I’m still decomissioned. I can walk better, although now my hips (particularly on the right) are starting to hurt a little because I walk with a funny gait. I have now been inspected via X-ray and MRI and have been to see an orthopedic nurse practitioner. The result? I have a torn disk. It’s the [...]
My back is still mostly kaput. I can stand & walk (ok, ok, shuffle) for short amounts of time (i.e., < 30 minutes). I can sit up for a little longer than that, but after about an hour, it’s about time to lay flat again. I’m still doped up. I still can’t hardly move (and [...]
I went to a physical therapist today. He ran me through a number of motions, excercises, and devices intended to make my lower back feel better, but at least for the first visit, they made the injury more painful. I suppose one might texpect that. Anyway, this strain/bulging disk/torn ligament is excruciating. On a scale [...]
Well, yesterday morning, after spending many, many hours over the weekend lifting building supplies and getting the floor frame of my detached study built, I woke up feeling great. There was no soreness or anything, and I felt well-rested. I went about my normal morning routine. As I was nearing time to leave for work, [...]
After attending church on Sunday, I went back out to get a little more done on the study. I finished up the last two floor joists, but before I could start putting on the plywood flooring, I needed to round up some ground anchors and get the floor frame secured. I didn’t really understand why [...]
On Saturday, I finished up getting the concrete blocks leveled. That was quite hard work. The boards in the picture were only used for leveling purposes at this point (although they get used for their purpose soon). After getting the blocks level, I starting working on the floor frame. After getting the band joists assembled, [...]
After getting the materials I needed to get started, I just needed some time to work. I got my chance this weekend. Thursday was the first chance I had, and the first step was to get a foundation in place. Concrete was too expensive, and was probably overkill for this project anyway, so I settled [...]
I’m about to be kicked out of my study to make room for a new addition to our family. I still need a place to go, and we didn’t really want to buy house (not to mention that we don’t have the money for that anyway), so we decided that I would move my study [...]
I just discovered the POCO library. It’s pretty neat-looking: it has a number of components that provide functionality that goes beyond the standard C++ library, such as threading support, networking, XML reading/writing, etc. The cherry on top is that not only is it similar to boost in terms of functionality, it seems smaller, more portable, [...]
This article is a really great way to start understanding STL containers. It discusses the differences between a vector and a deque (a double-ended queue) (you’ll often see C++ rookies as “what’s the difference between vector and queue” or something like that, and the answer is usually “if you have to ask, just use vector”. [...]