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April 2, 2007
A weekend of code and cake

I made a birthday cake for my daughter, and her son decorated it.
Fooling around: Some of the silliest April Fool tricks at The Guardian (U.K.).
Blown away: Letters at 3AM: Red State Blues in the Austin (Texas) Chronicle:
...These people are watching their towns die. Watching their way of life die. They are living the end of their dream, and they didn't believe that could happen. Like their ancestors, they've worked hard and hard and hard. They've played by the rules, believed the right things, worshipped the proper God, lived as they deeply felt life should be lived, and they're losing everything that matters to them. And there's nothing they can do about it except to keep working hard, because that's all they know. ...
I've finished revamping SoxBlog, projo's very first blog, just in time for today's season opener. Sliding the new code in under it worked well. Some other ideas didn't work at all, but I can file them under "Player to be named later."
There is a cold mental architecture involved in juggling code, a metallic cathedral of the mind that's far from the near-channeling of writing. A tiny error and everything goes bad. Enough of this and I want to paint, let shape and color be what they will and call it okay.
Instead I made a cake. It had been so long since the last cake that I forgot to wait for the frosting to cool before spreading it -- it poured and hardened, and the strawberries between the layers oozed out.
Delicious in its imperfect homemade squat goodness, it's all gone.
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