Passport, Birthday, Party, Note
posted on march 14, 2004, tag: new york
My passport should be on its way. Katia came down to the post office with me on her day off and solemnly swore she knew me and that I was who I said I was. We had to have it expedited, because we're leaving in about 6 weeks, and I don't want to take my chances with the US Government and the US Post Office. They're both bad enough on their own, but together—good lord.
Today is Katia's 23rd birthday. Last night we had a party at a bar near our apartment which we called a week ago to ask whether or not there were any parties planned for the 13th. We were told there was nothing going on, but when we walked into the bar, 3/4 of it was sectioned off for someone else's birthday party. Meanwhile, we had invited 40 people. I complained that we were screwed and we got happy-hour prices for the rest of the night, which somewhat made up for the fact that we all had to cram into one corner of the place.
We had a really nice time and got home some time around 3AM, which is the latest we've been out in a very long time. Both of us had drunk an insane amount of Vodka, and neither of us were at all intoxicated, which was nice. In fact, the only drawback to the night was waking up this morning—hangover free—with a liquidly feeling about my body. It's probably from the four glasses of water I drank before bed.
For her birthday, I got Katia a pink iPod mini. Unfortunately, it won't arrive until sometime around March 24. I waited too long to order it—only because I wanted to see it in person before purchasing it. It's currently being engraved and packaged and hopefully she'll get it soon.
On a site-related note: The reason for the lack of content lately is that I've been completely recoding the back-end of the site. I'm leaving Movable Type after a great two years, and I'm going back to creating my own system. I'm also switching to a new data model based on XML and XSL, which has been a lot of fun to play with. There's a ton of work to be done yet, so it might be slow around here in the interim.
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Josh on 03/14/2004:
The real question is will your CMS be available to play with? All these nice tricks you have with MT on your site, bundled into it's own package with a hot XML system behind the wheel would be pleasant.
dustym on 03/14/2004:
Assuming it's written in PHP, are you using standard expat or domxml? I've been working on a del.icio.us class using domxml and it's pretty rad stuff. I'm kinda itchin for php5 and the re-implementation of domxml as well as SimpleXML (amongst other things).