Nighty Time

So, apparently I didn't sleep enough to do me for the next 2000 years, as I had sort of estimated earlier. In fact, it appears to have only lasted about 12 hours. So what's 7 orders of magnitude between friends?

And I only stayed up this late because I was putting together a father's day gift for my dad. I don't think I've EVER sent him one before, so he's sure to be surprised (unless he reads this journal), but I'm sure he'll like it anyway. And as the last of my neurons melt down, its goodnight from me, and its goodnight from myself.

Fnoorg!

So, this time _sps_ was NOT exactly correct, and he needs to apologize. I asked him to write a little XML parser for me on the weekend, and he threw something together from the XML::Parser Perl library I had, saw that it produced nothing, and told me that my library or interface to it was broken. I've now download and tested half-a-dozen examples of uses of this exact same library, and they work as advertised.

So, now I'm gonna have to read the docs and find out why the library didn't work as expected, and will have to do the work myself. Harrumph!

But at least I get to feel smug about catching _sps_ in an overt error. I don't get to do that very often.

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So, of the three or four things I meant to get done today, I managed most of the preliminary windup for getting ready to do the first of them. Sigh. Sometime I think I need a big ol' taskmaster with a whip to make sure that I do the work that I promised someone I would do. Now I'm gonna have to work twice as hard tomorrow. If I don't play Civ.