Daik.se

So I have not written my diary for the last couple of days, the reason was that the despicable cold-sore-in-my-eye was back for a visit. I could feel it coming on Friday and started to use the ointment I had since last time. On Sunday when we were over on number thirty for birthday lunches I must have rubbed my eye and scratched it as it got suddenly much worse. On Monday I called mr Specialist and the GP hoping to get an appointment with either. However I could not get in with either. At around lunchtime I called the GP back and said 'I need in, now' so I got a squeezed in at 16:45. I did not have to wait very long and was soon leaving with a prescription for a new batch of anti-viral and also a batch of anti-bacterial as I had indeed scrached my eye ('laceration' was the word used, or 'a bit of skin flapping when you blink'). Yesterday I could open my eyes which was good. In the afternoon I had both open. Today I had both open again, and saw mr Specialist. He confirmed the diagnosis from the GP and asked me to be home another week(!). Anyway I can't type much more now as my pupils are still dilated a bit and the other one blurry from said ointments. I'll try to write my diary every day again from now on.

We got up around seven thirty today and after breakfast we all got ready to go to a party. At eleven Bryan came and picked us up and drove us to Alice's first birthday party. Alice is one of Sofia and Evie's friends. Sofia had lots of fun at the party. We stayed until about one. At home we popped Evie in bed and had a little bit of a topup lunch. Sofia soon fell asleep on the sofa while Jessica and I went about doing things needed to be done. At dinnertime we spoke to farmor and farfar as usual. I also had a brief struggle with the printer and software (I prevailed, stupid software, how dare it oppose me!?).

Lets quickly start with yesterday. I went to work at normal time, did a really long day (around 9 hours actually). After work I met Jessica and we went to PeaceHarmony for dinner and then we walked to Cocklebay wharf and walked along the water to Tumbalong park and then from there to the Sydney Entertainment Centre. We quickly found our door but did not go in, instead we went and got some desert and then we went in. We found our seats easily. It was pretty far from the stage but not too bad. The warmup band was loud, making me long for my ear plugs which I had forgotten at home. Roxette came on at around nine and had a really good show. We got out of there around 22:40, a quick walk to Central and we were on the 23:18 train home. We arrived home at around 1. We went straight to bed and I slept very soon after. Today I got up at seven thirty and went to work. Luckily work was at home, as I had already arranged to work from home. I was struggling with MongoDB and the data we had in there. I gave up around lunch. After lunch I worked on using git bisect to work out which commit broke our performance. It took me quite a while to get all the moving parts sorted. I believe I have now got a nice script that will let me track it down. I ran it in the evening and due to some narrow defaults it did not track down the commit but the script worked. We went to number thirty for dinner as it was Bryan's birthday.

I got up and made the train which was good. At work I went into performance work which was good. I finally installed the stupid mac pro I had struggled with yesterday. I also secured a third monitor, however I will have to return it later this week. Right now though, I have a huge empire with four computers and three monitors! I then went into writing some scala. I do not really know scala and the tool support was, well, limited. I got stuff to compile and eventually also run, for a definition of the word. In the afternoon we left and I went with Ryan to to the flower shop and then to the perfume shop as it was his anniversary. Luckily for us we also managed to make the 4.24 train home. At home I spoke to formor Ulla instead today as we will be out tomorrow. I am not entirely convinced she understood that we will not speak tomorrow. I hope so, as we will not be home tomorrow evening. Following on that, I will not write my diary entry tomorrow as we will be out. What happens tomorrow then? We are going to see Roxette. While neither Jessica nor I are huge fans of Roxette we like them enough to see them. And also this is probably the last ever chance we ever get to see them. It should be good either way.

I got up and as I was having breakfast little Evie was whining in the room. So I got her up and put her in bed with a tired mamma. I finished my breakfast and made the train. At work I tracked down the bug I had been working on yesterday. It felt like I was knee-deep in lasagne at the end of it (lasagne code, being related to spaghetti code, bad because it has too many layers). I eventually fixed it but could not commit because the main build was red. I turned my attention to my tasks for tomorrow which involved installing a mac pro with Linux (so it becomes usable, stupid apple and their silliness with java and other things). The other did not boot the install disk, I found out what the problem was and started the fix but could not verify due to it being time for status meeting, the last one. When I came back it was time to hurry to the train. Nothing really special happened as such.

The weather was quite good this morning, if somewhat cool. I got up and made the train which is always good. At work I did a number of small things. I got two machines moved to my desk (my empire is growing! I now have four machines and two monitors). I investigated two bugs but made no real progress on any of them. I spoke to a few people about new performance builds. We went on the early train home, which was nice. I like going on the 4.24 train. At home it was windy and rainy, worst kind of weather! Sofia seemed happy with the day. She did not want to go in the morning but she seems to have had a good day.

We were tired again this morning and did not get out of bed until after 8. The weather was nice and sunny so we put on a load of laundry. We hung the laundry and then went over to number thirty. There we met Naomi and of course had some tea. We left late and did not get home until twelve thirty. After lunch we put the little one in bed and I went out and mowed the lawn. Sofia came along and had "one of those blue ear things on", which was her way of describing the ear muffs. It was hard work, mostly because the grass was very long and still wet. After I was done with the mowing I tried to mouse proof the compost again, as the little buggers keep getting in. Once done with that it started to rain lightly and thundering. So we got the now dry laundry in and then went inside for afternoon tea. Evie woke up a bit worried about the thunder but after a quick cuddle she went back to sleep. Inside it was domestic duties until dinnertime. After dinner it was bath time for Sofia and then quickly to bed.

We were tired and slept in today. We did not get out of bed until around quarter past eight! We had to wake up Sofia and I think Evie was just about to wake up when I went in to get them. We got up and had breakfast after that we got ready and went down to the shoos. Me and the girls started and Jessica hung yesterday's laundry out and then came after us. Sofia and I went to the park. While I was certain it would be a bit wet I thought it would be fun for her to have a quick play. It was soaking in places, but we could still go on the swing and the beetle. As we walked around the corner Sofia started giggling and running. It was good to hear and see her so happy. We were only there for a little while before we met Jessica and went to the shops. After shopping we stopped by number thirty for some tea. It was already eleven so we were soon on our way home for lunch. After lunch I whippersnipped the grass along the fence and will mow it tomorrow. As I was doing that it started to rain so I quickly got all the laundry in. It was still damp. After about an hour of heavy rain it cleared up again and I hung the laundry back out. I did a few other things and had fika. Right before dinner I went out and got the laundry in again, it was now dry. I then went in and cooked dinner. During dinner we spoke to farmor and farfar as usual for Saturdays.

It was raining properly this morning. It did not prevent me from making the train though which was good. On the train in Ryan and I executed our first byte code! Very exciting times, for the first time we tied our pieces together and it worked, sort of. True it seq faulted but it did execute the first couple of byte codes! At work I had meetings and stuff happening leaving only short gaps here and there to do work in. But it was good. On the train home I continued to tidy up my parser to make it return all bits needed for proper execution. The evening was just a quiet evening in which was nice.

I got up and just made the train in the morning, I did not have to run but still not a lot of time to spare. The weather was still just not raining but as close as it can get to rain without actually raining. At work I did 20% which was good, I got stuff done which was good. Nothing really interesting happened though. The weather was still bad. I left just in time to make the 4.53 train home. In Glenbrook it was raining, such bad weather lately. At home I spoke to farmor Ulla as usual.