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Hiking

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We went to Big Basin today and it was a lot of fun.
jgrafton drove (lots and lots of twisty roads, many without lanes) and we (Brian, brewer) hiked an easy trail and took photos. Then we went for tasty burgers for dinner.

I’ll post photos at some point.

Threw in a last minute fix on Friday (logging, to help debug an issue) that it turns out I had forgotten to check for null in one case. Result: shittons of NPEs in the log files, which really, really wasn’t pretty. The only thing that saved me was that someone had had the awesome foresight to wrap the piece of vital code that I was logging in try{}catch(Exception e){}. This meant that, instead of killing the entire request, it only logged an error message and continued on happily. Still not good, but not completely fatal either. Meh.

Fun fun fun fun.

Ugh

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I swear I’m so paranoid sometimes.

This morning I walked to Safeway because I had a coupon that expired today for Ragu pasta sauce and pasta. There was some Ragu on sale for $1/package. The coupon required 2 packages of sauce and any one package of pasta. Awesome.

Got home and realized that one of the sauce packets expired October 3, 2008. I was heading to games this afternoon anyway, so I stopped back at Safeway to exchange the sauce. Walked with the lady to the aisle and found there weren’t any more of that kind of sauce left, so she offered me a refund.

Went to process the refund and she looked up the coupons I had used. She then said that I had only paid $0.75 for the two packages of sauce (if you assume the pasta is full price, this is true) after the coupon. I offered to pay the difference between the returned packet and a full jar. She said that she would offer me $0.37 credit towards the jar. However, buying the jar of sauce instead makes the coupon apply, so I should get the full dollar credit toward the jar, and I tried to point this out to her.
She ended up giving me the jar for free and keeping the receipt.

Now I’m all paranoid because I keep thinking that she kept it so she can secretly recharge my credit card tonight or something. I guess I’ll be checking my statements carefully until the charges clear.
I don’t know. I wouldn’t have minded paying the extra $2.whatever difference in price, but I guess she didn’t care or (heh) figured she’d get it later. I hope I didn’t come off as argumentative.

Of course all of this only happened because I forgot this coupon while shopping yesterday and had to go back today.

Also, next time I’ll eat the dollar loss (no pun intended) and just throw out the sauce. If I wasn’t heading back that direction today anyway, I probably would have, but now it’s just going to make me worry tonight. Blah.

At least games were lots of fun. Played Leonardo Da Vinci, which ended up with a 102-versus-13 point spread at the end of the game; Race for the Galaxy with expansion pack, which adds additional “goals” that you can win victory points for (such as being the first to build a 6-cost development or being the first to build one of each good-type world); a random puzzle thing (similar to a rubric’s cube but spherical with little beads in grooves instead of blocks), which I solved after figuring out the trick for; and a game whose name I can’t rememberEl Grande, which involved controlling various regions and scoring points and doing actions, all controlled by a bidding system (which wasn’t Risk). Whee.

Meh

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Politics are making me extremely bitter. :-\
Do not want.

Maybe that’s why I keep feeling the need to shut myself off from the world.

Edit: Here is the thread where I tried to express my views, but it is mostly best summarized as:

Prior to McCain’s recent attempts at calming down his base, I stated it was absolutely unacceptable that anyone would vote for McCain (NOT Republicans, but McCain) because it is unacceptable to put policy before morals and integrity (once the candidate crosses a threshhold of unacceptable morals and integrity) regardless of your agreement with the policies.

My reasoning for this conclusion that McCain had crossed an unacceptable threshold is that McCain was inciting violence among his supporters and putting Obama’s life in danger. Given this, it is unacceptable to vote for him.

My reasoning for him inciting violence is that:

  • Regardless of whether or not McCain was *attempting* to incite violence, he had because there are radical people in the audience who interpret it that way, and this was reported in the media.
  • Once something is reported in the media, it is assumed that he knows about it.
  • If he knows about it, it is his responsibility to speak out and say that isn’t what he meant and distance himself from the remarks. If he doesn’t he gives off the impression that he supports this view, at least to the radical who esposes these views in the first place (which is precicely who needs to be told otherwise).
  • The fact that he hadn’t responded in many days (and indeed, continued on the same line of attacks knowing the consequences) is unacceptable and that more than anything is the issue I was trying to bring up (but not expressing very clearly).

Now that he has stated at rallies that he respects Obama and is trying to make clear that he does not believe Obama is a terrorist, it is once again okay in my mind to vote for him.

Edit edit: What the hell is wrong with people?

Interestingness

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Today was the Folsom Street Fair and it was rather interesting. Lots of nakedness, lots of tied up people, lots of leather.

I’ve been making tasty foods lately. Yesterday and today were avocado-and-egg wraps for lunch and sausage-and-broccoli pasta for dinner. Also been eating lots of oranges and pears. Om nom nom nom.

Yeah. I probably won’t be posting pictures from today for fear of violating my webhost’s terms of service, but you’re welcome to ask me for some.