Half-productive weekend
July 10, 2006I had some contract work to get finished up this weekend but damned if I couldn’t get my brain to cooperate on saturday. I tried to work for a while, couldn’t get a rhythm going, so I jumped online for some poker, and that wasn’t really interesting either. I went back and tried to work again..getting nowhere. So I finally gave up and grabbed a novel and read till 3am.
Sunday morning, I got up and got to work first thing in the morning, no problems getting into the zone to do some work, took a break for lunch and worked till about 11pm, completing the project. This morning I got up, made a few client requested tweaks and sent in my invoice. Contract fulfilled…project done…wooohoo!!!!
So saturday was a complete bust, but sunday more than made up for it. Overall I guess I can’t complain.
Friday night I went out riding with a buddy, hitting some of my favorite bars out on the delta. That was a good time, we made it to the Riverboat for a couple of pints of Newcastle then out through stockton and over to Union Point for a couple of coors then headed home. The weather was perfect for riding, and we even got to see some fireworks going off in Brentwood on our way home.
Tonight I have to get back to some of my other work that I have sitting out there waiting for me and, and I also owe some people an email about some coding they need some help with as part of a sweat-equity deal. That could turn out to be a lot of fun. I understand from the guy that put us in touch with each other that they are looking to be using Ruby/Rails for this project.
Simply Alerts is slowly coming back to the front of my task list as well. I have the perl backend done, and am just trying to workout the details of the administrative/customer UI. Once this is all done i’m going to be setting up a server and launching this product for real. Andrew has expressed some interest in learning Ruby/Rails and has bought the book, installed linux, and started learning, so there’s a good chance he’ll be helping me with some development, as well as learning the ropes of how the whole system works so that someone can watch it for me when I go on vacation.
Well that’s about all i’ve got to say at the moment..time to get back to work…
