midnight synapse jamboree

a lot happened yesterday.

gabriel is now the father of two boys, born yesterday, twins. i don't know the details yet, but things went well and both are healthy. a friend suggested naming them "A" and "B". i think B would develop an inferiority complex.

gabriel and i have more or less decided to move back in with each other. we're contemplating renovation of the place i live, called "the mill." i've lived there since 1993. it never really got finished because i moved in half-way through construction. i'm excited about reworking it. since it's essentially a communal house, top on our list is creating private space so that sleeping and cooking can happen at the same time and improving the child friendliness.

i stayed up half the night reviving old coding skills while working on a website for my new architecture job. i enjoy working on code. it seems to be in my blood. how else could i spend 18 hours in front of a screen pondering rollover buttons, database queries, .ini files and javascript errors? i wonder if the reason i can do this is also why i enjoy sitting in meditation? i do notice similar sensations while doing both.

i'm now more or less functional in autocad, the computer aided drafting software that's widely used by architects and engineers. i have produced a couple small sets of drawings. i'm amused and endeared by autocad's paleolithic underpinning: the command line interface. most programs these days don't give you access to one of these. you have to use menus and toolbars. i actually like command line interfaces. if you know what you want and know how to get it, they're fast. plus they give your fingers more exercise.