I spent the morning today just doing email and things, my sister Heather bought her wedding dress and emailed me some pictures, its nice. We chatted some about her wedding plans, and about mine.
I checked my gmail account this morning and found that the Google Talk thing within gmail had been enabled for my account – neat! So I bothered DarkSol a bit to try it out:
Google Talk in Gmail “popped in” browser
Google Talk in Gmail “popped out” of browser
It’s pretty neat, but not worth anything beyond the novelty of it.
Eventually I got to cleaning the house while Michael went out to the grocery store (no, we weren’t stocking up on bottled water for the storm, we just hadn’t gone shopping in two weeks and the only things we had to eat in the house were potatoes and strawberry jelly).
The flurries started shortly before 2PM and we decided to go out to The Roadhouse Grille in Skippack. It wasn’t busy, we ordered a bottle of Charles Krug Merlot and I ordered Crab Bisque and the “Jumbo Lump Crabmeat, Shrimp & Scallops with Fresh Basil and Cherry Tomatoes in a Rich Roasted Red Pepper Cream Sauce over Black Fettuccine.” For dessert I got the “Chocolate Damnation” cake, which was very good. Yum yum!
While eating dinner I brought up the topic of embarking on some new perl project. Michael wisely suggested I take a look at Perl/Tk and get myself familiarized with writing a GUI.
We got home around 4 and bundled up for the storm, outside was looking like this by 5:30PM:
I spent the early part of the evening playing with Perl/Tk, which is pretty fun and much simpler than I expected. The plan is to take R2D2’s irssi Weather Script and make it into a GUI weather application. I got myself familiarize with text placement and alignment, and after about an hour I had an obnoxiously colored app whose only functionality is quitting. The obnoxious colors are due to my playing around with text placement and needing to see where things landed when I messed around with it. I’ll work on it more tomorrow, it won’t be difficult to edit R2’s current script into a subroutine that can be easily plugged into the app.
And now I’m sitting on the couch in front of the fireplace with Michael enjoying a bottle of Tröegs Nugget Nectar Imperial Amber Ale. They say we’ll be getting about a foot of snow with this storm. I love snowstorms.