Back from Kauai. Maybe some pictures tomorrow.

Lots of stuff to catch up on, so I’ll skip the niceties.

• The changes in the Rails subversion repository have been coming fast and furious for the last couple of days. I usually like running on the edge, but today I had to stay locked to a previous version (3725) in order to keep working. Is this the final push to 1.1?
• I ordered my new MacBook Pro yesterday. Dual core, 2GB of RAM, and the 100GB 7200rpm drive. Feel it.
• Why the lucky stiff’s spectacular example of mentat logic has been integrated into Rails. I’m using it to do full renders in the new RJS templates:

  p = Proc.new { render_as_string :template => "/users/details" }; page.replace_html "user_details", p.bind(@controller).call

• Last thursday I decided to try a vegatarian diet for 30 days. If it works out, I’ll stick with it for a while longer. If I don’t like it I’ll switch back. Tomorrow will be a full week and I’m very surprised that it’s been so easy to switch. I’ve considered making the switch for several months now, but always thought that I’d have a really hard time find things to eat. Not so, and I’ve actually lost 6 pounds this week to boot. This is very surprising because I’ve been unable to lose more than 2 pounds for over a year now, no matter what I’ve tried. I’m at 224 lbs today. My goal is 200 and then I’ll re-evaluate.
• I’m no longer training for the San Diego marathon. I’m just not going to be able to make it at the pace my training is progressing. I’m still running 4 days a week and am planning on running the Portland Marathon in October.
• Did I mention that I’ll be in Chicago for RailsConf 2006 in June?
• I’ll also be at OSCON again this year, but probably only for the one day Ruby track. It’s too damn expensive to go for the whole thing.

Railsconf 2006 was announced today. I’m signing up and booking everything for the trip tomorrow.

Update: I couldn’t bear the thought of not being one of the first 100 to sign up. I’m booked. Now… I want to be assured that _why is going to put on one of his audio/visual extravaganza’s.

We spent this past weekend at the FarmBoyz‘ kick-ass Labor Day Party. I re-uploaded all my pictures tonight, cuz I fucked up the first batch yesterday. There are also a ton more photos from everybody else that went.

Back from vacation in New York. We had a great time and did a lot of cool stuff. Walked our asses off too. New York is a great city, with a lot energy and good things going on, but it’s nice to be back in Portland where things are a bit less frenetic.