissfully stating away from computers for a while! :) We've had a baby daughter. Maeve. Fionnuala had a caesarian on Thursday - 13:07. It went very smoothly, baby came out yelling and was happy once was wrapped up dry and warm. Mum recovered from operation and was able to meet Maeve before 2 hrs were up. Maeve new baby photos Family descended and helped look after Daire and Kate for a few days. Baby and Mum are doing great. Fionnuala came home Sunday morning and she will still be a good while taking it easy after the caesarian. She's up and about and good. Not allowed to do any housework. Maeve is doing all the right baby things - sleeping, feeding, sleeping, thinking about philosophy (making interesting expressions), sleeping, feeding .... Kate and Daire are amazed by Maeve. They're great and interested in helping to look after her and telling everyone about her. Kate loves getting out baby stuff from the attic and places and getting it ready. Hope you got home alright and are having a bit of a relaxing time. Or if not relaxing then exciting and fun! :)
So anyway. Quite a busy day. Daire went to spend the day with Conor and they went to a beach in Wexford. Kate went in to Montessori. Got in to Holles St about 9:20. Holles St. seemed busy this morning so there was a good bit of waiting. Fionn had had intermittent contractions night before and nearly called me in the early hours and was still having them. People didn't want to delay too much. First talk, Fionn dressed, more waiting and more talk. Poor Fionn is poked with needles trying to get blood samples. Ow! Takes 4 goes. Then up to operating theatre. Is now 12:10 and need to top up car parking meter with money. I do that and feed my tummy with soup. Back to theatre where Fionn is still there after meeting anesthetist. Fionn away to get spinal (not quite an epidural but ... ). Myself dressed in sterile clothes, hat, mask. And called in then.
Things are happening now. Fionn is on table and surgeon is already starting to work. In quite a small operating room as someone else is in bigger theatre next door. Surgeon and someone else operating either side. Nurse and Indian anesthetist at Fionn's head. And me. Another few come and go. I look over curtain a bit ... not sure if I'm allowed ... it certainly seems to distress some but nurse says well it's okay. Can't see too much. Very quickly baby is yelling. Surgeon lifts her up to show Fionn & I. Purple and objecting to being taken out from nice warm dark place. They cut the cord and ?pediatrician? brings her away to check and dry her. We can hear her next door but also other voices encouraging another mother. I check, see placenta being taken out. Tell Fionn. Also see uterus (I think! Quite big, purple sack.) out being stitched. Still get feeling people are not quite comfortable with Dad looking.
?Pediatrician? brings baby back, gives her to me. I hold her over so FIonn can feel her face. She's wrapped up and dry. Eyes tight shut. Happy now that she is warmer. After a bit I'm ushered out, we say bye to Fionn for a while. Sterile garments off me. Wait with baby a little. Two midwives come to collect us and down to wards we go. Into little room right in wnd with two sinks, 2 changing tables and hospital cupboards and stuff. I get sent to get bags while baby is weighed and checked. Hey! Locked out after I get bags. I wait ... patiently as it says on the notice. And catch someone's eye. They let me in. Baby is in cot by herself. She's happy. In a bit she cries a little. She is rooting, looking for something to put in her mouth, so pick her up and walk. One midwife comes back and I give baby bath (dousing my watch - oops). She relaxes in the water. I thought she might ... not! She likes it. I take our time. Out and dry and then very fumbly getting dressed but improving with every limb. Is very very warm in that room. Whew I sweat. Then am left alone a good while with baby. She sleeps a bit after her bath. Dressing is tiring work! I pick her up when she starts looking for breast again. Walk around she likes the movement. She holds hand against side of head for a while and goes quiet. Seems to like it. I wonder is she feeling like she's back squashed in womb again. We take some pictures, Very very bad pictures. A senior seeming nurse comes twice and says oh no don't hold her like that and second time wrap her up more warmly so rewraps her in two blankets tightly. Niamh from community midwives arrives with news from Fionn yay! Fionn's good, maybe will be half an hour more. Send digital camera up so Fionn can see. Great as baby is definately continually looking for food. Also one of the notices on the wall is a pro-breastfeeding policy with skin contact within forst 30 mins and feeding within next 30 as one of the items.
A lady arrives flustered with her baby trolley. And a midwife too and another. I get out of way. Then a mummy, daddy, baby and another midwife come and start doing things. I desert that room and Fionn arrives on trolley. They wheel her into ward and get her onto bed and sort stuff out. Then we go meet mummy again. And put baby on breast after a little bit. Seems to go quite well. Fionn tummy sore but she puts baby across. Arrange things, someone gets water, I have coke, baby fed into cot. Phone people. Bye Fionn. Eeek! Car has been an hour without meter money but it's unclamped. whew.
It's 17:00 I catch rush hour and is slow on N11 past Stillorgan. My Mum phones- tell her news. GEt to Kate's creche in S3 17:30. Meet Sandra at door. Montessori's are all playing outside. Kate on trike. Hello! Talk to Sandra and Jennifer new baby. Try not make big issue of it with Kate. Meet Sinbad outside. Tell him all news too. Then Kate needs loo! Back into creche. Then home 18:00. Meet Noel. Ring for Daire - Assumpta was in shower. Tell news and hear about Daire's day. After down to Dermot & Derval's. Then home. Tell Kate we'll go to see Mummy in hospital after dinner. Cook pasta and beef stuff. Phone Fionn tell her we'll be late (it's now 18:30. We all eat fast. Then into car, to hospital.
Kate and Daire are amazed and interested in new baby. Kate touches head and face lots. Eoghan and Mary and Eimear are visiting. We take pictures, Maeve is passed around and then Kate wants to hold her, then Daire, then Kate again ... great reaction from Kate. Daire is fantastic. I follow Maeve around. She does something interesting in nappy. E&M take D&K home and put them to bed and babysit while I stay on a bit. I discover interesting thing is very dark green, very sticky, lots of it. Meet 2 ladies changing nappies too in room. Clean clean, dry dry, baby gets vitamin K in drops, now Fionn ready to feed baby. Good long feed and massage Fionn's feet. Then Maeve doesn't quite settle. I walk around with Maeve. Midwives hint I should be gone away long time. And they are changing sheets and fixing up stuff for Fionn for the night. Maeve seems to have gon fast asleep and indeed this time when she goes in cot she's peaceful out. Fionn is all set. I head home.
Oh it's a bit wet now outside. Was dry rest of day. We didn't send a key home with kids!! Eoghan said 'Daire said "sure we'll just get the one from Assumpta."'. whew! Sheila calls and I tell her news. Photos. Web.
Quiet in work ... getting tasks organised, writing kindof dev guide and test guide/ test plan documentation. Google have a starry starry night logo. It's Van Gogh's birthday. Van Gogh museum.
Interesting in the register on a new HP CEO. Also on HPs previous disastrous inflicting of system on their process. Good philosophy on the information cult, worship of information "information is power" without understanding and wisdom.
tuxpaint proj uses cvstraq "the reason we picked cvstraq over bugzilla" cvstrac.org Bugzilla was easy to install Rachel installs - puzzling problem on qa box - two perls installed. /usr/local/bin/perl blah checksetup.pl and cpan get round problems. configure bugzilla, configure apache and it works
If baby doesn't suddenly arrive tonight (in which case I'll be missing some of tomorrow anyway) we're going in to hospital and Fionn will have a caesarian - in the morning.
adpfs/rrb is released. All is very quiet though. Jim has questions and qa too. I'm organising and tidying. Looking into features. Getting get_events daemon working on rrb box. Install bugzilla. Maybe we will use it to track issues. Bugzilla's developer's guide is a good base. It's perl based too.
A Brazilian guy, a linux developer Optimisation of transport ... and of web user experience. Similar ideas in gui bloopers Jeff Johnson, also like Jakob Nielsen stuff read before. The bloopers has a sample chapter on text bloopers, test for controls, text for info or errors and user documentation. VERY applicable to rrb work I'm doing. I already make things consistent in terminology and am conscious of user experience so that's good. When changes are made revise things for user expectations and often find that simple changes are easily made (e.g. add autologin) but then the changes for user expectancy take much more work then the change itself. (e.g. in that case IF autologin is not permitted for a user and autologin user is created should get a warning, IF sutologin is not enabled and autologin attempts occur what message/screen to user and admin users should be informed? ... all error and success cases on operator edit forms if autologin not enabled secret should not be shown but if enabled secret is mandatory so how presented (change of form behaviour depending on elements code is tricky - especially in web where that is done in javascript and php/perl))
Aie! Bugzilla just installed and happy 17:05 17:10 config file edit, mysql edits and edit via web config scripts. Annoying apache doesn't serve up index.cgi (or any other index?, doesn't index the dir (which I want). Asked autologin questions. Wah. home 18:00 later than intended. Fionn is :( going to go shopping/collect baby stuff. Kate goes into bath. I start cooking pork chops and spagetti. Green beans too. Kids eat too. Daire has bath then while I read books to Kate and put her to bed. Fionn home. Kate must be quite tired as she rolls over sleepy at end of books. Daire's in deep bathwater happy playing. Down and clean dishes, tidy kitchen. Then back up, Daire dry and ready for bed, story Elijah and Elisah.
Fionn is watching news. Talk and watch. See ultrasound, graphs of sizes, predicted weight and size. The master wasn't there. Fionn and Daire had meetings with midwives and John Kennedy. Talked about caesarian. When collecting stuff found out more about opertation and recovery. Catheter, bed socks, lots of drips into arms, stomach straps, 2 - 3 weeks ... or maybe up to 6. Hmmm.
Pub! Drive. Bring books. Straight to Dalkey via Dean's Grange, roundabout on way to Dun Laoghaire. That was easy. Park. See Queen's thing, find King's.Inn. In. Aie! No money at all. 2 bank machines refuse me. coke yum. books and films. 12:10 home Fionn's looking up caesarians on rollercoaster and more. Talk, food, bed.
work
quite busy -
cvs log -d "yesterday<" |grep jamesc -C 1
cvs log -d "2005/03/22 Kids up to bed after a little bit.
Kate very upset wants to go first.
We're cross want to stop the racing competition.
Fionn says I encourage it .. I do I guess.
Maybe if we can put best of both options to Kate.
Good get to stay down longer (if up last).
Or good get to have story first (if up first).
Read Kate Asterix and Dennis the Menace book.
Read Daire from the bible stories book. Saul and David.
Very annoying gloss of censorship over the stories - can't tell really at all what
was actually said.
Fionn tired in armchair.
I get Heisig kanji and go through a few.
I'm tired too though.
Talk about having caesarian.
Well I kindof still prefer least intervention but it impacts Fionn so
should be what she wants. Fionn thinking of who can we get to mind
children during labour. If we leave it all the way to full term and
things still don't happen there will be a caesarian anyway. During
work week. Could arrange it so that Fionn's Mum visits and minds kids
Friday. Go and have arranged caesarian if baby hasn't come by then.
Fionn is thinking natural birth would be the best to go for though.
It will be restricted in hospital to max of 4 hours anyway
so caesarian quite likely but less hospital is better.
Hmm. Yes. Plans. We could always have lots of sex and spicy food
some time that suits :)
We whip and tidy kitchen. I grab cake and cup of tea.
I sync palm back up. (after paranoid tgz backup of last sync)
jpilot MUCH better than kpilot
Pleasantly surprised my addr book entries with big notes are back
on pilot. Can't see them in kpilot or jpilot.
Only thing is applications all in Unfiled.
Sort them into Astro Music Hacks System Util Language
Do kanji - I've forgotten all the new new ones.
common, level, invite, sag, heavy, ride, east, south, weep, child
Bed. Reading Passage to India. the incident at the Marabar caves happens.
I see how confused it is, am confused myself for a time.
Och zzzzzzz.
I say bye to my Mum, bye to Fionn & kids, head to work We've a release. I don't get any much of my stuff done. Look at problem in perl dbase actions for processing events. Find first that need to install stuff on rrb box as the perl scripts have never been run there. Find places where must check and get perl DBI prepare or execute error message properly. That done find version of mysql on that box doesn't support create [temporary] table temp_table LIKE other_table. Even though it is in the manual for that version. Update from mysql mirror on heanet. Then find that the problem is quoting is done not once but a few times. e.g. '1212122'-'some thing'-'foople' was put together like that and then quoted A few things like that. Show Jim. Very Late lunch. In middle of that the project coordinator person sat beside me unannounced and I gave him a demo of what was there. Made the different event types indent and sorted them. A couple of requirements from him noted. Back to my own stuff.
Home. Fionn has cooked omlette and potatoes and salad. Yum. Instinctively I want to drink beer tonight but Fionn thankfully persuades me to drive.
Fionn had Midwife visit after 12.
Fionn found out more about what'll happen in hospital.
Fionn & baby are good and we're all happy enough we know how it is going to go.
Breech babies lungs get squeezed and then open when their head is still inside.
eek! Apparently in the past as there were less caesarians there was
good knowledge on how to handle breech births naturally but that is being lost
now so breech births are even more likely to go to caesarian as it's safer.
There will be a gang during the actual delivery.
Fionn will have to be on bed with paddles so breech can be delivered.
Have to control body so that head/neck is okay.
Breech babies seem to be from 2-5% and caesarian is quite
likely 80-90% with breech. (uk data I find easier than Irish data).
the intarweb is great! 26 October 2001 National (UK) Sentinel Caesarean Section Audit Published A sea change in perceptions of risk and acceptance of cesarean delivery irishhealth.com What is a breech birth? warning! illustrations! :) yeow! omni.ac.uk caesarian
sakako - japanese - breech (foot) presentation; agrippa
saka - meaning(s): inverted, reverse, opposite, wicked
ko - meaning(s): child, first sign of Chinese zodiac, sign of the rat
Drive into town 7:30 ... parking nasty to find. I put car in Temple Bar car park. Into Messrs. Gang all the way up the top. Riccardo gets me a pint of plain. Mmmm yum. He hadn't known we were going to have a baby! eep. Never mind that the due date was today. Sign card for Aimee. Kathryn comes late. Wait with less than half people while rod's pint gets snaffled by barman and they create a minor fuss, Virgil & Eoin quaff their oops new pints just as we were leaving and Kathryn writes card. Walk through rain 101 Talbot. Up sit talk menu food one glass of wine for me. Two dips, lamb, poached plums (wow! ginger and wine stingy on tongue) Virgil has quaffed a bottle of white wine. Oops. Someone gets my coffee hey! I'm STUFFED. Yum talk speeches. On to Fibbers. Coke for me. Eoin & Riccardo sing. Very educational in social sense talk :) I head 2am hope car park is open. It is! whew! Fionn has only just gone to bed at home.
My mum visiting. Fionn is collecting her from Luas at 3ish. Daire has no violin, Miss Molloy has asthma. I do tons of work test everything, make op settings control passwords generated, fix help files, fix and tidy lots of stuff. Home 17:45 Mum reading there's a worm in my dirt for Kate when I arrive. Fionn has cooked gorgeous chicken salad. Yum.
latin phrases - cogito ergo pisces sum :) pisces sum seems too simple. watashi wa sakana desu. cogito ergo cave canis? :) allium iacta est - the garlic is cast? :)
Check tides, weather. Hey! One of Irish Times tides for Dun Laoghaire was wrong. High water 1am instead of 7/8am. Tut. Wind looks 3-4-5 force ish. windsurfing gear on car Daire heads across to path with switchboard Kate wants to go to. She has been tricycling around the car. Push her across then leave her in Daire's care. Putting gear on car see them going down hill. Daire first. Kate after. Legs flying.
I go over to get kids. The tennis courts are terrible! Fence knocked down all along one side. Glass and concrete scattered. We throw concrete into the bushes. We pick up bag of beer cans. Daire heads across home. Kate & I go up path then around by footpath and road to home. Chomp food.
Drive - to Killiney - wrong left, then toward Dalkey hill and take right. Eek? Changes on Killiney hill? One-way I don't remember? We don't get to Killiney. (kids in morning were going to go into Merrion Sq Paddy's Festival but Fionn though maybe Bray amusements instead - smaller crowds - easier.) Lost on roads Shankhill/Loughlinstown. Argh! Arrive at Shankhill roundabout. Drive to Bray. Park.
Kids go play by water. I dress in wetsuit. Gear off and out of car and over to sandy patch near water. Rig up. Fionn gets downhaul for me. Whooo it's windy. Steep beach. Into water over small waves dumping on shoreline. Dryish start whee ZOOM! Out out tack then in with waves on inbound tack. Flying eek too fast gybe so bail out before I crunch up onto beach. Daire is throwing stones into the water. A bit too much wind maybe. But small sail might be just about going so not really. Fly in and out. Tiredish arms getting. Nice swell not too much seems to be coming from two directions. Up beach against wind for half hour. Then inside I seem to have problems getting going. People watching. Ohhh. The wind has dropped. I get going and out in out in lower wind. Now just holding or going down wind a bit. half three a guy tells me to do stuff. can't hear him waves dumping. tricky in close waves inclined to smash me and board. Quite low wind just there? or in general ... waterstart not possible. Daire comes and Fion nand Kate too. Out and in a couple more times. Then in. Guy was telling me when gybing to pull in back of sail to give extra power just before gybe. Grand but I didn't really have enough wind to plane anyway. Tack under wishbone of sail? Language seems a bit older? Slightly odd but friendly. Talk to Fionnuala. Have sandwich and fruit. Go out to attempt maybe 3 more sails BUT get crunch dumped just in by series of 3 + 10 + more bigish waves. Can't get gear out past breaking zone before force of next wave catches me and all and crunches us. Dangerous for my sail so abort that. In we go. Carry gear up, take it apart. Carry it to car. Get dressed. Pack gear up into car.
We walk down. Go on caterpillar ride with Daire and Kate. Wheee! Kate likes it. I hold onto her. Daire in front of us. Walk back. Kate's legs tired. I carry her. Drive back home. Whatever way I've put in the boom and sail it keeps on slipping down into my shoulder hard. I push it with shoulder while driving. Kate collapses asleep. Home. Daire heads visiting to Conor. Gear all in from car. Aedin arrives with dvd present for Daire the incredibles. Ohhhh. Getting stiff. Fionn has made salads for tea. Kate wakes though she's tired but she really perks up and is chatty and eats with us. Daire brought dvd to show Conor. Get him for tea. Fionn brings kids up into pyjamas. I'm ohhh stiff. Daire down violin practice. 1st write in notes. not sure is he thinking of EGBDF or FACE or one up/down from last note ... He gets good at it quickly. Then he plays it and timing is quite good, sound of most notes quite good. Plays a few more - once as is good 1st time on all. Then secret agents looking and without music. Finish up with scales of G and D. Fionn has put Kate to bed but she is lonely without Daire. Fionn on phone to Limerick and Eoin - Mary's Dad in hospital. I read Daire his story in bed before Sheila comes. When Sheila comes Daire runs down and plays violin for her. Kate down too and comes back up before I get down. Settle Kate and down I go.
Talk about South Africa - Cape town, Orla, groote schuur and social work. They hired a car for Sheila and Unas' visit. Table mountain, cape between Indian and Atlantic oceans, swim with penguins, wine tour, townships, Bishop Tutu, lovely friendly people on tours, in hotels and restaurants. Mmm. sounds nice. Kate comes down and I tuck her in again.
Ohhh. crossword, then Fionn takes it when I can do no more and gets all the hard ones :) Except for 2/3. TV. I pound on piano. Launch into Elenor Rigby and voice can't do it at all. Take it easier. Pound on piano. This must be theraputic! Especially Hallelujia. And David Gray too. Put on wash. shower. bed. Reading homeopathy handbook and swimming Alexander Technique.
Pile eucalyptus into trailer with Kate's help. She fills bag with blocks and drags it. Then she needs a break. We get her chair and 2 duck books and the gingerbread man. I keep piling. Kate throws her blocks into trailer. Collect all blocks from round garden. Trailer full. Drag full trailer sideways on hill so can pick up with car. Heavy it is. Blocks under so doesn't run downhill while dragging make dragging hard. Phoo.
Fionn back with Daire. Start food prep - Kate and I go to Ballyogan recycling centre. In we go. Queue goes in left all around near sheds, back out over roundabout. In we go. No spaces to pull in. Tricky. One car goes and trailer in front of me reverses in. Then another goes. Very tight. I reverse in there. Then Kate out. She's not sure. Stands still and quiet while I unload wood. Then pick her up. She wants to be held. She agrees to go in car. Climbs onto back window, plays with mobile. I fire out lots & lots of branches, sticks, wooden blocks and leaves. Done. We move car out of way though it has become less busy. Park and dump our bottles and plastic. Drive on to return trailer. They're nice in the hire place. Home we go. Kate not happy if car stopped but she falls asleep. Transfer her to couch at home and she sleeps while hungry munch salads Fionn has prepared.
Lovely sunny day. Evening drill and screw up plank holding bamboo in place. Screw little board for holding secateurs/trowell back up first. Trying to put protective cover over water bin ... but don't have wire so it's a bit of a mess. Kate helps me in garden with tools but she does not like seeing the drill come out. After kids to bed paint downstairs bathroom over grubby marks and scribbles. And along hall/stairs and landing too.
Do kanji on pc. Adventure I think is over. Poke with emacs at language and map data. Format looks pretty simple. Hmmm. Tempted to get perl to manipulate and could use sdl to display. Map/font tools. e.g. kanji flashcards map/file figurer-outer generic tool => file display and tell it this is number/string/bitmap/struct width n bytes or termi9nator null or whatever Look at frozen bubble perl - game and editor and perl module. Woah. lots of code.
work get ip addr validfation for autologin working very quiet in office at first leave lights off
talk - little Kurdish person liked Aimee at the bus stop. Hmmm. Dutch people see Ireland as rainy. Germans rainy too but with nice green countryside. Winston Leprechaun movies Warwick Davis (I). Artemis Fowl is going to be a movie. Saw Eoin Colfer interviewed on late late show a while ago. http://www.artemisfowl.co.uk/ http://www.artemisfowl.com/ http://artemisfowl.tripod.com/ http://homepage.eircom.net/~eoincolfer65/
Emacs lisp manual - Time of Day ftp://ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/emacs-lisp/old-but-interesting/show-time.el
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Ohhh. Stiff. Was windsurf Sat avo. A dust devil has blown the dust off the solar panels on the spirit rover. Diary. Add security roles, working forms to set and show. push through used and documented and checked in just after lunch (late). Yum avocado + pepper cheese + anchovy sandwiches.
picture-mode a rotating bat! picture-yank-rectangle-from-register
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Daire school play.
Others doing The little people, wizard of Oz.
Miss Ni Caithlain made up their "California Dreaming"
We see two after.
I mind Kate. Go to back with her. Meet Dermot & Derval and family.
Leave coats. Go back to Brian and Trinh and Fionn to tell where we are.
Back to back with Kate and watch little people.
Then Daire's play. Go up front side with Kate.
Dermot there too video cameraing.
Fionn comes across.
I snap photos while holding Kate.
Girl working in cafe. Director rejects her. David is cook shouts at her.
She goes to Hollywood.
Daire 1st O. In band singing "these boots".
Conor O'Boyle agent.
Kate & I outside mostly for next two plays.
Walking on grass. In behind tree. Climb into tree.
Walk and chase on paths.
Talk other parents.
Go inside after good half hour and prizegiving.
They give out good few awards and prizes.
Kate & I go out to car ... shift it from awkward position. Then wait a long time.
Cars all jam up together trying to get out.
Fionn and Daire eventually come along VERY slowly.
Daire is really crying alot.
Fionn is comforting but I'm not impressed.
Kate is also cross tells Daire not to do that.
Slow traffic till across road. Then home.
Home. Everyone VERY hungry. Cook cook. Daire into Brian and Trinh and hear talking nicely. He drives car Aedin gave as present - it's noisy happy it's working now. Fionn gets croissant for Kate she sits at table and chomps. Fionn makes home made bread + cheese/tomato/other on top, olives. I fry chop and fry marinaded chicken. Grill it. Fionn makes salad dressing & puts salad together. Garlic bread. Mmmm. white wine. Chicken salad + bread and cheese. Cappuchinos after. Fionn's Rhubarb pie and ice cream. Conor Dunne visits. Kids have ice cream and Daire and Kate have hot chocolates.
Phew. Tummy and mood much happier. Talking chat. Kids just play all together in living room.
Dad calls tech support again at kids bedtime. John has moved photos. Windows boots a bit okay now. Dad's not impressed Arthur tech support guy didn't properly solve the problem. I'm not sure if he said he would do that. Is nasty - move all and might encounter problem and waste time. Reinstall and might miss one or two or seven things don't have installers for anyway. Definately miss the funny exact instructions people have for doing things on that computer. Anyway. Fionn software to do the HDD copy? Maybe. Linux and parted and system rescue cd? Repartition D. Move D contents up to higher area. direct copy C to D same partition type + size? resize new partition remove old hdd, or make it higher disk anyway And sneak a linux install on so in future could tell them to boot into linux + dial up then ssh into box and poke stuff and fix stuff. Muaghahahaha.
I'm ripping some of our cds so I can jukebox them on puter, play them in car. try sync pilot with kpilot. annoying kpilot.daemon wrong port /dev/ttyUSB1 should be ttyUSB0 kill it, start manually. fast sync - but ? missing address? Hmmm. :( install jpilot - comes with suse. point it at pilot. sync and do backup. nicer - my address entry with BIG noite attached missing. KDE, xdm something wrong. See problem before where firefox won't start, need to do xhost + even though am user of the screen. Now nothing will start. Go searching for X error logs and messages but find nothing. X server log (man Xserver, /var/log/XFree86.*.log) Pah. Restart xdm - it doesn't come back up. start it, - everything happy.
I lookup child psych alot. Read stuff on development and parenting. Oh. Surprised to discover world view won't be same till 15yrs old or after. Ohh. Right. He seems so grown up. Winning is very important to 7yr olds. Hmm. Fear of failure can be bad. Self esteem. Actually. Daire pretty good on all counts.
ER on tv. Fionn print's a thing (in blue as black ink is bad). Tidy kitchen. Fionn doing more work than I :-7 Puts on wash. Kitchen clean. Munch small amount of food. Fionn to bed. I finish child psych reading. I do slime forest kanji before bed. Go to far island - go deepo ... but nope, artifacts don't work against blocked walls there or in other cave. servant toil labout cherry plum single hive village danger color ...
Bed. Nappy on Kate. Book on why do kids do that has a couple of relevant entries. Passage to India.
Home. Windsurfing!!! Yay. Fionn cooks. Kate helps me get gear out, sort/check it and load into/on car. David & Joey out front being dangerous on road with scooter and rollerblades. Eat stuff. After have cappuchinos. Check windsurf weather and tides on computer. But people talk to me at same time. Daire Kate & Fionn see the roundstone truck lifting car out toppling into the water Mums flowers. Aie. Takes a bit to open right links - but bookmark them as set of tabs. ukho easytide tides, met.ie surfdoc link to wind strength marine.ie buoy wetter online dlharbour.ie pier station
Finally vrmmm. Aie!! it's 16:10!?!?!?! must be back at 17:00 :( Oh. That windsurf watch is an hour forward. To Dun Laoghaire. Gear out, wetsuit on, gear together. Definately big sail. Wind looks slowish. Rusty key doesn't work. Swap it. Lock car. One other windsurfer. 2 ppl in sea kayak go out as I go out. nw wind tide couple of hours after high tide. Perfect conditions - except for the rocks. First tack out but close, too close to rocky bank. turn. Nice and shallow on inside side of tack. Tack out to deeper water. Wind slow sometimes so half time not planing. Bumpy over waves on way out. Surf in with waves way in. Ohh arms shoulders weaker. Hard to haul sail so that I can hook in. But other half time yes planing. 3 kitesurfers surf downwind from Sandymount and get Dart back. I come in 16:35 - 50 mins on water. Fantastic. Fun. Pack up. Other windsurfer in. Home.
cook paella. Using up stuff. I was going to fire in all leftovers more or less. Deboned fish + greasy stir fry veg + potato stuffing + ... but Fionn says no - paella nicer fresh ingredients. So without potatoes and greasy veg. Put in salmon steak, mushrooms, tomatoes, lemon. Scrape turmeric into rice. Yay! Fionn quite cross - slams door - I'm surprised. She doesn't want to eat that. Kitchen's a mess now again after me. Generating more leftovers not usin up. :( Now I'm confused. So I wonder whether to feed people. Anyway. Stuff on plates for kids - yellow rice + mince/bolognese Fionn made yesterday. Fionn comes. Whew not cross now. Then Bill comes! He gets rest of paella :) Kids going to bed late. Daire was playing pingus and tux racer. Bill plays tux. Fionn or I were intending going shopping. But there isn't a huge amount on list.
Dad calls for tech support. C drive full. Windows won't boot. Talk through safe mode, dir, cd, attrib, xcopy etc fail to do much. Recommend get someone. Bill guitar piano.
Fionn takes cooker apart. Not back fan. Hmmm. Yeah. Fionn has replaced bulb so can see. We go further - screws off so whole unit comes out. Then more screws top off. We see fan for cooling electrics is the problem. Hitting the covering so hmm. We put cover on so it is higher. And use washers to make higher. We gain screws too after everything is back together. BLISS! Well done Fionn. I got to earlier part before but was scared of electric wires. Silly male. Before bed I point suse at the printer and they talk.
work work work work work
wrote a chunk of new help pages, updated others, put in links
Meeting with Jim sorting out how events work. Ohhh. There is a bit of sense. Ger comes and events are different but makes more sense now. AND Ger is already trying to sort out a sensible burn and credit status in events. Lots of my big email pretty much covered ... waiting on Redknee stuff. Concerns about integration being put back a few times - even integration with redknee example events.
lots of time debug event view issue in IE is two issues - initializeLayers is not defined in IE. BUT if not called (which breaks javascript i.e. get error and rest of javascript doesn't execute (THOUGH there is no javascript after)) then the clicky next previous etc page switches dfon't work!? The divs inside the hidden pages have problems in IE. They just don't work ... UNTIL mysteriously ... click on last one (now outside of hidden div. THEN the ones inside the hidden div start working. Phoo. Okay well mostly sorted.
Aie! Ger sits down beside me 17:30 unexpectedly. Sort out autologin requirements. Pretty much as he said in rfq email he sent. Some things clearer - no email for autologin accounts, cannot be admins. Home late.
Fionn cooks bolognese and spagetti. Yum.
work.
event pages (search result presentation) tweaking
lovely in mozilla AUGH! hidden layers stop working in IE :(
AUGH!
Kate and Emma are having ribena.
Fionn cooking pasta.
Kate & Emma head off upstairs playing. Daire & Conor in sitting room.
Neighbours head home, kids immediately argue a bit. We have dinner.
Everyone tells about their days.
Fionn was in breach clinic in Holles St.
Called me 13:30 she was still in Q would be there a while yet.
Had been calling creche but no answer.
I called crache Jennifer was just about to call Fionn back and it's okay if Kate stays.
Ultrasound, with nice trainee this time.
Yep baby still in breech. 7 puunds + some ounces though.
Good weight, position for breech delivery.
With doctor to try turn.
Poking and Fionn thinks it's too rough so stops short.
Fionn encourages me to go to swimming lesson.
She rang and they said come 7:30 tonight.
Ohh I dunno. It's 19:10 already dinner just over.
Fionn encourages me.
I shave anyway and collect gear.
Hmmmm.
Fionn encourages me.
I've a bit of a cold so I'll drive this week.
Drive. 19:3x I'm there and maybe 8 others in groups 3 + 3 female people.
One grp older one younger.
There is small hope - one guy outside looking uncomfortable.
Fill in name + phone + pay monies.
Sit & wait.
Eek. Gang of maybe 14 women arrive in a bunch.
19:45 head in & change. Locker. Shower just before other people clambering out of pool.
Whew! Need that shower!
Group of girls on other side, me on boys side.
Wait.
Then one other guy appears.
Start asking people can they swim so head over too.
Into 2nd lane.
Lady gets us to front crawl over and back a bit.
Goggles I've never ever worn before I think.
I do my head swing front crawl.
After a wee bit graduate to 4th lane. Whee! :)
No teacher here though.
Girl graduates too.
Shelly and she's from Cobh too and knows Mary and Pauline.
In, shower, dry and change, drive home.
ohhh., catch Daire, has got his 365 Bible stories book, was going to sneak
upstairs through kitchen.
Start telling Fionn about swim but Daire down, Kate is ... doin something.
I say now go to bed.
After a little follow him up.
Big light bright on, Kate sitting up reading.
I off light and sayu hey! It's really late. It's 21:30.
Night to Daire.
Kate takes persuading.
Still sits up turning pages saying :( I can't see my story.
She's been reading the children of the world book.
(Children and human rights. Survival: Water, Food, Home
Education, ...)
I settle her, nappy on (as she asks for it), then she's not settling and
I get cross and march out and say go to sleep. ohhh.
Maybe alright though as she's quiet & doesn't get up and drops off to sleep.
I tell Fionn all about the swimming. It was quite fun. Really quite surprised how fun.
Haven't been in lesson like that since school.
Courses in work or windsurf lessons even are very very different.
Fionn on phone to family a bit.
On to Brian - go out? Glasthule? Or come over Sunday for lunch.
Tom cruise film on TV.
Bit weird.
We're confused as to what it is.
Teletext is corrupt - see odd letters but see Vanilla Sky in them.
Okay fine. Rings very very quiet bells far away.
Still watching - his face is disfigured, wears mask to disco
his best friend. Feel we missed lots very important at start.
Cameron Diaz OH! Now I remember a trailer for it.
In paper read - hmm, yeah, not much more enlightened.
LT. Hungh? What is real and what is not?
Ahhhh. Phew. Right.
COOL
Feed face with bread. Fionn puts on bread.
Tidy kitchen a little. Bed. These nights reading Passage to India - EM Forester.
Quite interesting - not much happening (which I usually think I hate) but
seeing into how Aziz and the Indians minds are thinking. I wonder is
it real - how Forester knows & where he is coming from.
big email on
how to present events to users (lacking event detail, know of
burn/credit status
how to try to minimise bad things that will result from late integration
Put help structure in place.
Go from thinking .html will do, still need content strings
translated so names of items (menu entries, page titles, etc..) will match.
So final structure is neat. html.php which does auth and gets
content and looks for translated manuals and html.inc for menu.
then docs/
Home 18:20 delayed with queries on database qa.
4th lane. Teacher comes and sends us across and back. More students come too.
More guys! A good bunch of people arrived at 20:00. Most people. Was
looking a bit quiet before that.
6ppl for while grows to 9 ppl+
Front, Back and breast stroke.
Keeping legs straight seems funny and really slows me down!
When not using arms, just straight legs I go slowly.
Breathing timing try to get right.
Just one arm front crawl, different drills.
graduate to 5th lane! whee! :) After Shelly and just before John.
Front crawl. Don't move head. Keep knees straight. Arm stretch far out in front
then back, keep close to body, tidy on front crawl, bring back toutch hip, then
thumb up hip up side touching (brings elbow high) then up again.
Lots of things to remember.
Also blow out.
Sometimes I swim across then take breath but I'm full of air so get nothing.
Sometimes I remember to blow bubbles but when gasp mouth still seems to get water.
When I concentrate on one thing I forget others.
And always mess up breathing.
She says stand up rather than raising head and breaking stride/flow of swim.
Back crawl she says I look very comfortable.
Amd I am, I like it. Keep knees straight.
Does a drill swim front crawl first then roll onto back.
Does swim on side drill. I think I could keep head out of water easily but I think the point is to put head in water and practice breathing?
breast stroke good, I find somehow gasp for air sometimes.
Says do arms then legs, not together.
But my body does them all together instinctively now.
When I try change it I mess up and mess up breathing too. Must concentrate and practice.
Arm movement for breast stroke too comes back, then palms cup upwards ...
Does butterfly kick. Glub!
Girl at far end very good at this.
Weird legs straight, together. Oooh lower back. Stomach and hips moving.
I find sometimes movement makes progress, sometimes not.
head goes deep maybe better movement, hands by side doing nothing.
Interesting.
Finish off dive when start, pull then come up front crawl,
come back or carry on.
Ohhh I get called to middle to show others. yikes.
Shelly is quite good. Better much than I.
Both of us go up deep end and swim all the way back at the end and teacher tells us we're
really quite close to being good.
Fionn out to swim. for 19:30. She intended yesterday but was 10 past when she was ready and ... I get kids to bed. Pyjamas, bathroom. Read same two books for Kate again this week as usual - Hungry Caterpillar and children of the world. Then 2 pages == about 4 stories + 1 or 2 psalms. It's a bit ... odd. And the stories end a bit suddenly, possibly leaving out the dubious bits and gory bits. Not sure. We're on the old testament at the moment.
I put on Waider's dvd of Tom Cruise in precrime thing. What's the name. Very nice - Kaffeine and Xine I updated a couple of days ago. Bit jerky? Buffering or codecs? Quite watchable though. I wonder would it be smooth in windows? I love all the future stuff.
I don't do kanji tonight. Read a bit. Sleep.
Anyway. Get n events per page quite presentable in both Firefox and IE by end of day. And configurable can more or less go back to old style all events one page.
At home doing kanji for a bit as well as getting other things working on computer. Make lots of progress in slime forest adventure. As well as actually remembering kanji I did recently I discover the grey dudes in caves on far island are actually asking old kanji I should know. number 6 I'm terrible at remembering. And 9 and circular. Others I have to stare at for a while, sometimes run away. BUT I get enough money to buy spices. Then suddenly while learning kanji in far caves go exploring and find LOADS of money. Buy fishing rod. Rescue princess. Hey! My boat is gone :-7 Oh good. King gives me a boat. Now I have artifacts. I wonder can I use them to open up the blocked passages?