46 posts from 2006

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I just wrote an "auto complete" script in Lansa utilizing the Yahoo UI which passes back data from the DB2 database as a JSON string!

I told you I would go on to be the Lansa programming ninja I've always aspired to be!

Originally published at ace's blog. You can comment here or there.

Let me just say start out and say that I have not abandoned the blogging that I grew to like a lot during my significant downtime while I worked at Terminix.   I have just been really busy; between work and WoW and house searching and then more work...plus I had a lot of work to do...at work.   Lots of work...at work.

After a long search, I have found a place to rent in Winter Park!   It's about 7 miles from work so my commute time should only be about 20 minutes either way.   The house we are renting is decent.   It is 100% tile...no carpet.   That was our largest limiting factor in looking for a place to rent.   We were told that Aaron would *probably* be developing asthma in the next year due to his current allergies.   It was recommended that we avoid carpet if possible so we did.   I signed the lease today.   We move in on December 20th.   I will be flying to Memphis, for the last time, on December 16th, flying back with Aaron on the 18th and Meri is going to drive down on the 18th and 19th.

In "I STILL have a house to sell" news, couple number 27 came by to look at our lovely home since we put it on the market many moons ago.   They are very interested and decided that it was the house for them.   They have a house to sell and it is currently on the market but is not showing well because "they have too much stuff and it makes the house look small".   They are currently in the process of trying to get approved for financing for both their mortgage and for the mortgage for our house!   That sounds like a lot of work to me.   We were told that they stopped looking at houses after they saw ours.   If they do not get approved and still want our house, we are going to offer them a lease with an option to buy.   That would be awesome to not have to pay a mortgage AND rent!

So anyway, I should probably get back to work.   Work is fun, minus being insanely busy all the damn time.   I'm doing a lot of AJAX integration (but not with XML, we use JSON because it's faster) with LANSA.   If you have no clue what that all meant, here's a simpler way of saying it: I'm doing wicked cool stuff on the web!   My JavaScript skills have increase dramatically in the past 3 months!   I am having a lot of fun doing the actual coding part of my job.   Now the operations side I could do without but you have to take the good with the bad.

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We have made most of the arrangements and I am very happy to finally be able to say that Meri and Aaron will finally be moving to Orlando on December 18th!  Meri is going to drive her truck to Orlando and I will be flying down with Aaron...alone.  Although Meri has done this many times, this will be my first time flying with him alone and I'm kind of nervous about it.  He's a great kid and all but I know he can get grumpy when he has to stay in one place for a short period of time, thus causing me to get grumpy.  Now all I have to do is fine a house for us! :)

This weekend, we are headed to St Louis to watch the 49ers kick the crap out of the lowly Rams.  It should be fun!  Meri, Aaron and I are meeting my father-in-law up there.  He's like a super-fan so I'm kind of hoping, for the sake of the trip and for everyone's happiness.  I'm resigned to the fact that the 49ers suck (but are doing very well lately!) but I don't think he is happy to admit that the Rams good days are far behind them!  It should be fun either way.  I'm looking forward to it.

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Today is our third anniversary.  It doesn't seem like we've been married that long.  Aaron still seems new to me too.  Maybe it's being away from them for so long that makes me feel like it's all still so fresh.  I am going home Saturday morning (Nov. 11th) and I'll be with my family until November 29th!  That's 18 days of family time!  I know it's not much but it's what drives me now.

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WoW is awesome!  I'm not addicted as some people I know are but I enjoy playing.  I won't be playing much once my family is back with me but until then, I'll be playing me some Wow!

I talked my boss into letting me work from Memphis two weeks at a time, instead of our originally negotiated one week.  Two weeks with the family at a time?!  Who would have ever thought I wouldn't be spending all of my time with them?!  This has been one of the more difficult times in our lives, especially now that Aaron is fairly aware of what is going on.

Meri took Aaron trick-or-treating tonight and she said that he loved it.  Aaron got to knock on every door and say "Happy Hawoween" (he has issues with his L's).  The when the people would put candy in his pumpkin, he would fish it out, tell them what it was, and then say "Thank you for [insert candy name here]".  I really wish I could have been there with them!  He asked Meri if tomorrow was Happy Halloween again and then asked if there was going to be any more trick-or-treating again tomorrow.  This is the first year that he's been into it like this.  Next year will be fun too!  I'll just look forward to that.

In other Wood family news, a woman came to look at our house for the second time in 3 days!  I'm going to take that as a sign that she liked it a lot the first time.  Our realtor seems to be stepping up lately and really getting the ball rolling.  As much as we disliked her style initially, she does seem to have a fire under her ass now, for which we are thankful.

Now, back to WoW!  I'm Narkhand on the Ner'zhul server in case anybody is interested...

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I just wrote an "auto complete" script in Lansa utilizing the Yahoo UI which passes back data from the DB2 database as a JSON string!

I told you I would go on to be the Lansa programming ninja I've always aspired to be!

Originally published at ace's blog. You can comment here or there.

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Now, the funniest clip of any movie, ever... http://youtube.com/watch?v=oXjO7BnNIQ0

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In all of my years of life (over a 1/4 century!) and all my years of flying on planes (as opposed to flying on anything else), I have never missed a flight....EVER!

Well, that couldn't last my whole life could it? The most important flight in my long life and I missed it. The woman at the gate, in an almost too chipper voice, told me "you just missed it by a minute...maybe two!" Now was that supposed to make me feel better? Cuz if it was, I think that totally flew over my head. It put me in a worse mood.

So here's how it was supposed to work out: I wake up, parked, go to my gate, sit on a plane and then two hours later, I was back in Memphis and hugging my family again. Here's how it actually worked out: I woke up, I DROVE for two hours (to an airport that is 45 minutes away), parked at a much more expensive lot ($9 per day versus $30 for the entire time I was away), I sit on a shuttle for 15 minutes, I finally walk my ass into the airport and RUN around, looking at all the boards for my gate number since it wasn't on my ticket...guess what?! No gates listed for my flight...super. So now I have to educatedly guess which security check point I'm supposed to go through and after that, guess which tram I'm supposed to take. So I eventually get in the correct area (gate) and am informed that my plane JUST left, like milliseconds ago. Now I am booked on a different plane. Now keep in mind that I was supposed to be on a direct flight from Orlando to Memphis. Now my new flight is SOOO much better cuz I get to go to Minneapolis and then to Memphis. Somehow, my 2 hour flight turned into 5 1/2 hours AND a 90 minute layover.

But after all that, I'm home and Aaron's loving it. He keeps hurting me though...yesterday, when we were playing, I said "Aaron, I love you" and he replied "No go bye-bye daddy". I told him that I wasn't going anywhere as I walked away shedding tears. My son must be scared that I'm going to leave him for a month at a time everytime I tell him I love him. It makes me want to cry even thinking about it again. :(

Originally published at ace's blog. You can comment here or there.

So if you read my post about joining a gym, you may (or may not, in which case, screw you!) have been wondering about my level of soreness!

Well, the level of pain in my abdominal region in almost unbearable.  I should be pat on the back by everyone that sees me for having to deal with all this pain in one area of my body.  Holy shit it hurts.  Why is it that I can pedal my ass off for two 45 minute classes and not be even the tinsiest bit sore in either of my legs but 10 minutes of ab exercies makes me want to just inject my muscles with morphine?!

But enough about that...actually I'm done.  I have nothing else to bitch about at the moment.  Other than my abs hurting, but I think I've said that already.

Originally published at ace's blog. You can comment here or there.

So if you read my post about joining a gym, you may (or may not, in which case, screw you!) have been wondering about my level of soreness!

Well, the level of pain in my abdominal region in almost unbearable.  I should be pat on the back by everyone that sees me for having to deal with all this pain in one area of my body.  Holy shit it hurts.  Why is it that I can pedal my ass off for two 45 minute classes and not be even the tinsiest bit soreness in either of my legs but 10 minutes of ab exercies makes me want to just inject my muscles with morphine?!

But enough about that...actually I'm done.  I have nothing else to bitch about at the moment.  Other than my abs hurting, but I think I've said that already.