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paint horse v6
Apr. 24th, 2004 12:43 amWhat I been doin' in a nutshell:
1) Spent last weekend painting my bike and helmet. It took 6 cans of paint - 2 each of base coat, color coat, and clear coat. But now it's this funky green/purple number, where the color depends on viewing angle and light level. The clear coat didn't come out as glossy as I would have liked, so I'm going to have to get an auto wax or something for it.
2) Spent some quantity time with the horse. I hadn't quite planned it that way, but oh well. There's a fire road in the Harold Parker State Forest that the maps call Stearns Pond Road, but we call the Galloping Trail. Elaine used to train the race horses there, because it's about a mile long, is free of obstructions, and has good sight lines. Cheyenne gets really excited and unmanageable when he starts to run, so I thought I'd get his ya-ya's out by galloping him up and back and up again. That was fine as far as it went, but I took a wrong turn leaving, and ended up in a part of the forest I'd never been in before. Really nice trails, and I knew I had to come back out to the road eventually, so I wasn't worried. I gave him his head for the most part, figuring that horses have a much better sense of direction in general, especially around dinner time. Sadly, this assumption failed once or twice, and it was about 7pm by the time we got back to the barn.
3) IPv6 testing at UNH. This was the 3rd time in the last year and a half that I've been up there to run this particular test suite. Each time, I stumble over the same tricky test cases, spend a lot of time debugging, and swear I'll check in my hacks, or figure out better fixes. In at least one case, I didn't, and had to recreate my hack. In at least one other case, my fix was invalidated by someone else's code changes.
Now I've got to check in those changes, get ready for the next round of testing, put my bike back together, and take it apart again to ship to Scotland. All by Thursday.
1) Spent last weekend painting my bike and helmet. It took 6 cans of paint - 2 each of base coat, color coat, and clear coat. But now it's this funky green/purple number, where the color depends on viewing angle and light level. The clear coat didn't come out as glossy as I would have liked, so I'm going to have to get an auto wax or something for it.
2) Spent some quantity time with the horse. I hadn't quite planned it that way, but oh well. There's a fire road in the Harold Parker State Forest that the maps call Stearns Pond Road, but we call the Galloping Trail. Elaine used to train the race horses there, because it's about a mile long, is free of obstructions, and has good sight lines. Cheyenne gets really excited and unmanageable when he starts to run, so I thought I'd get his ya-ya's out by galloping him up and back and up again. That was fine as far as it went, but I took a wrong turn leaving, and ended up in a part of the forest I'd never been in before. Really nice trails, and I knew I had to come back out to the road eventually, so I wasn't worried. I gave him his head for the most part, figuring that horses have a much better sense of direction in general, especially around dinner time. Sadly, this assumption failed once or twice, and it was about 7pm by the time we got back to the barn.
3) IPv6 testing at UNH. This was the 3rd time in the last year and a half that I've been up there to run this particular test suite. Each time, I stumble over the same tricky test cases, spend a lot of time debugging, and swear I'll check in my hacks, or figure out better fixes. In at least one case, I didn't, and had to recreate my hack. In at least one other case, my fix was invalidated by someone else's code changes.
Now I've got to check in those changes, get ready for the next round of testing, put my bike back together, and take it apart again to ship to Scotland. All by Thursday.
