friends
by bear
Just got back from a memorial service for a close friend of lainens who passed away last month. I knew Leni (all of lainen’s theatre friends have nicknames it seems ;) from the many shows I used to help lainens out with. The memorial service was both sad and funny because everyone was telling stories about that time of their lives - they would do two or three shows a year back then. What amazes me, and I guess people with kids will recognize this, is that while only a couple years have passed since I last saw the kids they have grown! Leni and Bill (Bill passed 4 years ago) have three great kids ages 14, 16 and 17 and I just remember them as three balls of energy that were always laughing and running around. Now one is almost out of high school and wants to be a teacher, one is a junior fire fighter (well almost, she isn’t quite 16 :) and the youngest is going to high school next year. It was fun catching up on their lives and talking with them. I need to figure out how I can keep in touch on a more regular basis with them as the vibe I got about them living with their Aunt didn’t seem like it was all goodness and fun :( I did give them my cell phone number but I think we need to visit and be available if they need anything. This Sunday we will be packing all of us into the truck and driving down to Maryland to visit with our best friend and to celebrate his mom’s birthday (July 4th – same day as my dad’s - how cool is that :). Hopefully the three hour trip will be as un-eventful as last time but you never know with lainen’s dad. It will be cool to catch up with them and mom Jinx (she lives in California now) and lainens will have a chance to hang with Elora and Kira (Welton’s kids) and her best friend Melissa (Welton’s sister.) topic change alert ;) I’ve been thinking recently of how to keep track of unit test information and results for Chandler. Since the tinderclients perform continious builds, run unit tests and generate data for those steps, there should be a way to chart that over time and give online status information via email, irc or web. My first thought was that a database would be needed and I’ve even started to map out what the schema would be but just now (yep, really just now ;) I realized I should use the Chandler repository to store this info - how cool would that be! I would have to mirror the data to some sort of flat file to ensure no loss of data tho. Time to find out what the data model is and what domains of information are available and also time to go hug the family. ciao