Elf Sternberg

Well, on the job search front today things were pretty slow. I had one interview, and that was it. It was a pretty good interview, I think; they're looking for a serious Pythonista with some heavy web development skills, but they also want those development skills to be skewed toward social media. It's a big shopping list; I meet a lot of their requirements, but not all of them. I do meet the main ones, though, and the others are minor: all libraries, even web APIs, are just libraries to be learned. Doing that is pretty easy.

Kouryou-chan, on the other hand, developed a rash this morning, so Omaha and I took her to the physician. She has fifth disease, a common viral skin infection that often hits kids at this age. The school was nonchalant about the whole thing; apparently, it goes around once a year or so, and this was that time. The disease gets its common name from being the fifth disease in some old classic textbook on childhood diseases. It has the official name of "Erythema infectiosum," which if you say it emphatically, sounds like something from a Harry Potter movie: "Erythema Infectiosum!".

It doesn't help that the name basically means "infectious rash."

I worked mostly on Omaha's development project. I'm getting a few good posts out of it: How to create a glowy logo like the ones used in Apple ads, how to create a cylical memo, and the Simplest Tabs In The Universe, among others. Oh, and always use a revision control system! Re-learning a lot of the WordPress API; haven't done much with it since the Tina Orwall campaign, and both by CSS and my GiMP-fu are stronger now.

We had leftovers for dinner, there were a ton of 'em. And then we went to the pool, swam for an hour, got exercise. And now we're home and getting ready for bed. Maybe I'll get some writing in. That would be fun.