So, the last time I was working late on a Sunday night was because the powers-that-be asked me to work a weekend and the weekend was too full to accommodate it with day-time working. Mostly because of a long afternoon spent with my family, my sister, and her son.
Here, we come to another weekend where they have asked me to work, and I spent the day with my family, my sister, and her son. Today was a hot day, out in the sun, and we celebrated that heat by assembling most of the new swing set my children received as an Easter gift.
I say most of, because this thing is an unholy monster that consumes entire afternoons with no remorse. Add to that a missing carriage bolt, a couple of misused pieces of hardware and the fact that we could not get the entire thing together in eight hours, and you have a man who has to go in to work as his children are getting ready to go to bed.
So, I figured I'd share another fun night with you. Today, the problem is that a page with a WYSIWYG editor is not saving the data we want it to. I need to get this done tonight so that they can test it tomorrow and demo it on Tuesday. Will I be done? I don't know. Let's find out!!!
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I will be participating in my first podcast on Saturday. If any of you (who won't be participating in the same podcast) have any ideas you think would be cool, send 'em on (unless they're proprietary, or you're hoarding ideas, or charging money. If any of those are the case, you can keep your high-fallutin' ideas). I have some thoughts percolating in the back of my noggin but it would be nice to hear what you want to hear. I will, of course, link to the podcast from this blog, and the main site (the completely-neglected http://www.bisonweb.ca )
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The latest episode of Dollhouse, apart from being the best episode yet, completely took me by surprise. When I heard Wash was on it, all I could think was 'Yeah, it'd be funny if he were Alpha, but Alpha didn't have those love handles.' I didn't know he was so in-shape. And handy with a razor, to boot.
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We got the entire series of Angel off of Amazon for 57 dollars, American. I don't know what that translated to on the day that we bought it (I don't know what it translates to now) but I know that some SEASONS of some series cost that much, so I wasn't going to quibble too much. I love the first season for its almost Film-Noir feeling as much as I love the later seasons for their Superhero-Team feeling. Poor Fred. Poor Wesley. Ah well...
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It doesn't appear that the servlet request path is being set properly, which seems silly to me, so I'm going to change that. That might be all that's standing in the way of actually getting this working. Then I have to implement a little more server-side validation and I might be able to kiss this pig good night.
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I'm planning a story that I really want to write, right now. I may have mentioned this story before. It involves a man who loses his daughter and leaves his severely-injured, and maybe-dying wife for another world. I'm fleshing out the concepts, the high points, and the relationships. But mostly I'm not. I'm disappointed by how little I write, now, but I guess it's mostly part of being a full-time worker, a father, and a husband. You take the time you can.
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I plan on doing a blog post about the draft. I don't plan on assigning any grades. I don't watch college football. I listen to what other people say about the college players, and I read what I can when I can. I like to see attempts to fill holes, or find out what a guy's strengths are, after the team has drafted him. I'll give my impressions on the Texans' picks, though. Another day.
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Half-way into my second double-double, it's seven minutes to midnight. I've found the problem. There is a method to let the program know if this is a save request. The problem is, it checks the url that the page forwarded from, and the url it's checking doesn't exist in web.xml, which means that it can't ever be that value. So, in the present case, saving is impossible. Don't worry, I made some changes, and now I'm going to check and see if they helped. I'll let you know how it turns out.
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What happens when you're a computer programmer and you spend an entire day out in the sun without sunscreen, turning wrenches and screwdrivers? You burn the hell out of your neck, and your hands get achey and weak. This sucks.
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Lost in the wake of the posthumous fawning over Heath Ledger is the job Aaron Eckhart did portraying Harvey Dent. I thought he was fantastic. And creepy-looking.
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So, tonight's work ends after two hours. I have good diagnosis of the problem, but the server has run out of memory, so I cannot work anymore. One of these days, I'll have to figure out how to restart the server. Can't do it yet, though, so I'm stuck.
Good night, Internet, and we'll talk to you another time.
