Day 16 - Sunday's work

Today I worked on fixing some paint and adding some grout on our floor. As you can see I had a friend giving me a hand... by sitting on me while I worked.

Day 15 - Saturday's Sun

Uneventful day today. We were a bit tired so we didn't do much. After groceries I was supposed to work on the house, but I ended up spending time with Sabrina. Suzanne was tired and needed some well deserved rest. We are 2 weeks from Mathew's birth after all. Sabrina showed us her amazing talents (she's only 25 months old) by drawing a sun.

Day 12 - Wednesday

On this beautiful Wednesday, the girls get a visit from Sue's dad this morning. I'm working downstairs, trying to figure out how to mix object, items and user preferences. I'm working with my 19" flat screen monitor in portrait mode. I found out last night that it could do this. I have a really new computer today.

But the best news of the day is that Sabrina does a (caca, poupou, #2, choose your favorite) in the potty today. We are so proud of her.

Day 11 - Rainy Clean Day

Sabrina and Suzanne are at the Aquadome. The cleaning ladies just left and the house smells squicky clean. It's a rainy day today, and the mood is perfect to take the time to organize myself a little this morning.

At this point sw4p is now running on Apache, and object complexity has evolved to a point where we can use CSS.

Day 10 (Monday)

It's a relatively interesting day. For one thing we're all stuffed (allergies, cold, I don't know). Secondly I find that working on day 10 is not really productive, nothing is really working. Third and perhaps the most important is that Sabrina as decided to clean herself. We brought a little potty upstairs in the bathroom. Suzanne sat on the toilet, Sabrina did too. Suzanne went, so did Sabrina.

So far we're at 3 pipis and counting. I know it's stupid talk for people who don't have kids but for those who do, you understand.

Day 9

This is day 9th of my new life. Sue's been on maternity leave since Sept. 8th and all is going well. This week isw4p has become much more solid and can now pair objects with items to form a Web page. The prelims are done, now I just need to make it nicer, add features, others.

Next step will be to tag the whole to a DB, add some objects, setup a DB-Engine interface as well as a coding interface. All in all there are still a few things left to do but it's getting better.

Sue was supposed to come back around noon from her garage sale, but she's still at Mel's place (it's 16:30). Sabrina helped me clean the garage a bit but after a couple of hours outside, it became evident that she was tired and I wouldn't be able to continue. Grass still needs to be done, as is the pool, but It'll have to be for another day. As long as Suzanne is having a good time.

Tonight - APRIDS, Humeng and Winemaker.

Little steps ...

Today is an ugly day, weather wise... It's raining, we had freezing rain, it's just plain ugly. This house managed to make me love her a bit more by deciding to leak this morning.

Sigh.

On a great note, Sabrina said "caca" to me this morning, and proceeded to do the deed. It's an indication that she's understanding the process, the first step into becoming clean. She also realized that she can lick the apple sauce off her toast, but I'm sure that's only a passing thing.

Max was sick yesterday. He stayed at Paula's place. I heard him play the guitar the night before and he's pretty good.

Furthermore I've managed to retrieve the aprids.ca web site. It was a long process, maybe because of the holidays, but it was finally done. We're good for one year now.

That's it for now. I'm back to work I got loads to do.

Today it's like this

A good week as passed by. I've left the engine alone to do some work for hxxxxx with respect to the SCORM courses that were created. My interests are twofolds: I need the technology to work and so do they. While I don't believe they should put all their eggs in one basket (the online training market), they seem to be doing so. I don't see how a company can grow and build on that alone. I have my own idea on what they should do with these courses but I don't think they will listen to me.

On the APRIDS front I've been doing everything I can to retrieve the aprids web site but the company Canaca is less then cooperative. I don't understand, I've had stellar service from them before. I will try again. Meanwhile I have a meeting on Saturday I'd like this to be ready by then.

I have a project online which may start soon: formybirthday.idliketohave.com -- a gift registry for people to help others determine what they want for their birthday. All I need now is to check the texts, to add one more features and to add more directed advertising and it's done. Hopefully it should bring me a few $100s a month. I also have to make the emails more solid.

Our family is doing well. Suzanne is back at work and finds it daunting. I would prefer her to stay at home with Sabrina and I go to work. Well, I intend to work from home. At least that's the plan.

There's probably no one reading these right now, and it's ok. Maybe later.

We've had a few good weeks

The holidays were quite nice. With Suzanne home, Sabrina spent most of her time with her. We got to see family and friends, and mostly we got to relax. Sabrina is talking more and more, and she has put two words together for the first time on January 1st: "Come Maman." It was a command, of course. Now she points and says "Come" when she wants to go somewhere.

It went too quickly though. Suzanne went back to work. The beginning was a little tough on Sabrina she has been very clingy lately. And her sleeping habits are not getting better she still wakes up one or two times during the night. The difference now is that I go comfort her, then put her back to sleep. This way Sue gets to sleep and feels better when she goes to work.

My work is going well. The engine is starting to produce results (I see a page). I have to turn my attention towards the engine's traveling functions, the database connection and the login / security system before I continue with the page generator. These functions are very important and will take some time to implement, but once they are done the basic generator should be fast to build.

I'm also very close to releasing Valida out there, and it should start to generate some money through adsense. It's my goal to have it going before the end of January.

First relaxing Sunday in a while

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.

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!

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.