Monday:
I'm taking an educational day on Monday so that I can check out Windows Vista and report back all my thoughts on the latest OS to come out of Redmond. It should be a really fun day. I've got the OS installed (did it last night), but I'm refusing to play around with it until tomorrow so that I can write my thoughts up as I experience them.
I also have to bring Pixel into the vet tomorrow over my lunch. Time for her check-up!
I'm going to be calling my driveway contractor to find out why I still don't have a driveway. I'm quite close to sticking my foot up his ass since I want to get into my house and there's only a handful of things that are holding me back -- him being the worst.
Tuesday:
My stove comes in at some point on Tue, so I have to be out at the house to pick it up. Aside from that, just work work work. I'll probably start doing some more work on the Win32 linker. Basically, rewrite up the thoughts that I lost when I reformatted them into oblivion. :-P
My carpet re-order should be coming in either today or tomorrow, so hopefully that gets installed rather quickly.
Wednesday:
I'm having the mechanical energy guys come out to hook up the stove, get the power vent onto my water heater, and just do general heating stuff like that. If the carpet came in on Tue, then today's the day it'd get installed.
The rest of the days are sort of up in the air since a lot depends on what happens in the first few days. I know I'm going to be putting in more hours out at the house doing odd-jobs like cleaning, installing more trimwork and things like that. Here's the list of things that are holding me up from having a final walk-through and moving in:
- Driveway
- Final grade on the lawn
- Water heater power vent
- No stove
- Carpet
AFAIK, that's the entire list of things I'm waiting on. And as you can see, some of that stuff is already scheduled to be done. Well, all of it is, technically, but I have to find out why it's not being done as fast as I'd like it to be.
Once I have that list done, I can contact the inspector and have him come give me a walk-through. Once he says the house is fit for people to live in it, then I have to contact my mortgage broker to have them send an estimator out and I can close on the house. Wahoo!
Looking forward to the detailed info about Vista. Just out of curiosity, I'll be wondering how RB apps run (and look) in the new OS as well.
PS-- why do comments require moderation? Comment spam?
I'm sure I'll blog all about the experience. :-)
As for comment moderation -- some comments are moderated, others aren't. If you register on the site, then you never have to bother with moderation. Otherwise, there are some heuristics the blog software uses to determine whether you get moderated or not (such as if you post from the same IP address and the IP's had a comment accepted before, then it ususally goes thru).
I have been running Vista on a Virtual PC image... I fed it 512mb of RAM and it was choking every once in a while... also, to get the maximum benefits of Aero , a 3D chip is necessary.
I have no want to go as throughough as I expect you to... right now. There are a lot of changes under the hood and with the release of a new Windows API/SDK .. it will be quite an interesting OS, IMHO
Are you allowed to move in before the Bank says it is OK?
Here's an entirely off-topic question, but it's been bothering me as I use RB just now.
When you need to look something up in the LR, how do you usually get the focus to the Location Bar there? At least on Mac OS X, there is absolutely no way to get the focus there unless you click on it-- which is intensely annoying, since you almost always go to the LR straight from code, meaning your hands are on the keyboard, not the mouse, and you just want quick info on a certain item. You've blogged before about programs lacking accelerator keys on Windows; this is at least as bad. ;)
I know there are feedback reports about the lack of Cmd/Ctrl-L for a jump to location bar, and dkqjzcef takes it a step further by requesting automatic focus there (a good idea). It would be soooo easy. Rant ended....
@Phil -- Once the inspector says it's OK, then I'm allowed to move in. The bank's already said OK by letting me get the construction loan.
@Adam -- You can hit Cmd+? to get to the LR (or even the Help key I think), but I don't think it automatically jumps to an entry for what's under the cursor. And I could have sworn there was a command key to get to the location field -- On Windows, Ctrl+L does it.
Well, I know about Cmd-? to get the the LR, but confoundingly Cmd-L doesn't work to get to the the location bar in 2005r2 Mac. "Go to Location" in the History menu is dimmed. Can you take a look at this so us Mac users aren't left out in the cold? I'll file a report, anyway... Thanks.
Yeah, definately file a report and it'll get looked into. There's no reason for that menu item to be dimmed on the Mac that I can think of.