Still Here

I'm still here. It seems that every time I try to add to any of my blogs my browser crashes. I'm stuck on an old version of Mozilla so as the Web advances, I don't. I jsut reinstalled Mozilla and it seems to be performing better.

Stephanie has been encouraging me to watch the daily art lesson on OPB. There are only a couple of shows that focus on watercolor, but I at least can sit down and do some work in charcoal. Stephanie bought me a lovely little portable watercolor set and I've been practicing with the medium. I'm looking forward to trying it out as we drive to Denver next month. Our dear friend Kate is getting married. Apparently the wedding party (at least the men) will participate in a paint-ball game, and the wedding dinner is going to be at Mile-High stadium to watch the Rockies play. It should be fun.

I'm still fighting the temptation of starting a new piece in POV-Ray before an old one is finished. I played with a couple of lattice images that came out nicely. Stephanie may ask me to adapt them for her Chemistry course next year. Apparently the first lattice picture demonstrates what salt looks like.

And I'm back to coding for hours on end in Python. I'm cleaning up the design of www.stmaa.org and I want to use my Web Content Management System to handle the grunt work. This means getting WebMenu to do a bit more than it's done in the past, but the WebMenu code is muddled and not well documented. I'm starting a redux and I'm writing unit tests to help me develop the code. Basically I want to be able to use a formatted string template to generate menus, and I can't read my old code to figure out how to get the old stuff to do new things.

Ah well.