Anticipation

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What did we do this week?

Well… not everything we wanted to.

Heather has gotten back into Craigslist with a vengeance, and I would like to say she has gotten great deals on everything she liked, but it has been more negotiations that fall through than transactions so far. On the bright side, at least from my prospective, at least half the attempted transactions are us selling things instead of purchases.

I finally got around to signing up for a shooting competition that was scheduled to take place over the weekend. Unfortunately there was a major thunderstorm blowing in that morning and they called the event off on account of lightning risk. Maybe next month I guess.

So, the short version is we haven’t done a whole lot yet, but boy do we have plans. 🙂

-Jordan

 

 

A Few Thoughts

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Ok, so remember that website I was going to have up by June 1?

Work has consumed a lot more of my energy than I was expecting, as well as other things just eating more time than I would have liked.

I will leave you with a few thoughts…

 

Point one: our kitchen currently has fresh: Bananas, peaches, 2 kinds of apple, kiwi, strawberries, raspberries and an orange. It’s an amazing assortment of things to choose from.

Point two: Heather and I went to the hospital Sunday to visit and pray with some friends who just had twins. Twins who arrived at 29 weeks! I wont begin to try to sort out what to attribute to the grace of God and what to attribute to medial technology, but it’s amazing all around. More details here by the way.

So, those may be disjointed thoughts, but I find myself being pretty glad I live in the 21st century… we have it pretty good!

-Jordan

New Location, Same View

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I suppose people are tired of hearing about my website adventures, so I will just summarize:

  • Heatherandjordan.com is now hosted by site5.com, and the move went really well
  • They have Django installed by default, with MySQL drivers already configured, but it’s Django 1.3, and I developed against 1.4 so I need to do a little tuning.

 

Beyond that, I thought I would share one of the unexpected amusements I sometimes have sent my way:

I am not the only Jordan in the world, nor am I the only Jordan Nelson in the world. This means that having used my name as my e-mail address sometimes means slight typos result in my getting mail intended for another Jordan.

So, what adventures are being had by another Jordan today you may ask.

Apparently my doppelgänger is enrolled in some sort of online class that required students to submit a “Competency Goal Statement” also many students have been using Google to write their statements. This greatly vexes the teacher who has now made threats of administrative action against those who would plagiarize such an important assignment. On the one hand, I have a hard time faulting students for not knowing what one of those statements might look like, on the other hand I would rather my remote namesake didn’t resort to cheating.

I would feel more sympathy for the instructor if she had time to respond to my nice note asking that she stop sending me class material.

-Jordan

Hosting Changes

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Ok, so it didn’t take long to pull the trigger…

We are moving over to Site5!

I am going to start the ball rolling as soon as I finish posting this, so there may be some downtime… hopefully not more than a day or two.

Granted, in that case you probably won’t see this, but maybe beforehand 🙂

-Jordan

Running Django On Godaddy

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Don’t, just don’t

/sigh

So I really really didn’t want to give up on this, but frankly after killing most of my weekend trying to hammer out the MySQL versioning issues and getting more or less nowhere I think I am going to just give up.

One option would be to just use another database for my backend, but considering the systems I normally work on are backed by DB2 and Oracle databases… I can’t bring myself to shift to an option even less substantial than MySQL

The other obvious option is to just migrate this site to another hosting company. A proposition that is looking more attractive by the day, but still gives me headaches thinking about the potential disasters along the way. Just tweaking some settings last weekend wiped out a post here, and I can imagine loosing all images, comments or some other substantial chunk of the site.

Readers of this blog will be among the first to know if and when I decide to make some sort of leap I suppose 🙂

-Jordan

Toasted Asparagus And Pesto

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(Technically this is a repost, as it went up a week ago and then got lost during some configuration changes)

 

Toasted Asparagus And Pesto
by Jordan

Sorry I failed to think of a remotely creative name for these, but we were looking for new ways to enjoy the great asparagus we have been seeing at the store as of late.


The batch pictured above was the second time I made these, and in my attempt to get nicely browned cheese on top, I ended up over-cooking the bread on that back row. All the same, the sandwiches or whatever you want to call them were pretty good.


Ingredients:

  •     Steamed asparagus
  •     Sandwich thins
  •     Pesto
  •     Provolone cheese

As the asparagus is steaming, toast the sandwich things, and then spread about a half-tablespoon of pesto on each one. When the asparagus is softened a little,  place a few stalks on each sandwich thin and top with a slice of cheese.

Place them under a broiler, and watch them closely

Enjoy!

If you are going to use a stone like I did, I recommend that you preheat the stone in the oven for a minute or two before loading on the sandwiches.

-Jordan