Let’s see, what have I been into. St. Valentine’s Day I got chocolates and a stuffed polar bear from Todd, and he got a card and dinner from me. The fish, asparagus, and rice I made turned out all right, but it definitely wasn’t the best collection of food I’ve ever made. The marinade on the fish wasn’t that exciting, the bacon on the asparagus didn’t fully cook even after extra time than the recipe called for, and the rice tasted way too much like Thanksgiving dressing due to the spices. I made a banana pudding, too, that was also just all right. It called for cream cheese and that wouldn’t mix up well, not to mention my new mixer (Ashlee broke my old one) is hyper even on the lowest setting, so I flung pudding everywhere until I figured out to put a lid over the bowl with just the beaters sticking in the side. Then the pudding wasn’t as good as my mother’s, so I got her recipe afterward, which is much simpler. Doesn’t even call for stupid pudding mix; it’s all from scratch. Mothers are awesome.
Discrete math yesterday got out early, it was great! That class is normally an hour and fifteen minutes long, but we got half an hour early because the professor had to go to some meeting. I spent my time getting Taco Bell for lunch, which I’ve been wanting for a while. Their grilled stuft (however they warp that word) burrito isn’t all that great, but I liked their taquitos. I’m sure you all care about Taco Bell’s new food items… Other than that, ain’t shit been happenin’ in my life. I visited my parents last weekend, I’ve been watching a lot of Soap and American Idol, and my throat’s a little scratchy.
Bentley’s girlfriend Erin is coming to visit this weekend and the two of them are supposed to have lunch with Todd and I. I’m excited because I’ve never met Erin, but she and Bentley have been together a while, so it’ll be nice to finally meet her. I’ve been trying to guess whether she’ll be quiet and shy or as zany as Bentley. Look at that, I used the word ‘zany’. Who ever uses that? It fits Bentley, though; he’s a very funny guy.
I’ve progressed into database normalization at work. Dr. Jaromczyk wanted to have some working function of the interface to show to someone else by today and I had to explain to him that nothing related to the database is working, other than user logins, because I haven’t cleaned up the database yet. The previous author of this application started with a decent DB layout but then the specs for the program kept being changed on him, so the DB had to morph with it, and not always in pretty ways. Thus there are some of the 32 tables that aren’t necessary, and others whose names aren’t ideal, and some of the fields should be renamed, and some of the tables should be split up or merged… So I’ve been trying to get a feel for its current setup so that I can know what changes to make.
When I get a chance, I’d like to do a clean sweep of 3till7.net. I’ve had the domain for a few years now and, over time, clutter starts to build up; it’s time for a spring cleaning. Here’s my plan:
- Back up everything, particularly my WordPress database tables;
- Wipe it;
- Put up a placeholder index with a note so visitors don’t get freaked out;
- See which databases are used for the various projects here, delete unnecessary tables, and possibly switch to using one database instead of several;
- Do a fresh install of WordPress;
- Set up pages that I want to keep, leaving off those I don’t. For images used in pages, no more manual scp-ing them to wp-images—I’ll use the WordPress upload;
- Get other projects set up in sub-domains, such as Ruby Lovers, and have redirects in .htaccess from their old locations in directories of 3till7.