It's Friday Friday

Let's see if I can find my "low-gray-shoes"-ness for today's post.

Rainy day today, but, at least it's cool out. In fact, I closed the window because it got so cold. It's the second day of summer, and it's so cool! I wish it could magically stay this way all summer but I doubt it. After Rieko's last cervix exam, there was some bleeding and we were worried, but everything is okay now!

We're looking forward to Emma being born! I didn't know anything about this superstition about not putting the baby crib/bed together early, but apparently it exists, so I've been putting off putting it together until maybe this weekend or next week. We're coming down into the last few weeks! It's going to happen so soon!!

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Work - I've been stuck working on a project with php, mysql, jquery and csv files. Now that I have the SQL queries set, it's down to deciding on how I'll transfer the data to the client - the browser. I'm torn between being lazy, and just sending the data formatted as html from the server and just plunking that into the browser or being a little more elegant and sending the data encapsulated in a java object (JSON) and fiddle with the layout etc with jquery client side.

Tomorrow I'll work it out and see which is easier and more efficient or appropriate

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So... I saw this nifty comic from C-A-D -- a gaming comic I like to read. Check out the link below:
http://v.cdn.cad-comic.com/comics/cad-20120720-8ae80.png

Go get them Mario!

And finally some kind of picture ...

WT-summer?

Wait... what happened to summer?

Today was super hot in the morning, then by evening, it was colder outside than in the A/C... what's going on?

Today is not much in the way of content, my stomach hurts, and I'm tired but not able to go to sleep right now... because my stomach hurts. Rieko and I did some SQL programming today, and right now we're watching soccer since we're not feeling sleepy yet. Japan is down 1-0 maybe they can make a comeback and win!!

Try-a-holic

Road the bike today yay! ... got a flat tire today... no! T.T  Here's the culprit:
I don't know what it is, but it was beautifully stuck in my tire, flush to the outside and straight in! If it weren't hollow maybe my tire would have kept pressure like a magic trick.

Ah well, at least I made it to work on time! Thanks to Rieko, she came and met me halfway on the way home with a bike bag -- Bikes can't go on the train without a bag, even if they aren't all the way in the bag -- so I could take my bike home.


Today I saw something called "Black Blood of the Earth".. it's a coffee concentrate drink brewed cold with some kind of vacuum extraction technique that apparently gives it enough concentrated caffeine that it could kill you if you drank 14 vials straight... or something like that... but really, this isn't Futurama, I don't think you'll be able to get that many down before you start feeling and seeing some serious side-effects! But I digress. I love me some coffee... I have a French Press, an Espresso machine, a hot dripper with timer and both a hand and electric grinder. I really want to get a vacuum brewer someday soon, you know the one, with a burner underneath and some kind of syphon which makes it look like some crazy science experiment. Now I want to try out some kind of vacuum brew.. but obviously I don't have any stuff like that on hand -.- oh well, maybe I can get an aeropress or something and get some kind of agitator machine... I'm thinking on a cheap solution I can get some kind of a vacuum bag and some kind of a vibrating thing, I'd really like one of those things that gently oscillates blood or a little magnetic thing that we used in chemistry that spins in a beaker.  ... Well, at the very least I'll probably pick up one of those nitrogen thingies that you use for making pressurized whipped cream and try it out! I really want to make my own black blood of the earth!

Tomorrow and Friday will be coding days ... yay -.-

On that note, let's look at my Reuben and we'll see you next time space cowboys.

Summer time is here

It's official (though I've thought it for weeks) rainy season is over, summer is here!! And it's shaping up to be a HOT one!! Maybe we shoulda gotten a better air-conditioner for our bedroom instead of getting something on a budget... And this just in! We now have to pay more money to the electric company! We now have to pay an extra fee for sustainable energy... kind of a management surcharge to cover their CEO's vacation ...err to cover the fees they spend hooking sustainable energy up to their power grid.. are you serious? ... Capitalism 101, hold your customer over a barrel and take him for all they have! I mean really, they get the sustainable energy cheap (because you can't operate on your own solar panels, you kinda have to pay for it -- and it doesn't work at night of course... )

Man.. I love Masterchef... if it weren't so hot, I think I'd do my own pressure test tomorrow... 6 eggs, make 1 3-egg omelet, a sunny-side up egg, a soft-boiled egg and a poached egg. Before I watched Masterchef, I had never cooked a poached egg, then I started poaching eggs for toppings for salads. Soft-boiled seems so easy.. how do you mess it up? put it in the water and set a timer!

So, an update on Rieko, tomorrow brings us down to about 2 weeks until Emma is fully developed, or 40 weeks. We read somewhere that more women go into labour (British spell-check!) on full moons and 8-2 is a perfectly full moon! Our expectancy day is 8-3!! But, to have labour on the weekend is an extra $400 so we're really hoping (and telling Emma) that she'll wait until Monday :p. Also... Rieko started lactating! Exciting no? The stars are aligning, we're getting ready for the baby!

Oh, and speaking of dairy products and salads and eggs, Rieko may be in the final weeks of pregnancy but she still cooks up some mean meals! I had a picture, but it didn't seem to save... So.. let's look at a lonely corgi waiting for a walk:

Holidays are over

Well
Thanks to my coworker, I had 3 straight days where I didn't once have to do any work, it was great!

We went to Costco over the weekend and got us some nice beef. I buy it in roast form to save some money then I break it down at home into some more manageable size chunks. Pictures are included. I wrapped some of the thick cuts in some bacon and grilled/roasted it at 300' - it was great!

Check it out:

At a loss.

It's hotter than sudden death sauce rubbed on your eyeball... makes it hard to thing of fun things to write about. Today we were hanging out with the neighbors and his little girl had a wipe out and busted her eye. Kids will be kids! They're still not back yet from going to visit a doctor to see if her eye is ok.

We spent most of the day today going to the photo studio to take pictures of Rieko's belly -- We got a free coupon for  photos, but apparently the coupon was only for the photo taking and a single print. Also, our digital data is held hostage for a year, then we can pay $5 to get them to burn it to a disc for us... YaY business! I understand they are trying to make money off us, but seriously... c'mon.. how can I email the prints or post them on my blog? We all know that's why I'm there! We're in the 21st century, who wants something as mundane as a paper print?? (plus even the smallest print costs a lot! ) If they gave me the CD I could go to 7-11 and print out enough for the whole neighbourhood <-- that's right! British spell-check! --  for the amount they want to charge for a print.

Tomorrow I'll take some pics (if I remember) as I cut down this roast I bought to make steaks! :) It's our little way to save money and also get thick cut steaks that we can't buy in the local supermarkets.

Lately I downloaded some comic book readers and comic-rack from the android market, Comic-book reader mobi is great... no.. terrific for the phone, but, Comic Rack is seriously good! on a tablet, each page comes in at about the same size as a pulp graphic novel, or you can turn it sideways and read half of the page at a time, zoomed in, and zoom out for for 2 page spreads.

 ... 19 more days.. can you believe it? Check out me trying to knock out some Morse Code to Emma (she didn't tap back surprisingly).

Look our hands are making a heart shape!!! <3 (Yes I'm wearing my black Vibrams)

More than meets the eye!

So tired today!

I swear Rieko is getting more and more energetic as the due date approaches. Today we were out and about walking all over the city for almost 6 hours! I did buy some more pants and sports shirts, they're so comfy and super cheap and they actually look pretty good!

Anyway, I thought I'd just give you some pics today of the fabled transformer I've been raving about:

Touchpad? Laptop? it's both! and it has a USB port :)

see you space cowboy.