in which I write about stuff
I don’t know if I really have a favorite holiday, but Fourth of July is rapidly getting to be my *least* favorite. Not that I don’t love my country and all that, but why does that sentiment have to involve so much noise? And keeping my cats in and the windows shut during the height of summer (such as it is)?
And fireworks are lovely, but not for 3 nights in a row.
short Fridays + free wifi + multiple cups of earl grey + C talking tech with another FGOly volunteer = getting lots of work done on a personal project
I got the FGOly volunteer application working, if not particularly lovely, and I’m starting to do the write-up for the overall “volunteer application project”:http://www.meryl.net/blog/archives/003482.php — it’s fascinating for me to document my own thought processes as I work on a project.
# I’ve been making these little things for several years now, but never with the direct thought of explaining it to anyone else.
# I’m a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants developer (“Alex King’s thoughts on this”:http://www.alexking.org/blog/2005/06/29/development-tip/ are worth considering in context here)
# I like writing, dammit. and I like making little web apps, so it’s 2 great things that go well together. (I also appreciate the process of self-discovery in general, so throw that on top.)
and when they get done talking, whenever that turns out to be, I’ll be biking home, which I also love….
I’m volunteering for something called a multimodal access project, which will involve biking all over the place noting the quality of bike/ped trails, trail entry points, etc.
oh, and this morning I rode my bike to the vanpool and back, which was *awesome* — I got to work with enough energy that I left the rest of the vanpool in the dust walking up the stairs. (yep, gimpy-girl is now taking the stairs!) and got home a little sweaty but very happy. so equation 2:
lots of cycling + sufficient sleep + stretching + crazy summer light + fluoxetine = an Elaine with joy in life.
I have more thoughts (did I say lots of earl grey tea?), but I want to jump back to my documentation process….