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Obligatory: That’s what she said. I’m glad I’m done with this project because it was impossible to talk about it without getting those comments. I’m also glad because it looks freaking awesome.

The craziest thing about this project is I wasn’t planning on doing it in the first place. I just had so much leftover wood that I couldn’t not do it. (yes, TWSS) I wanted to have that point at the edge of the living room be the boundary between public and private and have a wood to carpet boundary, but I guess since the guest bathroom is public this makes more sense. Of course, I still have extra flooring and no more floor to cover, but I think I’ll live.

Oh and here’s a side-by-side before and after:

Today, I (finally) laid some tile in the guest bathroom. Multi-colored slate in a basic grid pattern. There’s a part of me that wishes I had gone diagonal or used some smaller tiles, but my sister Susan pointed out to me that it’s already very visually interesting with the different colors and textures.

    if (lastCall != nil && [lastCall timeIntervalSinceNow] < 300) {
        if ([cacheData valueForKey:scenario] == nil) return; //user double clicked update
        [self loadScenario:[cacheData valueForKey:scenario]];
        return;
    }

Turns out calling timeIntervalSinceNow on a date in the past gives you a negative number. And as now gets later and later it gets more and more negative. So, it will never be more than 300, and our app never lets users refresh the data. Thank God, I never wrote that number out to disk, so if you shut down the app and reopen it, the app will successfully load new results.

In other news I hate rich client apps. If this were a web app, or I had done what I planned on doing earlier and putting the timeout inside of the file, I could fix it. There’s basically no way I can fix it at this point. If anybody using the app reads this. I am sorry. My bad.

Apparently, those durn Californians are so intent on making Texas like their old home they brang the earthquakes with ‘em.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_Texas_Earthquake.html?imw=Y&plckCurrentPage=0&sid=sitelife.statesman.com.