July 4th Notes
I finished a consulting project yesterday that had been taking up most of my free time for the past couple of weeks. It has been nice to relax so far this weekend without that constant worry: “Isn’t there something else productive that I should be working on?” And for the first time in quite a while, I let myself sleep in late this morning — with the unfortunate result that I forgot to drink coffee until like two o’clock. Headache City.
Coming from an historic peace church, I’m not much for patriotism and the holidays thereof. But I’ve always liked watching the fireworks, and this afternoon I found myself — quite inspirationally, mind you — whistling Stars & Stripes Forever. Sometimes things just stick with you.
A family member gave us a gift card to Cracker Barrel1 recently, and it was a fun Fourth-y place to eat brunch, even though it’s somewhat stressful to take a 15-month-old to a sit-down restaurant. Afterwards, I picked up Practices of an Agile Developer and Dreaming in Code at the nearby Books-A-Million2, though I am now annoyed to see that it looks like I could have gotten them both for half what I paid, had I purchased them from Amazon’s Used section. I’m glad I got them, though. Hopefully I can find time to get through Practices this weekend.
Jennifer is sitting in her chair next to mine working mapping out our debt snowball3. I’m hoping she finishes soon so we can go crash.
Oh yeah, and I hope to make this blogging thing a regular deal.
Also learned HyperTalk pretty well (for Apple’s HyperCard), and ended up learning PHP at my first job. I still use it pretty heavily in my current job, but consider myself equally proficient in JavaScript. I’m currently enamored with Ruby and Objective-C, but I never seem to have enough time to study them in depth.
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