Today was the day of getting things done, which was actually the theme of the entire week. For example, I finally used my Christmas gift certificate for curtain-making lessons.
The curtains lesson went great; I spent the first hour lesson getting the measurements straight and coming up with the game plan for this week Thursday (cut panels from the fabric I got from Textile Warehouse and iron/pin them in prep for stitching).
Also this week, I spent some good time hacking together a lexer for 3dsmax MaxScript, so I can eventually put together a doxygen filtering app that translates it into something like java or cpp. I made so little progress with Flex/Bison (yay, thanks ACM bookshelf!), that I found ANTLRWorks and made some actual progress. I did an all-nighter and flew through the EBNF that comes with the MaxScript reference, debugged and fixed some syntax, and then got to my first left-recursion errors.
Saturday, I took the girls to the farmer's market, bought some grub, a donut for Bpu, and an apple for Ipu.
I got to go fabric and notions shopping with Bpu, and harvested some hardware and tools for the curtains. And the same day, the upstairs hand rail I started a few weeks ago got filled and sanded, ready for staining. My parents came down for dinner and watched the girls while Cpu and I had a night out with some parents from Bpu's pre-school. And I fixed the math operand left-recursion errors in my grammar.
This morning started out by getting my Fantasy Football together and forgetting to do my picks for the pool. Not auspicious. But it was followed up with staining of the aforementioned hand rail, the annual pre-winter oiling of the picnic table, and the installation of a light fixture I bought last week.
Then this evening, we went and hung out with my old college roomates, one from out of town. As luck would have it, one has written his share of grammars with ANTLR and offered to give me some tips. And the other almost got a Cosmic Encounter game started. Awesome!
Also this week, I spent some good time hacking together a lexer for 3dsmax MaxScript, so I can eventually put together a doxygen filtering app that translates it into something like java or cpp. I made so little progress with Flex/Bison (yay, thanks ACM bookshelf!), that I found ANTLRWorks and made some actual progress. I did an all-nighter and flew through the EBNF that comes with the MaxScript reference, debugged and fixed some syntax, and then got to my first left-recursion errors.
Saturday, I took the girls to the farmer's market, bought some grub, a donut for Bpu, and an apple for Ipu.
I got to go fabric and notions shopping with Bpu, and harvested some hardware and tools for the curtains. And the same day, the upstairs hand rail I started a few weeks ago got filled and sanded, ready for staining. My parents came down for dinner and watched the girls while Cpu and I had a night out with some parents from Bpu's pre-school. And I fixed the math operand left-recursion errors in my grammar.
This morning started out by getting my Fantasy Football together and forgetting to do my picks for the pool. Not auspicious. But it was followed up with staining of the aforementioned hand rail, the annual pre-winter oiling of the picnic table, and the installation of a light fixture I bought last week.
Then this evening, we went and hung out with my old college roomates, one from out of town. As luck would have it, one has written his share of grammars with ANTLR and offered to give me some tips. And the other almost got a Cosmic Encounter game started. Awesome!
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