Lazy Friday
Today I let myself be a little lazy; it’s Friday, after all. I made myself lunch1 and sat on the couch and watched an episode of Sanditon (I started it last night, so I’m only on Season 1, Episode 2. No spoilers please).
I feel wildly unproductive, but again, Friday, and it’s so easy to compare today with last Friday, when I cleaned my whole house like a tidying tornado. Today I worked on my coding project, and while I worked on it steadily for the last 2.5 hours, the visible progress is much less than the before-and-after of a cleaned up house.
The Friendship Database: Progress
We’re still calling it the Friendship Database because apparently none of y’all have opinions. I left you a little button and everything! What should I call it?
When I wrote about the Friendship DB on Wednesday, I just had the database set up and had started trying to get it to interface with my website. That proved too many steps to take at once, so I brought it back to my local machine while I learn more about how my JavaScript and Python apps are interacting with each other. Here’s where I’m at on the user interface:
The database is bigger than it looks on the front end - it can store all sorts of information about a friend as well as the details of our meetups, but this is the most basic setup I could do to figure out how to ‘GET’ and ‘POST’ via the JavaScript app (which makes the page dynamic - it accepts button pushes and re-loads the list of names).
When I pick this back up next week, I’m going to add some more entry fields, flesh out the friend display, and start working on a form for meetups. When I feel comfortable with that, I’ll try to migrate it up to my real live site.
Today I:
Almost forgot to write my pages but did it just before I went to yoga
Took a yoga class (and stayed in downward dog about 100% longer than I could last week!)
Ate lunch & watched Sanditon
Worked on my friendship database
Printed business cards - they are bigger than they are supposed to be but what says “remember me!” better than a flimsy biz card the size of a playing card??
Wrote this post, and then I’m going to pick up the kiddo early! I tried to do this even while I was working because it feels like such a treat to spend Friday afternoons with him!
Today I felt:
A little lazy but content with it. Next week is shaping up to be a very busy week, and I’m sure the weekend will be busy as well with a couple activities + mother’s day so I am fine taking this day to be slow and restful.
Next week I want to:
I voluntold myself into some farm work with my father-in-law next week, so that will take up Monday and Wednesday. Wish me luck there!
I’m still planning to do some yoga and some running. If I have any energy and time left by Friday, I want to do another long walk. Tuesday I’ll commit to the Friendship Database work and Thursday I am going to help my sister-in-law with some last minute tasks before her baby comes the beginning of June! It’s sure to be a busy week, indeed.
A quesadilla sandwich, for those of you who care enough to click on footnotes. I had leftover fajita chicken + peppers but no tortillas, so I got out some sourdough bread and made a grilled cheese with it. After it had cooked I added on salsa and sour cream - actually quite nice.