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Model railroad exhibit

News, Work, Photography ·Saturday February 2, 2008 @ 21:33 EST (link)

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20080119: Watching MASH season 11 (second time), Stargate SG-1 season 10 (first time... last season: the threat of the Ori); watched Ocean's Thirteen (last of three DVDs we got it for Christmas); Honey's reading about oppression ("Help, help, I'm being repressed!") in her "PC" (a mandatory content-free cultural communications/sensitivity) class; I'm catching up on log entries going back to September (I'm up to mid-November, yay). The Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design.

20080120: Went to Pacific Science Center for model railroad exhibit; took the bus from Overlake to avoid parking.

20080122: Registered on B&H so I could create a Nikon wishlist: the budget-conscious version is a D300, 2 backup batteries, a remote shutter release cord, 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR (but not the kit, which is more expensive than getting the two separately) (note! DX lens, not so useful on a full-frame camera), 50 and 85mm f/1.4 (or perhaps 1.8) primes, and some UV filters.

20080125: Picking Honey up from Autobody by Foote at 1000 so they can fix her car (scrape from the 17th); working from home. Got a letter from our prescription coverage company: Zyrtec is now over the counter, so they won't pay for it any more; decided to see how bad it would get if I stopped taking it. Worked some on my new photo manager; I have a navigation tree on the left, thumbnails at the right populated by AJAX results triggered by the tree selection. Still working on a good way to show multiple images selected; I was using an absolutely-positioned diff, but scrolling breaks that.

20080128: Worked from home due to heavy snow; PA cancelled the dev. meeting and sent people that showed up home at around 1430 so they could drive home before temperatures dropped and the roads iced up. Allergies frequently itchy but bearable.

20080129: Went to the doctor (for toe); said looks good; said he didn't know of any prescription alternative to Zyrtec. Still wearing the wrist brace. Went home early to pick up Honey and get her car (Autobody by Foote, about $325 total; had them look at my headlight since it was popping out; aftermarket parts, can't do much for it); she drove to school, I worked from home the rest of the day (wrote a perl program using Parse::RecDescent to pars e the MSO chart ODL (object definition language) file into a Word-specific object model format). Still no Zyrtec; allergies are bearable.

20080202: Went out to Black Angus for steak for my birthday; got a free chocolate dessert.