I had a hard day...

I earned a bad mommy award today. I don' t want to talk about it (or admit what happened), but at least my kids still love me...I think.

Oh well, tomorrow is a new year. Maybe I'll screw up less then.

A glimpse of normalcy...

We had a regular old day today. We did normal Saturday lazy things and then had dinner with family..out! Other than the overabundance of laundry, things are settling. I'm not getting the continuous sleep I so crave and deserve, but I'm functioning at a pretty normal level. I keep wondering when my 6 weeks will be up so I can get to the gym and start losing these inches. I only have 7 baby pounds left (from this baby - I've got 50 from 2 prior pregnancies), but plenty of inches and flaps and pudges to readjust. Perhaps Robert will trade me, pound for pound...he'll gain it and I'll lose it. I'd never wish this belly flab on him though.

6 hours!

Woohoo! Another 6 hour stretch between feedings last night! That means I get about 5 hours sleep, by the time he eats, gets changed and in bed and I get myself in bed.

I think I know why I feel more sleep deprived this time than I did when William was born. Mary was still napping twice a day (2 hours each) when William came along and I was sleeping when she did. Now, I've got two running around wanting attention and only one nap, which Robert usually interrupts with a feeding.

I saw Baby Kaetlyn last night and she sure is tiny. Lots of hair on that tiny head. Can't wait till the family isn't sick and I can hold her.

What a month!

Having a newborn and 2 toddlers is definitely an adventure. I know I wasn't this sleep deprived when Mary was born and I don't remember feeling this tired when William was born, though I know he was waking about as often as Robert is. Perhaps the holiday rush is adding to the exhaustion. I'm happy to be at home and not have any plans today at all. I think it's nap time on the couch!

James Brown is Dead. I really do love his music...I can only imagine he's looking up at us right now and gettin' funky.

I guess L.A. Style finally got the last laugh...


"I'm just concerned 'cause there's nothing wrong." An interview with JB while he was high on something...not a shining moment, but funny to watch.

Nerd alert! I wrote this bash shell script today to update permissions in our existing Aperture library. It took about 20 minutes to run over a 100GB library (~117,000 files). Had I setup permissions properly when I created the library this wouldn't have been an issue, but doing it after the fact required me to iterate through all the files and update the permissions allowing both Lisa and me to modify them. ACLs are validated first, so the POSIX permissions (owner, group, other type) are ignored for users with explicit allow/deny access control entries (ACEs).

We first noticed the problem when Lisa opened Aperture and couldn't import pictures into our (supposedly) shared library. I then noticed that the thumbnails were being re-generated over and over...almost like they weren't being saved to disk. These two things led me to permissions which led me to enabling ACLs and writing this script. It seems so obvious and simple now, but my lack of Mac OS X knowledge made this a slow process.

Doug

A special thanks to SubEthaEdit for the auto-HTML-coloring of my script for me!

#!/bin/bash
# A script to set ACL permissions recursively
# Created by Doug Clark on Dec 23, 2006 
# for the purpose of setting up the shared aperture library 

# change dirs if non-empty param
if [ -n "${1}" ] 
then
    cd $1
fi

echo WARNING: This script will recursively modify all ACLs in the path $PWD
echo Please verify this is correct.  
echo Press Ctrl-C to abort, enter key to continue.
read

# set the delim to new line, otherwise filenames with 
# spaces would cause a problem
IFS=$'\n'
for file in `find $PWD`
do
    echo Updating \"${file}\"
    chmod +a "lisa allow list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,file_inherit,directory_inherit" $file
    chmod +a "doug allow list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,file_inherit,directory_inherit" $file    
done

It's been a week and a half since Robert was born and it's almost time to go back to work!  Sadly I haven't been productive at all.

It's been a good week, unfortunately Lisa hasn't gotten as much sleep as I have.  Even worse is that I don't feel rested...

Blogging from dashboard

Google has released a widget that lets you blog from your dashboard without having to go through the blogger website.  I imagine this will increase the amount of posting I do.  Maybe.

Kolb wants me to post more. It's not likely to happen.

What's new? I recently got a new computer...it's a Mac, don't tell my brother. Tomorrow we're having a baby...a boy who is currently nameless. The children call him "baby boy", that might be awkward later in life, but I'm sure it'll be unique.

I'm posting at work because I'm counting the minutes until I get to leave for my "vacation".

Doug