Joe's Journal

04/21/2014 12:39 #58929

Weekend of birthdays
Category: birthdays

After the programming job, (e:paul), (e:terry) and I rode our bikes over to Sameer and (e:yesthatcasey) for Sameer's birthday party. The party was amazing and so was the paneer masala, this lemon angel-food style cake, and the company. I met a few of (e:Paul)'s coworkers.

Afterwards, (e:flacidness) and his cousin came over to hang out with Terry, while (e:paul) fell asleep in front of the fire. I headed out to Hardware for Catherine's birthday. It was some artvoice thing that night, and it was so packed with bros we didn't stay very long.

Carrie, Lindsay and I got some Lloyd's. My burrito was so hot it made me start crying. I had to stop at 7-11 for water. We were hung out at Lindsay's but we accidently woke up her mom.

Saturday night (e:xandra) came over to celebrate her birthday. (e:czarkasms) brothers even came over. It was a good time but I was so tired, I had to take a napchen pretty early.

Paul and I left for a bit to take (e:Mike) home after his daydrinking ended with a tireslashing.

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tinypliny - 04/21/14 16:24
Sameer seems to have lost a ton of weight. Is that right?

04/21/2014 12:31 #58928

CSV Writer
Category: programming

Friday night (e:paul) and I finished a quick PHP script for Meredith and one of her clients. Basically she wanted to call a script that took a specific SQL query and have the results placed in a CSV file, with a log of successes and failures.

Writing the initial version of the script was straight forward logic-wise, although I did have some trouble connecting to a Azure MSSQL server. After the database was changed to a MySQL database, it worked perfectly.

Then I sat down with Paul and we worked on making it object oriented, fully commented and documented, completely abstracted and reusable. It was really satisfying to take something simple like that and flesh it out fully. The auto-PHPdocs are really cool. I've gotten paid for programming jobs before but that was probably the cleanest job I've worked on.

I really want to work on more freelance type scripting jobs now that I have a better idea of how to setup a good workflow.
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tinypliny - 04/21/14 16:18
:-)

04/20/2014 23:14 #58926

Easter dinner
Category: holiday

Easter dinner was amazing. I went home to my parents, where we had so many friends and relatives over.

There was a bunch of delicious Lebanese food like taboleh and spinach pies. We had cake to celebrate 314 years of birthday.

My mom got me an easter basket - Ill try and keep the candy addiction away.

joe - 04/23/14 12:59
The peeps are actually cake batter (blue), bubblegum (pink) and sour watermelon (green) flavored. Candy innovation.

tinypliny - 04/21/14 16:16
LOL @ the guillotined lamb.

paul - 04/21/14 09:41
Yum. That plate of peeps. I wish I was so alergic to all your 4-legged visitors.

04/20/2014 01:50 #58919

Premature liver spots
Category: health

What is this? I don't know. Liver spots? Huves? these spots were not here before. (e:tinypliny) where are you?

joe - 04/23/14 12:54
Nope, nothing! They're slowly fading, or at least it looks like it to me. So hopefully it was just some weird allergy - maybe from cleaning out the moldy garage?

tinypliny - 04/21/14 16:14
Any fever to go along with them? Nausea? Headache? Loss in hunger?

If the answer to all the above is no, most likely they are superficial allergic reactions to something new (or maybe be even a blast from a past re-exposure) in your environment. If the answer to even one of the above is true, then I need to know more. :-)

joe - 04/21/14 12:48
I first saw them about 5 days ago. The day I noticed them I felt a little itchy and hivey but it went away quickly and these spots were never itchy themselves. They're the same temperature.

They actually seem to be fading compared to this picture, so maybe it was flukey?

tinypliny - 04/20/14 16:13
When did you first see them? Are they itchy? When you place the back of your hand on them do they feel warmer or cooler or the same temp as the rest of skin around the place?

04/20/2014 01:24 #58918

Lucy's Ethiopian
Category: food

After the hike, we went to Lucy's for Ethiopian. The food was too spicy for me, but I didn't cry like last night. The food wasn't as good at Garturs but the service was slightly better.

Afterwards we stopped at the coop for a peanut butter treat. (e:Paul) noticed a scallop that was orange? why?

sina - 04/25/14 15:27
wow interesting, i never had been tried scallops and i have no idea about its taste

joe - 04/23/14 12:56
(e:sina) They're scallops, one is just a weird color we hadn't seen before.

(e:uncutsaniflush) That makes sense. :::link:::

sina - 04/22/14 13:28
what are those at last pic? white and yellow

uncutsaniflush - 04/20/14 23:50
If memory serves, "orange" scallops are female Cooking should get rid of the color.