Coker Coder
May. 25th, 2004 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringSpent most of the day programming. Oddly enough, I meant to do something simple - work out weather changes each day, which is a matter of rolling a cyberdie and modifying it a bit if the weather has been clear or stormy the previous day, But I didn't get around to that. It was all framework stuff - setting up a mechanism to change the game number and to display it and to lock and unlock the comboBox. Riffling through four manuals before I got it working the way I like. So much fun just mucking about and tweaking a form - run it up, play with it, see something that isn't working quite right, twiddle with it until it's all schmick.
A bit of trading. Took a bit of profit form Santos and bought a bit more Amcor. Santos peaked and headed down, Amcor stayed much the same, but will probably go up. We'll see - getting cheesed off at seeing stocks shoot up, basking in the apparent wealth and then having them decline again. Sell 'em when there's a decent profit, that's the go. Pick 'em up again when they bounce off the bottom.
Anyway, that's the theory.
Good day Bookcrossing. Snarfed up the number of a book left in the Civic Library. Left it in the wild and released anothery - A Good House by Bonnie Burnard all the way from Canada. Got a journal entry on the release in the airport lounge from Sunday - the attendant who cleaned it up joined up and journalled it. And Jodie Minus, who wrote the article used in the high school English test contacted me and gave me a bit of background info. Contacted Uppsala's top Bookcrosser, who may or may not be able to get a book to Kerri for me to show around Canberra.
Sketched in my writing and travel plans for the next year - ferociously ambitious, but we'll see. Arranged for accomodation on the Gold Coast in July.
Got a want on ABEbooks for my grandfather's regimental history, copies of which are worth up to $US1000. Found one this morning for $US125. Snapped up - will see if it arrives. The last time I tried this the bookseller cancelled when they worked out their hideous mistake. Which reminds me. I really must put up my leather-bound copy of Leni Reifenstahl's Olympia with the gorgeous photography. With the Olympics coming up the demand should increase.
Got a ton of books to get off tomorrow. Must tear myself away from programming and attend to business. This Livejournal thing is a fiendish distraction.
A bit of trading. Took a bit of profit form Santos and bought a bit more Amcor. Santos peaked and headed down, Amcor stayed much the same, but will probably go up. We'll see - getting cheesed off at seeing stocks shoot up, basking in the apparent wealth and then having them decline again. Sell 'em when there's a decent profit, that's the go. Pick 'em up again when they bounce off the bottom.
Anyway, that's the theory.
Good day Bookcrossing. Snarfed up the number of a book left in the Civic Library. Left it in the wild and released anothery - A Good House by Bonnie Burnard all the way from Canada. Got a journal entry on the release in the airport lounge from Sunday - the attendant who cleaned it up joined up and journalled it. And Jodie Minus, who wrote the article used in the high school English test contacted me and gave me a bit of background info. Contacted Uppsala's top Bookcrosser, who may or may not be able to get a book to Kerri for me to show around Canberra.
Sketched in my writing and travel plans for the next year - ferociously ambitious, but we'll see. Arranged for accomodation on the Gold Coast in July.
Got a want on ABEbooks for my grandfather's regimental history, copies of which are worth up to $US1000. Found one this morning for $US125. Snapped up - will see if it arrives. The last time I tried this the bookseller cancelled when they worked out their hideous mistake. Which reminds me. I really must put up my leather-bound copy of Leni Reifenstahl's Olympia with the gorgeous photography. With the Olympics coming up the demand should increase.
Got a ton of books to get off tomorrow. Must tear myself away from programming and attend to business. This Livejournal thing is a fiendish distraction.
