Dylan's Journal

This weekend was lazy, spent hangng around the house with Tina. Saturday evening we went to a Startrek party, as we were invited by my friend Dave (bip0lar67). We had fun, and saw a really oddly dress guy, wearing a white cocktail suit.

I also worked on a few projects. Mostly haver and bake. I pondered an ocaml haver-server (because bdonlan has written one in erlang), and answered questions about the haver spec.

Prompted by those questions, I spent a lot of time updating the haver manual today, while sitting bored at Tina’s mother’s house.

Also, haverdev.org was to expire on the 12th, which is today… So I gave Tina $15 in cash, and she paid it using her debit card (as I don’t have a debit card ATM).

Any people working on haver, please send her a thank-you email. Her address is spoonyspork [at] gmail.com :) I’m sure she’ll get a kick out of receiving several thank-yous from strange online people. Well, at least, she’ll kick me out for orchestrating it…

Hmm, I comment the most in my own journal? odd.

Oh, I should post something about my new job today…

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Wow, functional style can result in much smaller code:

Original, Imperative version: Very long

(Back posting this)

Woot! Saturday, tina and I went to the Hilton in Orlando, to attend her office party thing. I’ve never been to orlando (or stayed in a hotel), and it was quite fun. Tina wore a skirt! It’s rare to see her dresed, y’know, girly… She looked beautiful, as always. :)

I met several of her co-workers, including Ivan, the Ukrainian-Russian draftsman. He was so sarcastic, that it made me appear serious.

We went to downtown Orlando, to Pleasure Island (Like some sort of amusement park, not like a… something else) and went to a bar. Tina orderd a white russian, while I nearly went mad from the thundering music and strobe lights (It was an eighties-themed dance club). Luckily tina decided we should leave…

We then stumbled into the… Irish District of Pleasure Island. There was a pub playing irish music (Dubliners, Pogues, the standard “popular” irish stuff). We also stopped by a gift shop, where I got two irish flags and an irish flag keychain. After that, we stopped into something labeled “Cookes of Dublin”, and had fish and chips, and a fried candy bar. That surely will harden the arteries.

Not wanting to wait for a bus, we somehow walked back to the hotel.

We also procured year-round passes to Seaworld, so Today we went there. We spent the entire day there. I rodesome roller coaster called “Kraken”, and we ate some yummy carribean-ish food. I really really like jerk chicken.

We also went to the kiddie area, where they had a maze of tubes set up. Over top of them, water rained down. TJ (Tina’s son) went in there. It looked like so much fun (and also, TJ refused to leave…), so I went in and chased after him. Eventually I decided to get out (myself and TJ were suffering hypothermia). Then we went to the wild arctic exhibit. Of course, TJ had a change of clothing and was nice and warm. I was not quite so lucky…

Also, earlier in the day we saw an older gentleman on the 10th floor of the hilton wearing a SuSE linux t-shirt. I said “SuSe, SuSe!” and tina repeated me. The guy turned around, looked at us, and than hurried off. I guess we scared him.

So, Friday I was over at my parents with Tina. We were doing luandry, so we’d have something to wear for Saturday (Something dressy).

And just as tina put the clothing into the wash, the lights went out. Luckily this didn’t turn out to be a problem. However, my server was turned off becaue I couldn’t do a proper shutdown before the UPS died. I need to set up a UPS monitoring daemon, or attach a monitor to that server…