Mystery photo … this one is significant:
No peaking for the answer below until you have have a guess.
Irena (Helen’s Mom) had ovarian cancer surgery last week. Not much fun. Boris slept on the pullout couch in her recovery room:
And Helen helped when and where she could:
Irena went home over the weekend where we hope she will make a speedy recovery.
I’m about to write a poem, titled “Pullup Timeline”
10 minutes to pick out a pullup bar
10 days to build up the courage to mount it
10 minutes to mount it
10 days to get to 10 pullups
There is a reason I don’t write much poetry. I’m stalled at 10 for now, waiting for my stomach muscles to catch up.
But my leg muscles finally caught up to my standing desk! Took about a month, but I am now a full time stander:
(if you zoom in on that photo, you can find a robot named Baxter eyeing a cute redhead named Chloe … Halloween outfit).
I moved the desk to be away from the hot/sunny windows (for sunny days) and closer to the fireplace (for cloudy days):
Nick got a motorized stand/sit desk also, just in time for an epoch record setting 1 week programing marathon, 120 hours of constant programing, leaving 6.5 hour a day for sleeping/eating. 1.1 million keystrokes and 1.7 million mouse movements. That’s 2.6 keystrokes a second non-stop for 7 days. His observations and a video here:
http://blog.nickwinter.net/the-120-hour-workweek-epic-coding-time-lapse
He did it for fun, working on their next project, Code Combat, which got picked for some prestigious mentoring last month:
http://blog.codecombat.com/post/64658141307/codecombat-in-y-combinator
My projects are a little less ambitious. I played MacGyver and hacked some copper out of an LED light strip to convert Helen’s phone to wireless charging … it worked ok for about a week:
A clue to the mystery photo. It peripherally involves this guy:
We interrupted his daily birding activity:
To ask him a question related to that mystery photo:
She thought about it for about 2 seconds:
And then reacted badly:
If you guessed that mystery photo involved a drink made from fermenting an alien life form in sweet tea for 2 weeks, your guess, while creative, would have been wrong:
If you are brave enough to recreate, info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha.
If you guessed that they mystery photo was the nose of a doggy, then you would have been right!
If you guessed it was the nose of a 9 week old Coton de Tulear puppy, then I’m really impressed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coton_de_Tulear )
After much deliberation, Helen decided she wanted a dog, so she interviewed some candidates via the internets and the lucky winner flew in from Oklahoma yesterday:
She verified he was a he:
And setup a kennel/box system for eventual potty training:
I’m in charge of training him in proper cell phone usage:
And Helen is in charge of cuddling:
Irena came up with his name … I’m still learning it. Something like BonCheck, a Russian word for Bow Tie, which his black eye markings resemble.
And the cats?? They are staying pretty close to the exit:
Bruce
