The Treehouse Blog

It might not look too much different on the outside, but things are a bit cleaner on the inside. There’s also an RSS feed now, so those running their own scripts or hosting rogue conversions can feel free to stop ;). Excellent. Two items can be deleted from the Axim’s tasklist.

Merry Christmas!

HTML, and its derivatives, hate me more as time goes by. I could understand tables, mostly. These new-fangled CSS things drive me crazy with their multitude of implementations, and lack of apparent usefulness. Web site design isn’t programming… it’s alchemy. So, maybe I’ll get a better site up over break, and maybe I won’t.

General update: the car is fixed, closing on the house will be sooner rather than later, and grades will be ready to look at well before I’m ready to look at them. Fun.

Ship was kind enough to allow us three days off for Thanksgiving. Wednesday, I went to Ship to work all day. Thursday, I wrote the majority of my Arch AI paper before going to the Turkey-day festivities in the evening at my grandparents. Friday, I went to CTI to get some work in there, getting Chinese w/ Doug (first time in awhile). Unfortunately, my car had a little incident while at work. So, Saturday I called H+H, they said the collision center was open 10-2, I show up at 10:30 and they’re not open. So I go home, finish my AI paper, get some mortgage papers together, but not in time to mail them. Today, I wrote up my paper for eXtreme Programming, played some UT, took a walk, and am updating my blog. The school year just can’t end soon enough.

The AI test went well, the abstract algebra not as well. And now for the paper writing… by now and the end of the semester I have at least 22 pages of stuff to write. Should have started that a long time ago? You betcha. Talking with Ian about this over lunch was disturbing… looks like I need to get things moving tomorrow.

I’ve been trying to avoid talking about, and thinking about, house stuff due to the tentative nature of the situation. However, it’s getting less tentative and more certain :). My loan application has gotten the initial approval, and I have some of the standard paperwork signed. I was at the place today, cleaning out the gutters and looking around, trying to get a feel for what goes where. I love planning that out… especially when it comes to running more wiring. But, I don’t have a real timeline for acquisition, much less transition, so things like that still feel distant.

Other than that, I helped Chris get a blog-app set up on his new domain, podpolia.com. Ship had a power outage in the MCT this morning to install a 150-amp 480-volt breaker in preparation for the massive 80kW Symmetra PX, which is now sitting on the steel plate on the floor (that is, it hasn’t yet fallen through ;).