I've starting coming up with ideas for things I'd like to do, which is nice, as I've been kind of focused on just forging ahead recently. Yesterday, I wondered if I should try making a Minecraft mod to add some kind of plot to the game, which would add a bit more excitement (for me). There seems to be at least one mod to make quests, so probably I ( Read more... )

I'm able to walk again! Yay! I'm still getting worn out kind of easily, but I'm able to make it like 4000 steps rather than 1000. So, progress is made. I've been a little more anxious recently about the prospect of moving, because immigration requires lots of paperwork and is stressful. Joel points out that I've already beaten that game on hard ( Read more... )

I think I may be starting to feel better. I _think_ that the magnesium was making me worse. It is supposed to help with glucose transport to muscles, but it may have done the opposite for me. I tried it once before without good results, so I think this is the last time. I was able to walk home from the store without Joel's help, so that is a good ( Read more... )

I told you last week, I think, that I would be working on preparations in case we have to move. Well, I'm not there yet. However, I've finished the most necessary parts of my to do list website upgrade and am nearly done with fixing the disasterously overcomplicated mess I made with my last upgrade to the part of my health website that tracks my ( Read more... )

Oh, databases, you are so exciting! I've been full of ideas, but since I'm not at home, I haven't been able to write them down on that piece of paper on my desk that is covered with my database notes. However, I realized that I can write things out here ( Read more... )

I have done a lot of work on my databases over the years. I really enjoy the work, and they store all kinds of useful information for me. Yesterday, I suddenly realized that there was a whole bunch of stuff that I have been doing wrong or that could be done much better. For example, I have dropdown lists of time zones, countries, and currencies at ( Read more... )

I use a lot of web forms to format text for various things, like my menus (on LiveJournal) and podcast RSS stuff. These forms just take the input, format it, and spit it back out. Nothing is saved anywhere. I copy the information from the screen and put it in a file (in part, so I don't have to deal with security issues). Because nothing is saved, ( Read more... )

After years of using a spreadsheet to organize my podcast, I finally realized that a database could make things much easier. A lot of my problems with the podcast are related to my illness. There is the flakiness factor: I forget to write down which songs I have already requested or for which songs I got permission. Then, there is the manual ( Read more... )

I have a bunch of webpages that in theory handle multiple users but in fact are just for me. That's fine. Someday, I'll release all this stuff on GitHub or something. Anyway, I was finding that I reused a lot of code over and over, so I've made libraries for a lot of that code. What I'm finding now is that as I try to standardize things like my ( Read more... )

We finished the first session of our "Kingmaker" game (from the Paizo Pathfinder Adventure Path). Our players had a good time, and I had a good time. The highlights were having our halfling join another halfling in a project to put a rat into a very unpleasant baroness's giant hat. Our halfling rolled very well on acrobatics and executed a lovely ( Read more... )