So... last night I worked and worked on the Keirsey files, and then I went to bed.
Well, not exactly. What happened was... I worked on the Keirsey files until I got really tired of it, then I spent a lot of time trying to figger out how to do it differently. Some way where it would be less work. Because it's getting to be too much like work.
Seems that there are several alternatives open to me, but they each require me learning a lot of stuff. So I picked one, and read about that one for an hour before I found out that well, y'gotta learn this stuff, but, y'know, y'gotta learn this other stuff too, preferable before you learn this stuff.
OK, I've only lost about two hours figgering this out. I don't wanna learn all this stuff... I just wanna put this database on the web and let people manipulate it however they want.
There are a coupla other ways to do this... but it's about the same way. Y'gotta know lotsa stuff first.
And is all this stuff located at the same place? No way... that's not the WebWay. So I've got 15 windows open, and my brain shuts down.
Off to bed. A good night's sleep will make it all come clear. I put on my C-PAP and Karen says that she's sleeping with a spaceman. I go to sleep... for about an hour.
There are two things that make a C-PAP not work. One is coughing, the other is a stopped-up nose. I have the latter when I wake up. I take off the C-PAP and try to go to sleep, but I can't.
Back on the computer, then. It still doesn't gel, so I spend my time wandering the web, accomplishing nothing. I finally get to sleep around 04:30 or so... get up at 08:00.
I reviewed the stuff, but still lack the clarity of knowledge necessary to accomplish the task. I give up on it about noon, and go in and wake Tyler up.
Karen had put some ribs in the slow cooker, and I needed to go to the store and get some sauerkraut and other supplies. And it's a beautiful day, around 70F, no wind, nice little fluffy clouds in the sky.
I should go fishing, but no, there is work to be done. Tyler and I start on the outside work, getting the planter ready for Karen. We did the big planter by the door yesterday, so today we did the other one. Well, Tyler did most of the work... it involved a shovel and stuff like that.
We've got two 8X8 foot planters around two large maple trees just off of the front deck... we've had them for about ten years, and never got really serious about planting anything in them before... well, Karen is serious now, finally. So now they will be planted with stuff other than grass... grass will grow in the planters, but not in the yard, isn't that odd...
We also did some additional filling in of the ditch left by the french drain, and I got all of the lower limbs trimmed from the maple trees and got some other yard-cleaning done.
Karen got home about 17:00 and we went downtown for the free jazz concert. Pretty good music, especially for free... and it was a beautiful evening. Tyler went with us and he seemed to enjoy himself.
After they finished the second set, I was ready to eat some ribs, so I talked Karen and Tyler into leaving before they started the third set.
Unfortunately ( or maybe fortunately...)picked a way to drive home that went pretty close to where Lacee was having her T-ball game, so we had to stop there. We got to watch her field an inning and bat once before we could go home...
Shortly after I finished the Keirsey files and uploaded them and sent a message to the three lists that I'm on that are interested in them... the liquidweb server went down. And it's still down, dammit.
On the home front, Karen and Kim like the beard... but Lacee doesn't.
Quandary.
So I'll grow it back. Karen has the deciding vote, of course, but I can over-rule her on this one, since it's my face.
I'm getting tired of shaving daily, anyway.
More tomorrow...
The face... I'm still pretty undecided. I took a poll at work, and the ladies that have known me a while wanted the beard back, and the younger ones and the ones who hadn't known me for so long like me bare-faced... they say I look younger. Well, why would I want to look younger? I'm as old as I am... I always have been.