I haven't made a post in a while, so I figure I should rectify that.

I've been keeping busy at work, we're moving into slight crunch mode right now, so I've been in on the weekend once or twice. Nothing too bad yet, so I'm not terribly stressed out or anything, but I can see a bigger crunch coming down the road. It happens and as long as it's not too long I don't mind.

I've been programming at home again for the first time in a LONG time. I'm not just starting something and then getting frustrated with it and putting it down either. I've made a lot of progress on my configuration utility so far, which excites me quite a bit. Unfortunately, I've run into a weird issue with visual studio in which if you do a pre-build event (run the configuration utility), it won't allow the state of the build to change. In essence, I can't change the files and expect it to rebuild if the thing changing the files is part of the pre-build step. Lame. I've found a supposed workaround which is to have project A depend on project B and then have project B do the pre-build step for project A, which seems to work. The weird thing is that if I run it, std::ofstream claims it can't open the file to write it. I searched for a while to figure out if it can possibly give an error code as to why this is, but it doesn't seem like there is one. It sets a fail bit, but that doesn't tell me a damn thing. Lame. Hopefully once Habib gets back to me about how he managed to do it in Bossinabox (I can't figure out how he managed to do it even though I have the source code), I'll be able to get past that little problem. The weirdest part is if I run it from the command line (or anywhere else for that matter), it works fine... just not as a pre-build or post-build step.

I've been cooking much more lately, having made ratatouille, enchiladas, chile, and a quinoa casserole. I've been enjoying it much more since having gotten a bunch of vegetarian cook books from my parents for my birthday. I've been doing the cook on Thursday thing for the house again, which is nice. It gets me to try other stuff, especially since I've been letting them choose the meal instead of me picking it.

Climbing is going well; I can't wait for summer to come so I can go outdoors more. It's going to be fantastic.

Saw Say Anything in concert yesterday at Neumos, which was REALLY good. The bands before them were all just ok, but they really played well. I didn't care for their new stuff as much (probably because I don't know it nearly as well), but their older stuff was fantastic.

Tags: life