After working in the yard, we went out to dinner with my family for my sister Mary's birthday. Well, we struggled to plan something for two hours on the phone first, and then went out to Crust for dinner. We got a cheese, buffalo chicken and gluten-free veggie. Not sure what the gluten bigoted crust was made from but it was amazingly thin and crispy.

Afterwards we headed over to Hardware with Mary and Emily and to hang with (e:flacidness) and his friend Ra(sp?)

After getting home from work, (e:paul), (e:terry) and I worked on getting the garden beds cleaned up and ready. Terry mowed the lawn and trimmed the huge plant in the backyard, and Paul and I tilled and weeded the raised beds. We used the chipper to chop up the branches - it was fun.






Paul saving the baby lettuce

Terry tearing it up

We accidently uncovered a rabbits nest in one of the beds. I was so afraid we were going to find a baby rabbit massacre nearby. Thankfully they've already moved somewhere else in the yard.

(e:Paul) noticed the doors on the church of the Ascension turned red recently. They got rid of the nice solid hardwood doors and now are plasticy and red. Were they sold? What's left?

I found a really good resource for learning new languages, and getting a quick rundown on syntax, operands, logic etc with an example of each. I used it yesterday when I needed to write a Perl script for AutoCAD, but I found it really useful for getting a better hand on javascript.

Learn X in Y Minutes

The weirdest language I've ever seen is on there. It's called brainfuck . Everything in brainfuck with only 8 commands is done by manipulating a pointer over a 30,000 cell array. The compiler for it can be only 200 bytes. Why does it exist? Keine Ahnung.

This, for example, will print out the letter A:

++++++ [ > ++++++++++ < - ] > +++++ .

Yesterday I had to watch a mud puddle for an hour.

Work had me go out to some sprawly street in Hamburg for a septic system perc test. Basically, you dig holes in the ground, fill them with water, and measure how fast the water is absorbed, so you can design how big the septic system needs to be. It's as interesting as it sounds.

When I got there, the contractor was being a dick to me, for riding a bike there (I was early), for not knowing where to test (my boss said the contractor should know) - but I talked to him for a while, he got much nicer and apologized for being rude before.

On the positive side, I got to leave the office to ride my bike for 16 more miles, making 34 for the day). The weather was amazing. I still want another job.



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