Wow. That just takes my breath away.
This is Lucy. She's a ladybug pillow pet. She and Katie drove down for the weekend. Lucy didn't do much of the driving.
It's been ages since we got a good, serious chunk of time with our girl, Katiebug. She and Lucy came down to spend the weekend with us.
She went to the munch with us, and we taught her how to play Minecraft. She made us AMAZING peanut butter pancakes on Sunday.
Sunday afternoon we got extra special time with her, which I'm not going to get into enormous detail about, because I'm not the spank-and-tell type. (Go ask her if you want.)
I'm just grateful Missy and I had the chance to spend good quality time with Katie. We love her lots.
Last Saturday was the DC Littles Munch. Our little boy Richard was there, which made me very happy. He loves all sorts of punny, goofball humor. (Which I do, too.) He showed me this, which made me laugh for several minutes.
God I miss him. I love when he makes me laugh.
When she found something really startling or funny or wonderful, my grandmother P. used to say, "Oh my kidneys!"
Bethie, whom I love.
My friend Bethie got just such a surprise this week. She's been in kidney failure for a while, and been on the lookout for a replacement transplant kidney. She found one.
I'm so grateful she has. Bethie is one of the very best people I know. She's giving, loving, kind, witty, funny, and generous with her very big heart.
She needs our help though. The surgery is going to cost around $65,000. I'd be even more grateful if you could help her out.
So in my day job I work with a java framework callled Grails. Grails sits on top of a database backend, which can be anything. The principal language in Grails is called Groovy. (Like there's Ruby on Rails, there's Groovy in Grails.) Every Grails version of a technology seems to have a name that starts with G.
Object relationship modeling, or ORM, is no exception. Grails has a system that persists objects, Hibernate-style into a database, called GORM.
Mostly GORM Is amazing. Every once in a while though I have to figure out something REALLY complicated with it that makes my brain hurt. I had this insanely hard SQL query I needed to refactor, that conditionally joined three different tables, used aliases, and conditional cases. It was a MONSTER.
I banged my head against it for three days. Eventually, after a whole lot of googling, and talking things out with a colleague from previous jobs, I got it figured out.
My job is often this sort of bipolar experience of either "I got this" or "I have no idea what the @#!% I'm doing."
I'm really grateful for the "got this" days when they happen.
