the world from my point of view
Friends At friends for dinner last night. Maggie with a friend skiing at Cyprus for today. Penn Yan The Penn Yan is out of the garage… not quite done but done enough that I can move on to the next project. Its now in the boat house. Defender The Defender is in need of a…
Traditional Christmas morning routine then of to the mountains for sledding with friends. Friends over for turkey dinner later in the day. The microwave has been acting up… working then not. I noticed it was hot for no good reason. So out it came.
We had friends over for a social. The excuse for this was some communal Christmas baking. but it was a social thing. Maggie and Molly out for the evening with their friends. Nana, Valerie, Mavis and I holding down the fort.
Valerie and Molly headed off to Vancouver to get Maggie at the ferry terminal – and to do some Christmas shopping. Nana, Mavis and I are ‘holding down the fort’.
The new TV arrived. It is an entry level OLED with webOS. It is also a bit bigger than the old one. This new TV has loads more going on and it will take some time to explore its features/content. The remote is also something to get used to. I put the old TV in…
Christmas Max and Molly made a ginger bread house. I think it came out nice. Made me wonder if they could build a real house/home together- hmmm. Home One of the water heater tanks went. Was able to get someone out to replace both tanks the next day. This turned out to be an expensive…
Nana arrived the other day. I picked her up at the airport. I ran an errand in the early morning and that left me some time around mid-day. So hunkered down in a mall and did some coding. Nana arrived on time and we were home in short order. Nana is driving the Jag so…
Coding Worked on the custom color dialog. I needed to create this in order to allow for the custom global color palette, I created a few days ago, to be incorporated. It also gave me the chance to add a slightly fancy circular Hue/Saturation picker. Refamiliarized myself with Cartesian and Polar positioning along the way…
Girls Valerie had a ‘Girls night out’ last night and did the same (in Vancouver) today. Happy to see her get away from work for a bit of a good time. Valerie booked a trip for the March break. We are to be heading to the Bahamas. Unfortunately; Maggie will not be on this one…