Saturday, July 29, 2006
Slept in. My favorite breakfast plus Rainier cherries. Patrick had done some intense gardening in the back yard this week. He's sore and achey and scratched up from it. The yard looks much nicer now. I had been scared to take photos of what it looked like when we first moved in, but now I wish I had because the before and after is quite a transformation. Started coding Lodestar. One of our poems used a character I had never seen before. It's a lowercase L with a small diagonal slash through the stem right in the middle. I looked it up, and it's Unicode U+0142 and if you have Unicode fonts installed it looks like this: ł. It took a few minutes of digging, but I found the corresponding HTML entity for it—ł—at fileformat.info. Finished building all the database tables and coding all the poetry. Picked up some orzo salad and drinks at Andronico's. Shabu shabu dinner at Tuan and Tuan's with Phil, Drew, Tony, Eriko, Oscar, Mike, Tuan, August, and Tuan with coffee cake dessert on the roof.