I’ve had some ideas for projects kicking around the back of my head for a while. Now that I have some free coding time,
I’m planning on getting to them. Or, at the very least, I can document some of my thought processes around them so I can
come back to them later, if painting my bedroom seems like a more valuable use of my time.
Think of this as a functional spec. Except (hopefully) more entertaining.
[[Wiki Links]]
There are a few wiki plug-ins out there for WordPress out there already, so in some sense, I’m re-inventing the wheel.
I’ve looked at the code for some, though, and they don’t do quite what I want.
At the bare minimum, this plug-in will allow me to put double square brackets around words that correspond to existing
Pages in my blog. Pages are a WordPress thing where you can have static, er, pages that aren’t blog entries. My (
slim) about page, for example. I haven’t found them to be terribly
useful as they are, but turn them into a wiki and maybe you have something.
I spent most of the afternoon out in the garden. I’ve had a pretty productive weekend. I cleaned up the remaining
petunias, some of which were still flowering. I felt bad about pulling up flowering flowers, but they were pretty
ragged-looking and we’ve been getting pretty consistent frost in the evenings.
Once the petunias were up, I dug up the garden and planted a bunch of the flower bulbs I bought. I buy bulbs every year,
but this is actually the first year I’ve had the time to plant all of them. I feel pretty good about that. If all goes
well, I’ll have lots of tulips and hyacinths and things in the garden.
I also used the fork to soften up bits of the lawn and plant crocus and other bulbs around the rock and the tree and by
the road. All that stuff is supposed to only last till maybe April, before I’d take the mower to it. I like seeing
little flowers in the lawn in springtime. I wasn’t paying too much attention to where they were going, so I hope it
doesn’t look weird. We’ll have to see in the spring, I guess.
I didn’t plant anything in the back yard. There are already quite a few bulbs back there already.
I trimmed back the rose too. I have a climbing rose that the previous owner tried unsuccessfully to kill off. I think
it’s kind of nice, even though I’m not sure what to do with it. I just let it climb up to the top of a trellis and trim
off the roaming tendrils that catch on my clothes when I walk by. It did give me lots of little pink flowers this year,
so I’m happy to keep it around.
Yesterday I mulched up the leaves on the lawn in the back and raked the leaves in the front. I’m working from the theory
that the mulched leaves will help the soil and not kill the grass. It worked okay last year. I have, I should note, lots
and lots of trees in the back yard. About 12, I’d say. And more overhanging from the neighbours. That makes for a lot of
leaves. The important thing is to keep them from staining the patio stones and killing the grass. Beyond that, I don’t
want to have to bother to bag them all. I tried that the first year and it’s just way too much work.
All I have left to do is clean out the eaves and kind of reorganize things so that the winter maintenance stuff is
easier to get at than the gardening stuff. Then I can just wait for the snow to come.
It’s November, which makes it some sort of NaSomethingMo. I’m gonna do the blog post thing. I know there are some people
who would really like me to join in the novel writing madness. I don’t think I have the wherewithal for it this year,
though.
My plan is to do something vaguely related to software or software development or talk about personal projects I’m
working on during the week. You know, to keep the mind limber. The weekends will be more of the usual sort of thing I
tend to post here.
One blog post, every day. Before midnight. It’s the first day and I’m already cutting it close.