March 18 2008

Dan wrote:

March 18 2008

There aren't many limits on how hard you can party as a two year old.

I am not sure what Davey had in mind here.

Natalyn and Dallin had fun together.

The last few days have been pretty much straight work.  I have mixed feelings of elation and terror as I look at what I am getting done.  On the one hand I am learning a lot on the other I am seeing how much there is to learn and do.  I am getting a lot more confident doing database interfaces and working with PHP in general.  I was also able to get a local server setup so I can develop and test my things without needing to go online.  I expect that will be handy once we leave for Joshua Tree.  We may well have internet there but it will be nice to not need to depend on it.

The kids have discovered there is a bigger park a little over twice as far away as the one to which I had been running with them.  I am not able to maintain a run all the way there yet but I had nice run/walks with each of the kids there.  My pace seems to match Dallin on his bike pretty well for that distance I am also pretty close to Natalyn on her bike if I am pushing David.  I told the kids that we won’t be going that far every day from now on though because the distance really is above my current fitness level and the last thing I want to do is injure myself.  I think my knees are already doing better with the little bit of exercise and stretching that I have been able to do.  My sleep was doing really well until Sunday night.  For some reason I couldn’t get to sleep at all.  At midnight I justified that it wasn’t Sunday any more and worked for a couple of hours trying to get the PHP/mysql/apache installations done.  Last night I had a really neck ache so I took an excederinePM and that took care of the sleep as well as the pain.

Once again Davey's mind finds itself in a place to far away for us to track its path or final destination.

I have really enjoyed having the Mission Bay Park right next door for runs.

I am hoping to be able to start actual game work next week.  A lot of what I am doing now will lay a good foundation for the work and also a foundation for any contract work that may come up.  I have been able to brush away a bunch of the cob webs related to web development.  I have also been able to learn some new cool things.