Come Adventuring

I’ve spent another weekend writing code on my off time. It’s a bad habit of mine that I understand. truthfully if I could find the key that brings the whole family together in what they want to do and have fun I would certainly throw the computer in the lake and be with the family. That being said we are all fine with doing what we want and need to.

Kel did give me a Father’s day present of her name in Egyptian Hieroglyphics and that was very cool.

While I punch away at the keys I can only keep in mind this one poem by and anonymous author:

What Makes a Dad

God took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun,
The calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature,
The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages,
The power of the eagle’s flight,
The joy of a morning in spring,
The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity,
The depth of a family need,
Then God combined these qualities,
When there was nothing more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
And so,

He called it … Dad

Wishing you and your’s a Happy Fathers Day.

Last Wednesday I accepted two new feature sets to work on that are to be delivered by this thursday. It is so nice not working only on fix tickets. It also meant that I needed to work all weekend to get ahead and ensure, at least from the backend, that the features were complete.

Friday night consisted of a quick dinner at the in-laws. Afterwhich Kel had her school play. It was the “Wizard of Oz” and her part was a munchkin. I was really beat since being up at 3:00 am that day. The play was really kinda neat.  We got homw around 9:00 pm and decided that I better get some shut eye for what was going to be a long weekend.

Up a 2:00 a.m. I got started on the feature that I planned for that day. Refactoring a bunch of python code and changing a few functionalities within SocialSpark messaging wasn’t difficult, just taking a long time. Kel has a friend over about 2:00 p.m. Subsequently it was a trip to the grocery store for me. Afterwhich I hung out with the family and watched a movie.

6:00 p.m. Kel left with her friend to stay the night over there. Back to coding for me until 9:00 p.m. Then crashed.

Midnight! Back up back to coding. I didn’t complete the feature from the prior day as I hoped since the second feature was way more complicated. I was having a strange problem where a service I was contacting wasn’t authorizing a clearly correct username/password. several hours later I figured out that a simple extra whitespace was causing the problem.

6:00 a.m. feature one complete and time for a nap! 8:00 a.m. and back up again. To my surprise the second feature was rather easy to finish and by 10:00 a.m. I had done so!! That left me time to do the household things I needed to do.

Grocery store for a full list, we now have food in the house. Laundry, I now have clean clothes too. Flushed the radiator in Rachael’s car. It had been overheating and as a temp fix I added a bunch of water the other day. Now with fresh anti-freeze it takes a lot longer to begin to overheat, something I need to explore, but only if sitting idle for like twenty minutes.

Checked the A/C in my car to figure out why it blew hot are in really hot weather. Discovered the front end had damamge and the condensor had been bent, but not leaking. Resolved myself not to worry about it for a while. Went out for Chinese with the family about 4:00 p.m. as I was starving.  

All in all it was a long weekend and I got plenty done. I really do prefer to code in the early mornings and leave the day for the family. It just makes for long days. Sleep came early at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, yet back up at 3:00 a.m. for research on a new idea.