Few Things Oct 20, 12:29 AM

We are nearing completion on putting tile on our bathroom floor (gosh, using the verb ‘putting’ makes it sound so quaint!) and replacing the tile in the shower. The shower walls needed the plaster torn out (the house is 80 years old and everything is horse hair plaster) and replaced with cement board. The walls are almost completely done with the plaster texture, the faucet, handles & toilet are all back in, and all grout is dry and sealed. The only thing left is for me to cut & install the baseboards and for Rachel and I to paint the walls.

Then we get to have a professional re-glaze the bathtub (maybe). Its an old cast-iron affair with multiple layers of cheap glazing applied to it over the years. I sort of scraped off some of the glazing removing the old caulk. I wasn’t exactly nice with the putty knife.

Been learning Scheme lately (using PLT Scheme for a project at work). Its fun and ratchets the level of power up another notch from Ruby. Ruby is great and all but there are times when it isn’t. Especially with my penchant for metaprogramming lately. LISP style metaprogramming is much nicer with the macros and all. And I am starting to really like the code-as-data and the lambda calculus syntax. Both very fun.

Also busy at work but its been pretty decent this week. No more live football game webcasts on Friday nights. Dunno if we’ll do them for basketball yet.

Oh, we’re getting our giant maple out back trimmed next week. That should be fun.