We keep running into familiar faces at the grocers. Last night, hunting for fastnacht or dried beans or some such thing we saw Don from work; he was hauling bread and milk and was on his way after a brief introduction. Still, it makes me feel like we belong here... a sense of place, I suppose. Such continuity in this blog.
Today was not much of a day. That's odd because I got a lot done and tested a bunch of scenarios on our global commerce platform, but my overriding 'deliverable' programming is spitting out an error message: "No deliverable produced. Process Failure." Today was also my first annual earnings report with Knoll, not that there was much for me to do other than log onto Yahoo!Finance like any other schmo and read our 10-K. Best year since KNL went public... all in a day's work.
At home I am furiously trying to remember how to use Rhinoceros to model things three-dimensionally. I've been a little gunshy to use Rhino since some previous projects were viewed as "not too cool" or "a scoche dorky." (In my defense, I wanted to know what the wedding cake and tent would look like. Also, I had free time this summer.) I'm modeling stairs from the deck to our lawn and a shelving system that I dreamed up for the loft. I'm confident in the former but thinking I ought to try some kind of FEA analysis on the latter, which is ironic because I don't care that much if some books crash four feet to the floor but I'm pretty emphatic that nobody had better plummet eight feet to the ground in a cascade of nails and treated wood.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008