Holy cow, is tomorrow Friday already?
Indeed it is.
Which means that we’re going to have our First Mindless Diversions Friday Night Google Groups Chat Thingamabob! It’ll start around 7PM Mountain Time (Let’s say *AT* 7) and we’ll start by discussing Sandman but depending on the mood of everybody we could easily end up talking about other stuff. I don’t know about you, but I plan on drinking at least one glass of wine during the chat. My suggestion for you would be to have one yourself, but you may live in a different timezone entirely and just be starting your day in which case I should point out that it’s already the future where you are so, technically, it’s okay to have a glass of wine and slow down until we catch up.
Speaking of Saturday, I imagine that I’ll be running errands and picking up a toy or two for one of the boychildren in the extended tribe given that Sunday will involve his birthday party! Which will be all the sweeter because it’ll be the first day of Daylight Standard Time (The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year).
So… what’s on your docket?
Last weekend before the big deer season starts. Heading out to the farm to check on the wheat we planted and put out some corn. Going to double-check the deer stand and make sure it’s in good shape. Have to put up some new fencing in the back of the property to keep the neighbor’s cows out. If they get through this year I’ll be putting beef in the freezer instead of venison.
Going to try and catch a movie with the wife. We’re way behind schedule for the fall.
Last weekend before the big deer season starts.
When is the little deer season?
Ah – I should clarify ( I was trying to be generic for the non-hunters).
‘Little’ deer season would be bow season which is actually longer in time but smaller in participation.
‘Big’ deer season is modern gun season which is much shorter in time but much larger in participation. That’s the one we really look forward to because it’s your best chance to get a deer. It falls during the rut and with modern guns you extend your range by 200 yards or more.
Any idea if that’s a regionalism? I live in Michigan and I’ve never heard those phrases. (Doesn’t mean they’re not used here, I know hunters, and opening day usually brings a few student absences, but somehow even my blue collar friends aren’t hunters.)
“Little” and “big” hunting seasons are something I’m familiar with from hunters who were around when I grew up in Eastern Canada. So, probably not a regionalism. (Though you never know. There are a lot of phrases that only my Kentuckian Appalachian mother-in-law knows, among my acquaintances here in the States, that are as common as geese up where I’m from. Regions can be tied together linguistically in weird ways.)
Oh those are just the terms I use when I am talking to people who I am unsure know much about hunting. Kind of like saying, “He had a big time last night.”
Around here the most common phrases are ‘bow season’ , ‘muzzeloader’ and ‘modern gun season’. This will be ‘modern gun’.
I usually wait for “predator drone season”. (I meant that to be silly, but on reflection, it’s not a bad metaphor for buying meat at the grocery store instead of hunting your own.)
Single parenting and the end of soccer transportation. One night will be Guys Steak & Movie Night. Not sure yet what the movie will be. Maybe Kung Fu Hustle; maybe Army of Darkness.
the end of soccer transportation
This line makes me laugh. I find that James and my schedules revolve around who picks up what kid when and where from what activity. Fortunately after next weekend, we will be down to one outside of school scheduled activity for both the oldest and youngest and the middle daughter’s activity will not require to much extra driving around as it happens directly after school – at her school.
As for this weekend, youngest in Winnie the Pooh musical tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. Oldest swimming today and possibly tomorrow in district championships and the usual house cleaning and laundry duties.
And finishing my bookshelf, and maybe getting started on painting daughter #1’s room.
Enjoy it. Once they start driving themselves, you never see them.
Until they move back in after college because they can’t find a job.
No politics!
Reseeding the backyard. Fun, right? I did this about 4 years ago with a drought resistant grass – mostly crested wheat – and it got nailed with a bad fungus over the last two years. Killed almost all the yard’s grass. So … I retilled the soil, graded it out, and this weekend I’m gonna get the seed in. Oh, and build one more raised-bed for our garden.
Apart from that, it’ll be phootball!
I’m in Singapore for the weekend and I need to figure out what I’m doing – I thought someone else from the office would be here but it’s just me.
I probably have to work Saturday morning. After that I’ll probably visit the Botanical Gardens and maybe Chinatown to shop and then catch up on work. And Skype with the wife and toddler, of course.
Call up Murali for drinks!
Good idea, if you see this, Murali, first round’s on me!
Mowing the lawn (hopefully the last time for a while), laundry and house cleaning. No real plans other than that, but I am sure I will come up with something.
Will there be a highlight post of the google chat?
I did my final mowing last night. Drained all the gasoline and hosed off the undercarriage and put it to bed so it can (hopefully) hybernate until next April. It felt awesome.
Finally moving into my apartment Saturday. Buying a mattress ‘n bedsprings. My landlady is a Finnish shoeshine artiste who took a shine to me.
So I’m over there last night. They fed me dinner. Seems everyone in the building sorta makes food for everyone else, a delicious terrine from downstairs and some lamb and white bean soup, rice on the side. We go over to my apartment where her husband is putting in the bathroom tile and carpet. I compliment him on all the hard work, for trimming up tile for a bathroom is not a simple task. Tuula, not to be outdone in the hard work department, points at my shoes and says to her husband — “And look at how shiny his shoes are!”
Long cause trial in a month and I’m hopelessly behind on my other work. So I may get a little office time in. Household chores and NFL Sunday for fun. And Fallout: New Vegas isn’t going to play itself.
I don’t understand how to join a google group or group chat or whatever. How do I sign up to this?
Katherine: see those instructions I sent to you via email. Basically:
1) Joing Google+
2) Add League members to your Circles
3) Request invite to chat session
Hey Mike (or JB if you see this) – can I get these e-mail instructions as well please?
Assuming that the Current Crisis at work dies down, and the kids go to sleep (and stay the fish asleep), I hope to participate.
Glyph,
See above. Once you add us to your circles and we hit you back you can see all the other Leaguers and Jaybord can hit you with the invite.
OK, we’ll see if that works.
I’ve got a three day weekend that started this morning with sleeping in! Now I’m avoiding my to-do list which is a mile long. It looks like rain all weekend (what else is there for November in Oregon) so that rules out all the fun outdoor things. I’ve got dinner with a friend Sunday evening, in theory.
Trying to adjust to the fact that there’s no baseball. Also, scripting a working session to help our staff get up to speed with Git (while being the proverbial teacher who stays one chapter ahead of the students.)
Why move to Git? You’re using Subversion I’ll guess, why change? Because you enjoyed moving from CVS to Subversion so much you want to do it again?
I have supported both for years. Look, they’re really different tools. Some projects require a central repository, some are more amenable to a distributed model. When I’m dealing with developers over Windows, it’s usually SVN, that’s how they think. And I can throw TortoiseSVN at them, they like that tool.
But when it’s in Linux and everyone’s already used to a distributed open-source model, with all manner of branches, it’s always git.
It’s a brand-new company; we started with Git. Most of us have been Perforce users before, And, nothing against Perforce: it’s good stuff, and I have lots of friends who work there, but we’re going to have some open source components, and for that crowd you need something that’s itself open source. Git vs. Subversion is a no-brainer.