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This weekend saw John and I getting all crazy excited wanting to smash people in the head with our elbows and slide, split-legged, under trucks. Oh, yeah, it was after watching the amazing Thai movie Ong Bak. If you haven’t seen it, go rent it now.

What makes the movie so amazing is that there’s no CG, no wires, and no stunt doubles. Well, the last bit sounds like they got a bunch of stupid actors. Really it’s just the stunt guys playing the parts. But they do a good job. Not cheesy and not wooden. And you learn that yelling “Fuck Muay Thai!” is a good way to get kicked in the head. Always a good lesson, I feel.

That night also saw me committing another set of changes to Sproutit.com. Here’s the fun thing that’s come up. Today I get a message from Charles saying he’s not seeing any of my additions and (logically) is wondering just what I’m doing with my time. I can’t tell him about the obsessive-compulsive gambling and gun running, but I luckily don’t have to. Turns out the server isn’t looking at the code I’m sending in. Silly server. Now that it’s all fixed, confidence is restored. So, yay.

Yeah, Sproutit. You’re probably interested in what I’m finding out from working on this, aren’t you? Well, inherited code is sometimes really hard to jump into, but I’m getting a good handle on it. The more code you write into a function, the more likely something’s going to fail (yeah, I had to learn that. You’d think I’d already know it, huh?). And that nothing is quite as satisfying as logging in changes 10 minutes after they’re requested. Once again, I love Rails. Really, just for that fact alone.

The rest of the weekend saw Elaine and I watching part of The Pianist and taking Poly to the dog park. No little dogs were in the little dog area this time, so she went in with the big dogs. There were two Maltese’s there which were very friendly (well, the male was) and a Weineramer. He chased her around one time, never even coming close to her. It’s pretty amazing to watch an IG run at full speed. Anyway, a boxer (I think) came later and chased her again. So she was exhausted by the time we left. It does her good, though, just to get to be around and deal with other dogs. We became members for the amazingly high price of $2, too. We’ll have to be careful what we spend money on from now on just to pay for that!

Not much else going on, just work and home life. Oh! We got rid of our fish last weekend. We haven’t been able to take care of him like he really needs, so we thought it better to give him to a home that could. So he’s now living at a pet store in Rogers. I hope he gets healthy again and goes to a good home so he can get even bigger.

Just me trying to be more viral. It’ll never happen with a cat/boss blog like this, though. Confused? Read this. It’s got Max and I feeling pathetic. Thanks, Seth!