Something of a week

I would say something along the lines of TGIF, but it's such an over used acronym. So I'll just go with it's finally Friday.

I guess.

This week has certainly been a string a days. This week didn't even start off strong, quite the opposite, it could have set a really bad precedent and a horrible pace - but thankfully it did not. Something something disaster averted and fire put out. Well, not really a fire so much as ensuring that those embers did not get fanned into a full force blaze.

There were some accomplishments that were made this week: I was able to finish going through the Common Lisp Programming course from Vincent Dardel on Udemy. Vincent is also the main contributor to the Common Lisp Cookbook as well as a few other handful of Common Lisp sites. Overall, I was very happy and satisfied with the course. I didn't plow through it and wanted to take my time, which can be either good or bad depending on what's going on in life. While I was not uber proficient in Lisp (any of them…), I would not consider myself to be completely ignorant in the language, which does help. I have a familiarity with Emacs Lisp, Clojure and some Guile/Scheme, which makes some of the thought processes a little easier to grasp.

Now, it's basically learning what libraries are out there and trying to see what I would really like to do with my newfound set of skills.

This morning the kiddos all had appointments, always a good time. Especially when all the paperwork needs to be filled out.

Fortunately, the majority of them can at least attempt to fill out their own stuff, but they're young-ish and still have to ask questions. Which is cool - how else are they going to learn I suppose.

Even more fortunate, we were able to get out of the office with a bill of less than a grand. I'll take that as a win.

The youngest one had some decent issues, which should be correctable here in the very near future. The next youngest also had some changes that needed to be made. All in all, a successful morning on that matter.

On the dinner and food front, I believe that we are expecting company this evening. I don't mind company, especially when it's family. Always pleasant to see the eldest and his menagerie. It just means that I need to actually make dinner tonight. On this night's menu, bourbon chicken. I'll make some rice for the kids, while the wife and I can have….we'll either do broccoli or maybe a cauliflower mash - that could be tasty. The chicken thighs are currently marinading in the fridge as I write.

I have set up a new echo feed to blurt out this new blog, so we shall see how that goes. Still not sure what I'm gonna do with the notes section, maybe I'll turn it into an area that I keep mobile oriented cruft and entries to. The "out and about" kinda stuff. I don't know. I'd like to perhaps do some kind of pull from my raindrop.io account into another area as well, but I'll probably just keep it as it is currently.

Okay then, until the next time.