Free Food (for Cowboys)

Saw Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story tonight at the SXSW world premiere. It is an authentically funny mock documentary starring Rob Corddry about the return of a champion paintballer after 10 years in exile. If you get a chance I definitely recommend seeing it, especially if you enjoy Rob’s work on the Daily Show.

The actual movie poster is much better

Downtown Austin

Kristy and I spent the whole weekend out and about, every night was very distinct, and I’m after it all I’m feeling a little exhausted. No progress on evolution or f-spot. It’s been a long time since I’ve taken an entire weekend completely off work and it feels good. I wish it was easier to find the balance between relaxation and productivity.

More f-spot progress. Basic Gallery export is now working using the gallery remote protocol. The code and UI are still a complete mess but the basic functionality is
there now. Getting more familiar with c# and the class libraries has been fun,
I’m starting to feel more comfortable working with them. I hope to start attacking some of the remaining problems with the database soon and come up with a structure that is one step closer to final.

Evolution work
has been slow, especially refactoring the Drag and Drop work. I’m still having
a lot of trouble finding a grove with anything evolution related. Everything I
accomplish feels like it takes several times the effort it should.

The rest of life remains a bit tumultuous. I’ve been having real trouble feeling content or relaxing, too many thoughts running through my head. Tonight was a little better, Kristy and I talked about things for a while. It feels good to know I am deeply loved.

Kristy on the couch

Back in Austin after the Birthday weekend. Happily I got a lot of f-spot work done while in College Station. There were some changes needed to catch up with
gtk-sharp-0.17 then I
spent a fair amount of time looking over the .Net http classes for the first time. After I got some very basic posting and cookies working I found and fixed a
tiny bug in mono’s System.Web.HttpUtility class.
This is all preparation for some fun new f-spot features. Finally to top it all off Edd Dumbill wrote an interesting entry about GNOME content creation and f-spot.

Spent some time doing Evolution treeview Drag&Drop, not very exciting, needs more work. Evolution 2.0 seems to be slowly marching closer even if it still seems impossibly far away.

Mom decorating Gran’s cake

I’m in College Station, home of Texas A&M
and site of my greatest defeat, visiting my grandmother for her 87th birthday.
She lives here with my parents and I always enjoy visiting but if it weren’t for them I’d love to leave this town behind for good. I drew this sketch over Christmas and to me if captures something key about her , a sadness in her that is
both accurate and surprising.

Gran at Christmas 2003

More hacking on f-spot, things are going well. I think it is almost to the point of being useful enough that people should give it a try and let me know where it comes up short for them. I planned to make a 0.1 release a couple of weeks ago but I got a bit behind and haven’t had the heart to finish it yet.

Spent some time working on f-spot. Things are slowly coming along, but it never goes quite as fast as I’d like it to. My mood isn’t helping things, I wish
I knew how to fix that.

I convinced Taletha to lend me her iBook to play with iPhoto. There is a lot to like and a lot that is confusing. In the process of playing with things I tried installing the export plug-in for gallery. I couldn’t get it to actually upload photos. I think there may be something wrong in with my gallery setup.

While playing with f-spot I looked back over the pictures from the friday before Valentine’s day. I am a lucky man

Frustrating times lately. I’ve been having trouble focusing on the task at hand. My mind keeps wandering and leading me into little loops of contemplation
that are difficult to break out of. In an attempt to clear my head I’ve been sketching in the down moments during builds. These quick doodles often come out looking somewhat representative of my mental state.