everburning

Apparently, no-one shot me again. I’m still kicking. A little behind on the blogging so I’m not going to catch up. I’ll just skim the last month. Owen and Natalies wedding was a lot of fun. I left my position at TrekLogic for one at Security Compass which should be interesting.

There have been some books, some movies, some video games. Other events, trials and tribulations. But, that’s the condensed version.

Hopefully things are slowing down a bit and I’ll be blogging regular like again but we’ll see.

Spent the weekend in Elora at a wedding for some friends. Stacy was actually the bestman for the wedding.

We went over on Friday afternoon, wandered around town a bit and then helped to decorate the hall (which was used for both the wedding and the reception.) Was fun to get everything setup and arranged and it looked quite nice once we were all done (at least I think so). Hit the pub after that, which is always good times.

Saturday was the actual wedding, but it didn’t start until 1500. Stacy had to go and get her hair done starting at 1030 so I had the whole day to wander around town, take some pictures and read the paper. I spent a bit of time talking to the owner of Canadian Casual Kilts about everything from kilts to concerts. He’s a really nice guy, and has some kilt options that seem fairly reasonably priced (at least, to someone that hasn’t done any shopping around, heh). I haven’t decided if I want to get a kilt yet or not. I guess spending the day in one on the 26th will tell me if I’m confortable enought or not.

Anyway, after wandering around I spent some time making sure everything was ready in the hall had a pint, went back to the hall and turned the lights on, ended up getting another pint after meeting some friends and was feeling good (as I hadn’t eaten since 0900) for the wedding start at 1500. Wedding was good and seemed to run smoothly, the wedding party took off and we hit the pub again (although this time I was smart and only got a coke. Try as I might they just wouldn’t bring me any bread. I waited 40 minutes before having to leave and nada.)

We got the hall all setup, figured out a few details that jumped out at us and I think the evening went smashingly.

Sunday was a day of feeling hungover (poor, poor Stacy, heh) and eating little sandwitches.

I got a lot of pictures (220 I think was the final count) I need to get my photo gallery up so I can show people. I’ve put some up temporarily if Austin and Lori wanted any of them and so I could print them at Blacks but the rest of you will have to wait.

Well, Stacy and I were out being good consumers tonight. We went down to the Eatons center after work and picked out our wedding rings. Mines titanium which I think is kinda cool. Stacy got a really nice one that matches the engagement ring really well.

Along with the rings I also finally broke down and bought a pair of Birkenstocks. I haven’t actually owned sandals in about 10 years or so. Will be a bit of a change for me. I’m used to combat boots or docs.

I’ve been trying to buy a nice jacket for a few weeks not. Not a suit jacket but something that looks like that. Something kind of dressy but also casual. I realized today while looking for one why I hate shopping. It seems like 9 times out of 10 I’ll see a jacket or something that one of the maniqueins is wearing in the window and think, that’s really nice, I’d like that. So, I go into the store and lo and behold, they don’t actually have that jacket. Not on the shelf anywhere. I don’t get it, why display it if you don’t carry it? What’s the deal?

Anyway, I’m just killing time until World of Warcraft comes back online. Back to surfing the inter-tron.

Has been a hectic weekend. We went up to Owen Sound on saturday morning with Stacy’s father and brother, kind of a meeting of the families. Went to my parents house for diner and stopped off at StoneTree to hammer out some of the wedding details.

We got a lot of it sorted out. Picked the meal, rented a projector, talked tables and linens and drink costs. All that fun stuff that needs to be sorted. About all thats left in that front is to tell them final numbers for the meal and make sure one of the deserts dosen’t contain lactose (which we mistakenly picked two cheese cakes to begin with). So, all that wedding jazz is coming along nicely.

While I was up Kirk had his camera up there and I was fidding with it. It’s a Cannon Digital Rebel, first generation I think. Man is that a sweet ass camera. I’m used to my little Nikon point and shoot thingy, but once you get the larger SLR in your hands and start fiddling with the options, it is a sweet sweet thing. I just wish I could affort one in some shape or form. Maybe I’ll take a look and see whats on Ebay at the moment.

We headed from Owen Sound back to Brampton on saturday night and this morning got up and went to look for fabric and a pattern for Stacys bridesmaids. Well, Stacy did. I sat around and read my bood, heh. Took the Go bus from Brampton back to Toronto in the early afternoon.

We’ve started to get reply cards back. I feel a bit bad as I still have to get two addresses and send out the invitations to those two people. Hopefully they don’t get the wrong idea, heh.

Anyway, off to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie. we’ll see if it’s any good.

As you may have noticed, I'm trying to get in the habit of updating this on a semi-regular basis (as opposed to my once every 1-3 month habit). We'll see how it goes.

Still working on everburning. I've got the quotes and the news sections done and could, and may, put them online. I'm currently working on the photo gallery which could be difficult depending on what I do. I still have to check that textdrive supports rmagick, and if they don't, if they'll install it. But, assuming I get some time, I should have something up relatively soon. Once it's up I'll move this blog over there. I just like controlling my own stuff I guess.

I've been trying to get back into EWL programming and to that end have done a couple of little cleanups/fixes in the code. Nothing major, my brain isn't ready to accept working on anything like ewl_tree2 or ewl_paned at the moment. I think it's coming back, just taking a while.

Nathan has some interesting plans in the works to abstract out the EWL graphics a step further. I've currently pulled out the window and canvas code into engines (it was already wrapped in #ifdef's just had to extract it out) but he's thinking of taking it a step further and abstracting out all the evas/edje related calls in the code. This would give us the flexibility of completely changing out backend. So, you could have a gtk/pango backend along side the Evas/Edje backend.

I've actually been spending a bunch of my time lately looking up information on D20 Future. I've owned this for a while and Anderson is currently running a campaign in it for a couple people but I'm toying with the idea of making my own campaign. So, I've been looking up other peoples ideas and other tools that might be useful for this kind of thing. If you've got any suggestions send me an email and let me know. Not sure if it'll pan out or not, I have a tendency to get bogged down in details (and with a whole galaxy to work with, that's a lot of details.

On a final note, the wedding plans seem to be coming together pretty well. We sent out the invitations the other day and they've started to arrive (I still have to get two addresses, I'm a bad man, heh). Other plans seem to be coalescing into something coherent as well. It should all be good. I hope.