There are no pics this week.
Today it’s precipitating lightly with temperatures hovering right at 32. That makes it a nice day for staying inside and doing computer stuff. I had plenty of it to do. Our neighborhood has 5 condos with 5 boards, all independent of each other. Each board sends a representative to the SOCA board, which takes care of issues that affect all condos. Our website is for SOCA. But a lot of the things we do are organized by one of the condo boards or by extra-active residents. Many people can post to the website, but each is assigned to their specific area. We fence the website off to make sure all these people posting on the website obey the rules.
I have used two plugins (programs) to build fences and enforce rules. One is called AAM, the other UAM. I can use either of these, but not both. I started out with UAM. Then I found AAM, which works better. Then AAM developed some bugs and I switched back to UAM. Then UAM developed some bugs. So I spent quite a bit of time this week changing back to AAM. It doesn’t take all that long to do the work, but the settings are quite detailed. It takes me a long time to figure out what settings work best. I’ll bet I’ve spent 30 hours on this within the last week. I finished it this morning, and this time I wrote a document to help me remember what I did, and why. Here’s hoping this issue is settled for a while.
Monday was another lousy weather day. Danita and I went to see Hidden Figures. I recommend it highly. The movie used some dramatic techniques to create a good story. But they worked very hard to get the facts right, down to the smallest possible detail. In many cases, they used the exact dialog used by the people working on the space program. They even asked for historical pictures of the parking lot at Langley. Here’s an example of details they got right. There is a scene where somebody is driving a 1956 (more or less) Chevy. American cars back then had very loose steering. The steering wheel was big, and the driver had to constantly turn it back and forth, making small corrections to keep the car in the lane. This was the first movie I saw where I actually believed the actor was driving the car. Of course, not everybody is a fact freak. It’s good history you probably don’t know but definitely should. It’s a great story, and it’s well told. (And the facts are right.)
Our only other major activity was a neighborhood party last night.
I hope this finds everybody doing well.