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On Swinging
I've been spending a lot of time swinging lately. I have a small park across the street from my house and my daughter (now 1.5 years old) could spend all day in the swing. "Outside!", she says to me. "Schwing!" She grabs onto one of my fingers and together we walk across the street to the park. It's adorable.
I've met more of my neighbors in the last 2 months than I have the last 9 years living in my house. There is a woman and her little boy who is 2 who lives on the other side of the park who I run into frequently. There is also a rough looking guy (who is a total softie with his kid) who also has a 2 year old I've run into a couple times. I've been going to the park with my girl to swing almost every night after dinner. It seems to help get all her energy out before bed.
We are still having major sleeping problems. She is still waking up 3-5 times per night. My wife sleeps with her and I sleep alone in the computer room. It's not ideal. We are hoping to get my computer moved somewhere else, and my daughter will take the computer room as her room and I will move back in with my wife. My house is very small, so space is at a premium. I don't want to give up my computer room, but it has to happen. We have been trying to get her room ready for a while now, but it has been really tough to find free time to get it done.
I also have a quick update on my dating life... I've largely quit looking for dates. It takes a lot of effort to get a date and I just don't have the energy. However, last winter I was at an indoor playground and I wound up chatting with a lady. She ended up giving me her business card and I followed up with her. We met again at the indoor playground a couple months later and chatted some more. She has a pretty important job and travels a lot so we haven't been able to meet up since but we have a date scheduled for next week.
She is married and we haven't discussed open marriages or anything like that. I'm not 100% that our meetup next week is a date, but it sure seems like a date to me. I asked if she would meet for drinks, she said yes, I suggested a couple pubs, she countered with a fancy/classy bar downtown. She said that they have live music later in the night, so we are meeting there at 8:30 next friday.
It's going to be interesting. Is it actually a date? Does her husband know? Is she in an open marriage?
Find out in the coming weeks.
-- Snow
FBI Agent Backflips at Club, Gun Shoots Man in Leg
Emoji: Hold the Soul
And So It Begins
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Independents Outnumber Republicans in California
California Republicans hit rock bottom
The state that spawned the "Reagan Revolution’’ and Richard M. Nixon just experienced a watershed moment — the California Republican Party was officially relegated to third-party status.
In the culmination of the withered state GOP’s long slide toward near-political irrelevance here, new voter registration data released this week show the once-robust party trails behind both Democrats and “no party preference” in the nation's most populous state. The California Republican Party is now outnumbered by independent voters by 73,000, according to Political Data Inc., which tabulates voter file data from county registrars.
I Didn't Mech Get Sleep Last Night
Not because I had to get up early but because I woke up hours before my alarm yet could not get back to sleep.
So I got to work real early.
A little over a month ago I kicked coffee cold-turkey. For a month I had really bad headaches, for two weeks I had really bad nausea.
Thursday of last week my witch doctor advised me to start drinking coffee again: "You don't have to tell me twice".
This because I often experience great weariness despite being well-resulted.
I just signed a one-year lease for a permanent - that is, personal, just for me - desk at a downtown Portland co-working facility.
Co-working is all the rage these days. We Work and this one other I happened upon are likely venture funded but the privately-held Nedspace is far better than we work.
It's on the eleventh floor of the Union Bank tower on Broadway - the main drag through downtown. I learned the hard way that I have yet to overcome my fear of heights. Not wanting to make my fear worse I carefully, very slowly reached my hand out then touched the lobby window yet remained unconvinced that its glass was really there.
I'll even have a receptionist.
#!/bin/sh
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Kobo Clara HD E-Reader
It's About Time to Drink Cockroach Milk
Take a swig of cockroach milk, the next great food trend
Roach crystal juice seems like something the Gates Foundation would promote.
If you want to live in space, you're going to learn to love roaches.
If you want to live on Earth as a non-(m|b|tr)illionaire, you're going to learn to love roaches.
If it's too difficult to extract the milk, you can simply eat the roach whole.
Automating Soggy Jobs: My First Baby Steps
Before you howl with too much laughter, please understand that I feel far more comfortable writing device drivers than web applications.
I just now finished listing all ninety locations for Synopsis:
The first thing I want to do to automate this is to list a company on
just one page, with a form for all of its locations, then have a
computer program propagate those listings to all the local pages.
This has the complication that many of those local pages won't exit
yet; for example I created the page for Enschede as I was working on
Synopsis' listings in Holland.
But a good start would be to only propagate the listings to pages that
already exist, with manual work required to create the new local
pages.
This because I have to look up the state or province and possibly the
county for almost all over the new localities. I also have to create
folders for them. From time to time I even list an entirely new
country.
While I do plan to use some manner of database by the time I'm done, I don't plan on specifying its schema myself - I'd hire a DBA to do that. I've never really understood why so many people are so into SQL. If I did use SQL I would use PostgrSQL but most likely I won't use SQL.
I'm going to do all the automation in Python, for the simple reason
that I'm already good at coding Python. There are many web
application technologies, each with their own strengths and
weaknesses. I'm not religious about them.
