Spent a week in Holland looking at tulips.
Came home and started spring puttering in my own garden.
Sadly, it’s a work thing. Though I am building an addition on my house. The addition isn’t so much interesting as it is abuse. 
(I love working on the house, its my play time)
The work thing –
Address matching a tabular database to a GIS database to reassign voting districts for our small county. After I geocoded and created a point for each voter (and a bit of manual matching on my part [the software hit 95%]) I wrote code to assign individual properties with how many active voters lived at each property (polygon). Basically a loop of selection based on X Y location (think Lat and Long) and Voters = Voters + 1 transferring information from a point class to a polygon class(I’m talking maps here).
I then used some ‘districting software’ (I put it in quotes because the software helps, but really needs a human hand to make it work) to sum the information in the polygons (properties, lots) and split one voting district into three.
I’ve been working it for about a week now. I’ll need at least another.
Sometimes, I think that as a species that can’t keep everyone fed and sometimes kill each other, we nit pick a bit too much.
I bought my first house, which involved taking out my first mortgage… actually my first loan, ever. Maybe that qualifies me as boring.
Was berated for picking the wrong house, by the youngest-ever political prisoner of the USSR.
Good for you. I’m in my first house (15 years now) and plan on sticking around for a bit. It’s a big move, but it really feels good to own, doesn’t it.
Caught the live lesbian show in Suzie Wong’s in Soi Cowboy with some of my usual gang of degenerates.
You asked the question a little too soon, though. Next week in China, the wife and I will be in the Forbidden City, on the Great Wall and checking out Shanghai.
Well, in about six hours, I will be back from Orlandope.
Getting ready for my art opening tonight!
I took a knitting class, and a cake decorating class. I’m a little frightened that people will start calling me Susie Homemaker, but I’m having so much FUN!
I turned a tesseract inside out, followed a timeline backwards, then nudged an asteroid just enough to intersect the earth’s orbit, thus causing us all to evolve from mammals instead of reptiles.
Yes, I used to be The Peruvian Monkey King.
I bought the sheets, new duvet and the paint and supplies to redo our bedroom… all to surprise my husband for when he comes back from his business trip. My mom and aunt are coming back tomorrow to do the work with me. It will be fun!
I organized a maurading band of spice pirates for a good cause!
Ok, well really what I did was go for a drive and stop at every Li’l Caesars pizza chain within five miles of my house. They have these little spice packets available to flavor up the cardboard pizza, and my best friend is in love with them and often sighs wistfully that the blend isn’t for sale. (As if there aren’t a zillion spice blends for sale already, but what can ya do?)
It was her birthday, and since there’s a huge disparity in our incomes and she’s uncomfortable with receiving gifts since she can’t reciprocate, I wanted to do something fun for her that wouldn’t make her feel bad that I spent a bunch of money on her.
So I piled the family into the truck and we went from pizza place to pizza place. At each stop we bought something (1 pizza to eat on the way, 2 small salads and 2 drinks, a single pizza at the three last stops to take home) and when the staff turned around, we scooped up half of the available packets in the basket on the counter. We did buy stuff, so it is so not stealing, right?
One set of salt and pepper shakers that I wound up having to drill out and widen the shaker holes on, and a whole lot of tiny packet ripping and empying later, I had the coolest present! My best friend was incredibly amused and thought it was great, especially when I pointed out the second one she had missed in the gift bag, since they do a ton of camping and cooking over a camp fire every summer.
Mundane, surely, but an interesting Friday night for us anyway.
mnemosyne, that’s a great plan, thanks for sharing it. I’m going to imitate you–
my husband is going away for a few days next week, and I was wondering what I could do for him, and your project sounds like just the thing. Our bedroom is really due for a change of decor!
I just spent 3 days in Yosemite. Drove Tioga Road all they way to Mono Lake and back. Had Taft Point and Carlon Falls all to myself while the Valley teemed with thousands of tourists from all over the world. Spent a couple of nights at the practically empty Diamond O campground just outside the Park. Took the long way home, over narrow mountain roads with no traffic whatsoever, with windows open and stereo cranked up loud. In my book, it doesn’t get much better than that.
I went to LA and saw the Meat Puppets at the Troubadour. It’s a super famous music venue, but it was the first time I’ve ever been there. The bass player had some serious problems with heroin in the past and spent some time in prison. Everyone gave him up for dead. But the Meat Puppets are back and their set was terrific. There was some young beautiful girl who was wandering through the crowd doing some serious stand up lap dancing. She was my girlfriend for half an hour, and even though she moved on, I felt young again. I suspect that she was on ecstasy.
I went to the Getty and saw this awesome gigantic balloon bagpipe player piano sculpture. It had a yard wide roll of paper painted with blotches of paint that ran over a bunch of light sensors which drove solenoids connected to the giant bagpipe. It made this tremendous bleating farting cacophony.
I went to the Apple Pan, which opened in 1947. Some claim that it is the best burger in LA, I’d have to say it’s right up there. The decor hasn’t changed since 1947, it’s a U-shaped counter with bar stools as the only seating. The owner (daughter of the original owner) has been working there since it opened.
I played mahjong on msn with my boyfriend. Whoo.
I let five children help me paint the family room. Mr. Woodhouse wasn’t home and we wanted to surprise him. It definitely qualifies as an interesting experience.
I’ve been putting together a compilation of classic video game and computer commercials from the mid-70s through to the mid-90s which I plan to put on a series of DVDs and market to a select audience. (i.e. Geeks like me who enjoy that sort of thing.) I’m presently working on the music for the intro and main menu.
Weeded my vegetable garden. Went to dinner with a group of fellow Canadians and then to a Tragically Hip concert.
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So you’re the vandal! I had just gotten that thing straightened out, thank you very much!
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Went stream fishing up in the San Bernardino mountains yesterday morning. I saw the hugest blue jay EVAH who followed us up the stream for a bit. Got one bite, but lost it. Didn’t catch anything, but nature was very kind and beautiful.
Next weekend, we’re going camping at China Gardens with a passel of friends for the specific purpose of toobin’ on the Kern River. I’m very excited about that!