technonaturalist

We hit up the Perth Zoo today, and I finally got around to getting the zoo membership passes. So now we can visit regularly without it costing an arm and a leg! We inadvertantly stayed there the whole day too. Maybe it was the cart. I’ve been avoiding going on the “adult and kids’ prices” days because it’s always packed out, on the other days it’s fine and we can always get a cart. Then the kids can hitch rides whenever they’re feeling a bit tired and we don’t end up walking over half the zoo before they’re complaining of being tired.

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It’s the end of an era, ending a chapter of my life, or something equally dramatic.

After many years of operation, I finally pulled the plug on #bitz_n_peeces. I wasn’t sure if I’d feel emo about it, or if it would be just another thing. I’m feeling a little from column A, a little from column B. I’m a little sad that it’s come to an end, but ending it was not a bad thing.

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Earlier this morning, Tali and I headed out to Lumen Christi for the TrackWest Open Day. We did a few tracks instructed by a trainer. First time tracking the poor pup was confused as he had me plus the trainer handling, and new equipment, long lead and harness, but he found 6yo sitting behind a chair in the middle of the wide open oval with no drama after a hesitant start.

By default, when you set up a child menu, it appears directly under and slightly indented from the parent item. Occasionally, there is a need (such as with the kiosk I’m currently working on for the Christmas Island Tourism Association) where you need an active-trail but the menus need to be in different regions.

Rather trying to do everything with blocks in regions I found it easier to dump code in templates.

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Due to JJ taking an impromptu nap at an inopportune time and not waking up in between me leaving to take the dogs for a long walk and getting back from taking the dogs for a long walk, we got Chinese from the Golden Castle Chinese Restaurant down the road last night.

It would have taken just as long to cook in the end but anyway. The food is good. One of the dishes JJ got was prawns for himself and 6yo (mostly, as I’m allergic and 4yo doesn’t like them, and Cub gets to have one).

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I recently hit three decades. I spent most of the actual day finishing up the coding for the site that’s going on the kiosk Sprat and I are doing for the Christmas Island Tourism Association and cleaning for the party on the following day.

4yo requested the whiteboard so I took it down for her, and little arty girl knocked herself out drawing on it. 6yo came in to me at one point asking how to write an F. I explained it as like an E but without the bottom line (and previously I’ve described the E as a backward 3 as that’s how he was writing it, just straighter). Later he very excitedly came out and asked me to come look at something he’d done for me.

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Walking distance down the road from my place is Pioneer Park.

It’s marked “A” on the map. JJ and the kids went there to pick figs. I decided to take the dogs (and the toddler, who had to come with me as JJ was taking his car) for a bush walk.

Just so I don’t drive myself completely insane again.

It’s a fairly standard theming problem, you have your Drupal comment form rendering thusly:

Your site is set to not allow posting by anonymous users, rendering the “Your name” field superfluous and you think the subject line looks ugly, is unnecessary or you just don’t want users giving their comments subjects for whatever reason.

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Yesterday was an awesome day. To counter, I had a rather average day. Compared to yesterday it was bad, but seriously in the grand scheme of things, it could have been a lot worse.

Good day

I went to bed at a reasonable time the night before. Slept in a little bit, woke up chirpy, had breakfast and did the usual morning computery stuff. The kids woke up all in a good mood, breastfed the two small ones, gave everyone breakfast, and had plenty of time to hang out the laundry and get lunch ready for homeschool group. We got there not quite as late as we usually do and I was feeling glad that I had opted to go instead of staying home to do the laundry as I had originally planned as EVERYONE was there.

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Okay, maybe not quite on my doorstep. But it was a big fire. And it was possibly deliberately lit. First I noticed of it was the smoke. Not really that unusual, it’s Australia in summer. It happens.

Then JJ and the kids got home from City Farmers. The kids were terribly excited, rushing in yelling that we have to wake up the baby and get going. JJ came in and asked if I’d noticed the fire. I said I smelled the smoke but otherwise hadn’t been concerned about it, there’s occasionally fires up in the hills.