Wednesday: phone

At 7:29 this morning my phone rang. As normal, I didn't even realize that I had a phone call.

I don't carry my phone with me very often. Nope, that's incorrect. I don't often carry my phone with me and get reception. Let's look at a normal day...

midnight - 7:35: I'm in bed and my phone isn't. Or I'm awake and haven't put it in my pocket yet.

7:35-8:00: I'm getting ready for work. I'd probably get most calls during this time.

8:00-8:15: I'm driving to work. I'm not supposed to pick up the phone, but you will probably get a response when I get to work if you leave a voicemail

8:15-5:15: I'm at work were I don't get reception. But I do have my phone! I mainly use it as a clock.

5:15-5:45: I'm on my way home. Driving again.

5:45-5:50: Cuddle time with Flurry. I'll probably pick up.

5:50-midnight: I change out of my work clothes into pajama pants that don't have pockets. If my phone gets out of my work pants I put it on the dresser. Either way, I pretty much ignore it for the rest of the night.

(The exceptions are Tuesday nights because of Bible Study and Sunday nights because I'm waiting for Dad's call.)

Moral of the story: email me. Or call Ben.

Tuesday: white elephant

In continuing with the week of food tradition, we had a potluck at small group tonight. (Yesterday were bagels, today was yesterday's bagels for breakfast, a Christmas lunch for lunch, and then a potluck for dinner).

Then we had our white elephant party. It's always a lot of fun. This year we had more stealing than last year, but not so much that it went forever. It was great. And there was a lot of laughter as people discovered things in the box and tried it out. (Like putting a candle decoration in one's hair)

Monday: data types

Sorry, I'm a bit rambly today. And it's probably about something that most people don't care about.

Data types got me again.

I wish that when I say "does 2981000 = 2981000?" the answer would always be yes. But no, the answer is sometimes no. Because apparently one of them is really a string and one of them is a number.

As much as I complain about this, it's been one of my largest problems with the program I've written and so I'm always on the watch for it. Sadly though, it also tends to be a latent error as the question is often "does 298A231 = 298A231?", to which the answer is always yes.

Don't you wish that the computer was just smart enough to know what you want?

P.S. I don't want any comments about any crazy camel programs that could do this. :p

Sunday: this and that

Our church had it's Christmas play today. I thought it was really good. It had an interesting introduction by Luke, the author of the story. And it had some funny parts (like the innkeeper and his wife with their dialog back and forth).

All of our snow is gone because it was rainy today. I'm rather jealous of everyone that getting the snow storm right now.

I still haven't swiffered the floors. They really need it but I keep not doing it.

However, I still have ten fingers. I just counted. If we only had eight fingers (but still had ten toes), do you think our number system would be base ten or base eight? My guess is base eight.

I'm going to go make some spice tea.

Saturday: cookies

Today I made cookies for an event at church and put two M&Ms on each one. I wondered what the red-red, green-red, and green-green distribution was, so I counted.

Red-red: 19 (23%)
Green-red: 50 (60%)

Green-green: 15 (17%)

This tells me I need a larger sample size. Or possibly that there is a higher percentage of red M&Ms. But probably that I need to make more cookies.

Friday2: drinking

I was taking my shower while Ben was getting ready for bed last night, and I said I was hurrying to finish because I was so thirsty. So Ben got a cup of water and handed it to me. Wasn't that nice of him? On top of that, I got to do something that I've never done before: drinking in the shower.

Friday: YouTube

Ben sent me this link the other day. Since then I've watched a lot of their stuff. I like the collages of the singer(s) and instruments.

This series of videos is also pretty fun. It's between the instrumentalist/producer of the video above and another guy, but they played pop songs with random instruments, such as a recorder. Here's the first one to get you started.