Sheesh. Wake up this morning, and it’s raining again. With more forecast for tomorrow. Maybe on Friday it’ll clear up, but it’s starting to sap my energy. Yesterday, between the showers, I managed to get the onions planted. The only thing left to go in is the garlic, and I’m trying to decide between planting the stuff that’s started to sprout in my kitchen and buying some stuff a nursery has given a head-start for me. Might get to that today if the water ever stops falling from the sky.
Most of the rest of yesterday was spent fixing bugs. As is typical, when encountering a bug, I started by stripping out all the code that’s just plain wrong and putting in comments about how it should work. Today, I try to write code that works correctly for one particularly troublesome bug, but it looks as though once again, every bug I fix will mean negative lines of code. Who says metrics aren’t useful?
One other notable thing yesterday: I had a hankerin’, so I headed up to Long John Silver’s for lunch. The fish was as tasty as I remember it from back before all the local locations went away (early 1980s, as I recall), but the Hushpuppies were disappointing. The outsides were too slick and the darned things lacked any sort of texture at all. Sigh. So I’m guessing that at some point I’m going to have to fill up a container with hot oil and make some myself. I guess that’s one item worked out for the tailgating menu this year. Reminds me that the season starts in two short days.
Links? Well, they’re in short supply today, too. Sorry about that. The rain has my mood down, and there are just too many things I don’t want to blog about today.
- Mark Cuban points out how Yahoo forces RIAA staff cutbacks by making all the music you can download available for five dollars a month. As he points out, that’s going to make it tough for the RIAA to argue that some kid with some downloaded songs cost them thousands or millions of dollars. No sir. Five bucks. [slashdot]
- Swiftee asks Soooo, how’s that smokin’ ban goin’ for ya? The answer seems to be that for bars where smoking is banned, not so good. I’ve seen the same thing. The American, just across the border in St. Paul, is hopping. At the Sporty, here in Minneapolis, sales were off thirty or forty percent when the ban hit, and seem to be about the same still. The only good thing is that since the ban went into effect, I’ve had no problem walking in, even during one of the big specials like three-for-one, and getting a seat at the bar. [mitch]