April is the busiest month…
The dearth of updates has been due to three things simultaneously coming to a head this month. The major one is a project at work with an April 28th deadline. Work is going well: I will curse VBscript as a horror, but have discovered ActivePerl, which comes ready with the Win32::ODBC libraries that have made scripting against MS SQLServer a dream. My Plan B was to compile DBD/DBI in Cygwin, which would have been problematic, since I’m not sure how I would have told the client how to install this. But they run ActivePerl, so I’m scripting against that.
The second thing is the sankyu test for jujitsu. This, too, has a deadline of April 28th. I feel I should graffiti up the back wall with handy tips such as “Relax”, “Bend your knees”, “Posture”, etc. The hint is to use lots of projections at the beginning, such as katana-nage. On the morning of April 19th, we’re supposed to work with Shihan for a bit, so he can see us before the test. It’ll be up at the Soldier’s Memorial on Riverside and 88th Street, so it’s just a quick walk up there.
The last thing, with a deadline before April 28th (say, April 15th), is the co-op application. It’s basically done except for the printing and the reference letters. I’ll take care of the latter today, and get, say, Itai, Scott and Joel to sign off on the Monday. Then I can make lots of photocopies (eight total) and send them off in a big FedEx on Tuesday or Wednesday.