I missed a couple of days writing. On Monday, Rex & I travelled by commercial airline up to Minnesota. It was kind of on a whim, but for good reason. I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned my brother-in-law & sister-in-law’s situation on here–I know i’ve started a couple posts about it, but I don’t know if I ever posted them. I won’t get into the details now either, but they are suffering through an unfathomable tragedy, which is the loss of their 22.5 week pregnancy. I felt for her so much that Keith and I decided that maybe I should be here to support them even if I don’t even see them–just in case. At the last minute, I decided to bring just Rex too.
Anyway, so Monday I worked right up until my must-leave-the-house-now time and still had to pack both myself & rex. They were calling last call as we were running to the airport. On the airplane, i worked more, but honestly completely forgot to blog about it.
So what have I been working on? The server, and finally today, it works! All of it! I’m going to keep working on it a little more tonight to try to clean it up some, because it’s kind of a mess.
As I was dismantling and regrouping yet another header string, i really wanted to just carry the one piece of information forward to the next function, and almost added it as an argument, but then I thought, “hmmm, i know how to make maps in java now, why don’t i just turn the entire request into one big map and plop that around instead of a string that repeatedly needs to be deconstructed and reconstructed?” That took more time than I wanted it to, but I was much more at ease about the whole system once that was done. Now i had all the information anywhere I needed it without having to re-search for it. I don’t know why I hadn’t done that in the beginning, as that is 100% how i would have done it in clojure. I guess it was just the shock of getting used to java.
After that, I made a couple more tweeks to add to the map, and then suddenly, viola! All the specs passed!
Rex:
We took Rex to a christmas light show this evening. As soon as he looked out the window and saw the lights he said “Mommy! Look at the lights! They are amazing!”
Leo:
I’ve called Leo every night since we’ve been gone, and he is always just so smiley to see me. When i blow him kisses over facetime, he puts his hand to his mouth, smacks his lips, and sends one back. It’s very cute.