Suzanne's home for the holidays. She's taking two weeks off and that's going to be wonderful. She was also home on Friday because of the snow storm that fell on us that morning. 40 cm of snow. I shoveled the driveway three times, each time harder then the last. The city truck also managed to block our driveway twice with a block of hard snow over three feet (a meter) high. I'm still feeling the pain. This was a big one. Too bad Sue left her car at the hotel where she had her Xmas party. For one we had to drive to move it out of there and put it in her garage at work. Even worst was that had the car been in the driveway I would have had less snow to pick up.
Yesterday we did some stuff like the groceries and all, some cleaning, but all in all it was an easy day. We woke up late and that felt quite good. I purchased five bottles of wine for the holidays (Candidato Tempranillo). It will help us relax over the holidays. While Suzanne was doing her groceries Sabrina and I worked on her Xmas present, a painting from Saby.
On the work side I've got the application engine all figured out. In my brain of course. Tonight I'll take some time to write it down to make sure I don't forget. Basically there's going to be two compilers in the app, one to build the page structure, the other one to build the page request. Everything is an object. I'll discuss it in more details later.
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Thursday, December 15, 2005
HTML View and I am beat!
Today was an interesting day. I barely slept, between 12:30 and 2:30, and between 5:30 and 7:00. That's probably why when Sabrina took a nap at 14:30 I fell asleep beside her crib on the carpet. We slept soundly for 2 hours straight. She did sleep half an hour in the car when I went to get Max at his mom's place this morning. She woke up at the Volvo dealership - I had to get a headlight fixed.
It's now 23:20, I am tired. Suzanne is at her Christmas party and is taking a cab back here. We're expecting a snow storm tomorrow AM and I have to drive both her and Max to Montreal, with Sabrina in the back. That'll be fun. What's great is that I was able to put Sabrina to bed easily. She did not need her mother's milk to fall asleep which is excellent. She did drink a full cup of water though. The funniest thing Sabrina did today was to play the drum on a yoghurt container. For a 16 mo old she's got a lot of beat!
Work wise I prepared the membership screen for Validalotto and added the first basic HTML envelope around the SWAP code. It came out perfectly. I may add background color to the page object before going to bed, just to see something better then text appearing on a SWAP web page.
I am beat though, so maybe tomorrow!
It's now 23:20, I am tired. Suzanne is at her Christmas party and is taking a cab back here. We're expecting a snow storm tomorrow AM and I have to drive both her and Max to Montreal, with Sabrina in the back. That'll be fun. What's great is that I was able to put Sabrina to bed easily. She did not need her mother's milk to fall asleep which is excellent. She did drink a full cup of water though. The funniest thing Sabrina did today was to play the drum on a yoghurt container. For a 16 mo old she's got a lot of beat!
Work wise I prepared the membership screen for Validalotto and added the first basic HTML envelope around the SWAP code. It came out perfectly. I may add background color to the page object before going to bed, just to see something better then text appearing on a SWAP web page.
I am beat though, so maybe tomorrow!
Epiphany
Today I've watched Sabrina try to say the names of her puzzle animals. It takes a parent to understand what a toddler is trying to say, for sometimes it all sounds pretty much the same. Suzanne had a hard week, and asked if I could make sure she slept well tonight. Hence I took care of Saby every time she woke up. So far I've really slept between 12:30 and 2:30, and I now realize I'm not going back to bed. Watching her fall asleep gave me a revelation.
I realize that I wish to work from home, and for myself if possible. This demands a lot of work and effort, something I'm not stranger to. My biggest problem is that Suzanne doesn't see it like that. She is a believer of normal 8-5 jobs. While my current role is to take care of Sabrina during the day, I unfortunately rarely work during the day. I rarely start before 9:00pm.
The trick is that I try for another year to start showing profits after which I get an 8-5. I should be giving 14 hour/days to do what I have to do, and not 3 or 4 at night. Sometimes I feel the cards are stacked against me.
The only problem is that I never, never give up. It's 4:41 now, time for a bit of work.
I realize that I wish to work from home, and for myself if possible. This demands a lot of work and effort, something I'm not stranger to. My biggest problem is that Suzanne doesn't see it like that. She is a believer of normal 8-5 jobs. While my current role is to take care of Sabrina during the day, I unfortunately rarely work during the day. I rarely start before 9:00pm.
The trick is that I try for another year to start showing profits after which I get an 8-5. I should be giving 14 hour/days to do what I have to do, and not 3 or 4 at night. Sometimes I feel the cards are stacked against me.
The only problem is that I never, never give up. It's 4:41 now, time for a bit of work.
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