Well, it’s the last day of the second to last month of this year. I don’t have a point there; mostly just reflecting.
I spent the last 4 days in Austin, TX with my whole family visiting my little brother & his wife as they just had their first baby. It was a very nice time and really nice to see everyone. I miss them now; so do Rex & Leo.
Today I went back at this server with the anticipation that I would certainly finish up the files specs and hopefully even the forms or all of it. But, http had a different plan for me today, which was that nothing worked.
I thought i was on to it this afternoon as I had the image in a byte array, but nope. Then something weird happened. I decided to system-out-print the request message, and found that after every spec request, there was a secondary request requesting a testroot/favicon.ico. Apparently this is an internet explorers thing that prints the icon in the favorites or something. Turns out I had bookmarked my local host & port, so I un-favorited that, but still got the secondary request every other ask. It was happening in safari too. I couldn’t figure out what was causing it, and i couldn’t get the image to show in the browser or the jpg test to pass. Argh!
Rex:
Today, i made Rex a little pizza and cut it into quarters. Keith explained to Rex what a quarter was and that he had a whole pizza which was four quarters. About 3 minutes later, Rex had almost finished his first piece and exclaimed “Daddy! I ate one quarter of pizza, and now I have three quarters left on my plate.” Both Keith and I dropped what we were doing and stared at him for a second before cheering and giving him high fives. We were very impressed with his super developed intellect!
Leo:
Leo was smart today too! We have a little tikes basketball hoop. It was set to to the tallest setting for Rex. Leo took a basketball up to it, looked up at the net and dropped the ball under it. He did this over and over. Then I lowered the hoop to a level more suited for him. He picked up the ball, and again dropped it under the net…. Rex showed him what to do properly. Then Leo picked up a ball, and put it over and into the hoop! Little geniuses!!