Just hit me how great it would be if the WordPress theme world lived on something like github. Fork! Fork! Fork! Would be great.
At a coffee shop and the woman at the table next to me is selling a Yellow Pages listing to a guy. Tough sell. Lot of work for not much revenue.
Wrestled Capistrano down today. Now have multi-stage Capistrano deployment working for this PHP application. Nice.
Today I feel like I turned the corner on two tools: git and capistrano. +1 for me.
Really digging the new album from The Killers. - Day & Age.
To all Minnesotans: it’s not that cold out. You live in Minnesota. Move on. 🥶
MacBook Battery Toast
I was just updating our oldest Mac, my original MacBook (black) that is now pretty much Tammy’s laptop. I was upgrading it to 10.5.6 and realized two things.
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It was way behind in updates. I’m usually so good with this, but 6 updates to apply? Yikes!
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The battery is so wasted that it couldn’t even make it through the update process. Ouch! I fired up CoconutBattery to see how bad it was and promptly ordered a new battery.
184 load cycles and 31 months isn’t horrible though.
New Battery
Took a quick trip to the Apple Store and got a new battery. The old black MacBook is now like new! Actually, better than new looking at the numbers.
I know they are man’s best friend and all, but sometimes there is just no way around it, dogs suck. Lately this has been applying to Chase more than Izzy. For the last few months he’s been really into eating, well, anything. Mazie’s toys. Books. Stuff we cannot identify after he’s mauled it. The newest one that just amazes us is the dimmer light switch knobs. That’s right. He pulls the knob off the wall and eats it.
Yesterday, after being out of the house for a very short lunch, I was welcomed with this scene at the front door.
Ugh! It’s every bit as bad as it looks. What did he eat? Well, it’s the back of one of Mazie’s cool Jennifer Delong Modern Ultrasuede Chairs.
He had grabbed the seat back cushion and went to town. The most amazing thing about it is that the zipper was opened, and not damaged. It’s like he gently opened it up and removed the foam to have a big foam party with. Unfortunately he did chew a hole in one of the corners so we are hoping the seat back can be replaced.
I really hope he grows out of this chewing festival soon. We’ve got dozens of toys around for him to eat, but those generally are spared.
Date Night! Great dinner at Rinata in Uptown and now movie, Four Christmases!
Mazie had Belgian waffles for the first time this morning. She’s a fan! The “big” waffles hold more syrup, FTW!