Days of Summer >> 8/24/16

1. 8/24/16
1. Woke, had breakfast, ate dry (with no reading).
2. Off to work. Ross struggling with issues I didn’t even think he should be working on (fortunately he agreed to move to the Deploy phase of our project and stop nitpicking the interface).
3. Myself, not faring much better. Made what seemed to be good progress, getting C++ Visual Basic set up so that I could call the Windows Window Message API to drag-drop the workspace description file of much infamy into CodeWarrior. Contended with awful C++ string conversion to get Unicode, finally got the window handle for CodeWarrior and for Notepad. But the DragDrop API refused to work. No informative error, just didn’t do anything. Plugged away for an hour past lunchtime with no results.
4. Went home, wrathfully made lunch. Unwound over some random articles (and pastrami was tasty).
5. Went back. Still made no progress. Finally gave up and switched back to mouse driver strategy. Found a great automator scripting app that can handle both mouse driving and keyboard driving at the same time, wrote some notes to self, and went home.
6. Dad and I commiserated about our frustrating days. He argued I should go bust some heads about CW not having this stuff built in, demand from Freescale I talk to a competent rep (since the license Alpha owns is several thousand dollars).
7. Hung out with M a bit (“I” was a floppy noodle and refused to do anything). Biked outside with Secret in the driveway.
8. Then Dad came home with Neto’s and we ate. Super delicious. Dad and I picked apart the pop-psych idea that “one shouldn’t care what others think”. Seems like a) overly blanket, we shouldn’t care about the thoughts of people not closely connected to us, people trying to manipulate us, etc. for self defense and b) when taken to its logical extreme, very misleading, since we can’t help caring what others think…
9. Took a long bike ride down Northwest.
10. Danced with Mary to some Korean music videos.
11. Practiced the guitar.
12. Watched a Ribbonfarm video--Venkat walked through his map of the thought universe. Weird to see him talk--seemed so amateur compared to his writing, kind of fun!
13. Watched Firefly with Mom and Dad. Super good.
14. Wrote this log and hit the hay! Looking forward to hanging with Monica tomorrow, plus Park Day :)