I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes

I'm building a web page for the fundraising auction (real version to go up Monday) at the school benefit dinner next month, and I'm scavenging graphics from all over the place. So I was here, trying to work around the stupid Flash rollover to get the actual source image, since it wouldn't let me just "View Image". And I opened the page source code to see if I could dig out the location of the graphic itself, as sometimes works. I didn't find it -- resorted to doing a screen capture -- but as I was scrolling through the code, I found this in the comments:

// this shouldn't be implemented as a THROW thingy.
// but the FF3 at least acted funny. It took some considerable long time
// for the FF3 to recover from the catch. Thus return it wih a flag - for now...

Seeing that very human remark amid all the scripty business just made me feel warm and fuzzy all over. You're probably not actually someone I know, little code monkey, but you might as well be.

I love geeks so much.

BTW, it's been a bang-up week or two for me personally at work, in the meantime, between exciting new website development and getting the aforementioned event invitations out. Zoom zoom zoom!

A March calendaring entry is in the works, hopefully tomorrow before we leave for skiing. (I could practically do April at the same time, considering it's largely set in stone before February is even over... but I think I'll hold out.)

Not exactly a weekend update, more of a bookend update. Here goes:

Last Friday I worked a full day with a cold that, after several days as an intermittent chest cough, had moved up into my head and ears. Bleah. It was much better by the end of Saturday, however (fortunately).

Saturday night we went to see the Concord Players' The Lion In Winter, with special bonus theatreatfirst dinner outing beforehand because ironpoet was playing Philip. I enjoyed the production, and the casting was pretty good overall, but I missed navrins. Kibitzing with desireearmfeldt was fun though.

Sunday I drove with David S down to Westchester County to be in a concert production of Iolanthe -- at Temple Israel Center in White Plains, organized by Rabbi Robbie Harris of Shake, Rabbis & Roll (oh yeah, and also of High Holidays at tremontstshul in recent years). 6 hours of driving, 5 hours of rehearsal, 2 hours of performance (plus lunch and dinner). They do a different show every year, and David's been trying for years to get me to come down for it, but since conflicts always seem to arise, this is the first time I've actually been able. I didn't fully appreciate until performance time that the cast comprised 2 rabbis, about 10 cantors or cantorial students, David, and me (!). And I was only scheduled to sing in the fairy chorus (dayenu), but ended up understudying Phyllis for the Act 1 finale (!!) ... when I wasn't filling in the first-tenor line from offstage during the men's sections. :-) I have now had enough pushing the top and bottom of my range to content me for the next few weeks at least. However, I earned particular praise from the musical director/accompanist, Linda Hall, a terrific woman who in her day job is a rehearsal pianist for the Metropolitan Opera (!!!), so that was heartwarming.

Monday: work and shul board meeting. Tuesday: skiing daytrip to Waterville Valley with Tiger Boy, towk and lyriendel; they had a total of about 3 green trails, but I was content to play around/practice on them all day, and had a good time.

Tonight: bridesmaid dress shopping with gilana and muchabstracted! Tomorrow night, Valentine's Day. :-D

Leaving for Vermont today after all. In, like, 15 minutes. :-}
Back lateish Monday.

Lots of leg-breaking to the Mikado folks (whom I should be able to catch next weekend) and Cabaret Night folks (whom I'm sorry to miss, alas). I hear it's gone swell so far.

So I went skiing last night for the first time in 15 years.

( WoWftVoE: If you're going to get amateur ski lessons, it helps to get them from an educational psychologist and parent of a 3-year-old. )