Went to the doctor

Was prescribed Prilosec for my tummy troubles. (Actually a generic alternative, but because I lack Rx coverage, the druggist offered to sell me the name-brand stuff for half the price. Odd to me, but OK, since the doc had mentioned that the two were the same.) I am to take it for a month while not drinking anything that is brown, to use a Larry Wallism. This will let my abused stomach lining toughen up a bit. I will then cease the dosing and go back on the brown stuff, but mindfully.

I think I broadcast a distressed expression at this news, for he then explicitly allowed me one "regular-sized" coffee every day, and an occasional beer. "Thank god," sez I. I also must take a break from shoveling down the vindaloo, though. Sad for me.

Had a full physical, and while I have to come back for blood and eye testing, all else is well. Got a tetanus shot. Whee.

lolhack

Today's output for screen -DR was not the usual "(New screen)" but "Be careful! New screen tonight."

I cannot grumble about "geek humor" if, in fact, I get the joke. And the joke was presented to me while launching an obscure command-line Unix shell utility.

(Also screen -list prepends its output with "Your inventory:" OK guys.)

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...f.
../..
I HAS A SWORD

This weekend, not so exciting

I'm going to be mostly hermity this weekend. Between the web client and preparing the Ignite presentation (which I'm now informed has a strict 5-minute time limit), I'm going to be partying like it's 2006.

I have caught myself implying to people that I'll actually have a usable client done this weekend, which is actually quite silly of me. My more realistic goal is to get a truly feature-complete Testbench beta done, shared and announced. It will be a downloadable application that you'll run locally, even though it's all browser-based.

Testbench and the full client will end up sharing a great deal of JavaScript code, so I'm taking extra care to write clean and portable functions here; I'm really working on both targets at once.

The client itself is a monstrous huge project. The key backend component is fairly simple, and is what I have in mind when I talk about how quickly I'll be able to put it together. It's writing a decent web application around it, one usable by the general public, that worries me. Well, we've already set many precedents and components down with the design of the volity.net website itself, and I have a feeling that the client will, in the end, become an inseparable part of the site, dissolved all throughout it.

No, I am not willing to change my statement that it will be in beta by the end of this year. If anything's changed, it's that I'm now completely confident that it can actually happen.

But now it is 9:30 and I've run out of power to keep slogging at this thing. Maybe I catch up on "Lost" so I can have conversations with certain friends of mine once more.

I suppose I'm feeling OK for having skipped my evening coffee, as I will continue to do for the next four weeks. Sigh.