Category archives: Vindaloo

When we identify with something or someone, we tend to ascribe to it the values that we ourselves hold as important. I'm realising that this is a serious impediment to properly understanding your world (though it does make for more harmonious relationships).

Over the last couple of months I've come to realise that there are ...

Evening has been mostly frustration, and I'm beginning to lose my drive to continue. Finally (I think) got the group-statistics summaries working, but I've discovered 3 or 4 show-stopper bugs in the process (that darn PostgreSQL hang being the biggest one).

On a more interesting note (well, for me), I finally moved up to 20lbs ...

Yes, backups are important Victoria, so like a good little Mikey I tried to back up this blog in XML format, only to find out that somehow lists don't have .extend methods in the version of Python we're running the Zope site on? Weird. I thought we were on 2.3.3.

Took grams to Mother's day brunch this afternoon, then dropped in for a game of snooker to find the kids there. For months now they've been going down and playing on the table unsupervised (and messing things up rather horribly). I spent a half hour or so giving them some basic ground rules (don't hit ...

Have been thinking quite a bit about Lisa's thesis over the last couple of days. No particular reason to do so, after all, she didn't ask me to. The problem is that some part of me looks at the part doing the thinking and says "you are obviously just infatuated with the woman and trying ...

Had a pleasant dinner conversation with Dan, XXX and two more of XXX's friends. Went to the Friendly Thai on Eglinton, which is a very nice little place to get good Thai food. However, through some weird vibe @ the start of the meal we wound up not ordering a group meal (which is the ...

Tim, Selena and myself all apparently had trouble sleeping last night. I'm still feeling sort-of out of it, which could be part of the original problem or simply a reaction to the messed up sleeping schedule. Just took a quick nap that turned into 4 hours yet didn't refresh me at all.

Grams is out of the hospital and resting at home. Rosey and I picked her up this afternoon.

I had a very pleasant late-afternoon sitting in Starbucks with Lisa. There's something satisfying about watching a beautiful, intelligent woman thinking and explaining something about which they really care. She does this cool thing where she flares ...

Hmm, seems like it's my day to have plans fall through. Oh well. Tim's going to come by and work later instead.

Apparently the nurses figured she needed to see a doctor immediately, rather than tomorrow. Not much else in the way of information. I'm going to try to get part of tomorrow's work done tonight so I can go down and visit her tomorrow afternoon.