Honey says I'm weird because of my titles
News ·Friday July 14, 2006 @ 20:10 EDT (link)
I used to use joker.com for domain names; they're OK, but they lost one of my domain names (4031.net, without the "i"). I've switched some over to godaddy.com; they're pretty cheap and are quite reliable so far. I like to use register.com to look up addresses for availability, but I don't buy from them.
I discovered the Minuet in G from the book that came with the piano isn't that hard, although most of the other classical pieces in it are.
My car battery died in the Microsoft garage after our "workaholics" on Wednesday, at around 2130; I thought it was just drained, so I got AAA, but it died again after I'd got it out of the parking spot (and the AAA guy had gone), so it had to be towed to a nearby mechanic. Fortunately only the battery needed replacing; the alternator was fine. Honey came out to drive me home; we didn't get back until 0230 and I worked from home the next day.
At work we're getting ready to release Office 12 (Office Vista) in October, so we're busy fixing bugs (or not fixing them, as the case may be). I really got slammed with a lot of bugs this week; I started with 5 at the beginning of the week and have probably got ~50 new ones; I'm down to 16 now. Some are easy, some are hard, some are completely bonkers. I've been given a lot of new areas of responsibility; I handle a lot of the print code, and printer bugs can be tricky. Also I own the object model (VBA interface), and test has been hitting it hard this week.
We're reading through Mark now; I may have mentioned my Bible program before; I have a couple of scripts linked to my email system that send us both a daily chapter; we prefer to read together, but if we can't this keeps us caught up. One script is Bible-preacher, it sends the mail, and Bible-reader listens to commands to select a different book when it's time. I let it randomly select the last few and it picked a lot of minor prophets in a row; it's good to read them but they can be obscure.
We're planning a trip out to WV to see Honey's parents at the end of August; I may get up to Fonthill during that trip too, to see my parents, and Steven Tempest, a friend from back home who wrote me recently; much of this update was first written in an email to him. Must go, Honey's getting impatient.
We're reading through Mark now; I may have mentioned my Bible program before; I have a couple of scripts linked to my email system that send us both a daily chapter; we prefer to read together, but if we can't this keeps us caught up. One script is Bible-preacher, it sends the mail, and Bible-reader listens to commands to select a different book when it's time. I let it randomly select the last few and it picked a lot of minor prophets in a row; it's good to read them but they can be obscure.