January 05, 2012
Spelling Bee prep
Good morning! Been a pretty vanilla morning. I dropped the girls off at their schools. I made a quick stop at Cafe on the Oval for some eggs. Listened to EWTN on the drive down to Boxborough.
This Is Lockheed Martin’s New Amazing Fighter—But Do We Really Need It? Considering the F-22, no.
Went with my ol' friends from AMD to Il Forno for lunch. Never a bad meal and always affordable.
Left work around 5:30, listening to Security Now along the drive. Saw snowflakes near the end. Daniel has been studying spelling words all afternoon, with coaching from Abby and Michelle. After dinner I got into debugging why elinks, a text mode browser, would not work correctly on Mac OSX Lion. Finally got a build together that works properly. Secret sauce: configure it with the switch “--without-zlib” or it will fail to render any sites that use compression (like bilikfamily.com) because of a bug in the current Zlib compression library. Linux saw this bug too a while back.
Got the boys tucked in bed with their prayers. Happy to get a call from Claire that she was ready to be picked up by 9:15pm. When we got home I helped her with math, dilution problems and equations of circles. Also grateful tonight for my trusty WaterPik because earlier I had one of those meals that likes to wedge in teeth. Somedays I think back to my days with braces and how much got stuck back then… Good night all!
“Nathanael answered him,
‘Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.’ ” — John 1