We’re halfway through the Day of Unbelievable Fun!
This morning was spent at Ontario Place, where I learned a valuable lesson. I am not hydrodynamic. There’s this water park, see, and it’s got this ride called the Hydrofuge. From the promotional copy: “Riders shoot down a tube on a thin sheet of water reaching speeds of up to 50 kph, then swirl around in a gigantic bowl and plunge into a six foot deep landing pool“. Yeah, it’s just like a toilet bowl. I hear Canada’s Wonderland has a ride just like this, except on theirs you get to sit on a raft. Why the raft? Oh, probably to prevent your skin from hitting every seam in the slide as you shoot down. Ow. I may have hit 50 “kph”, but not for long. In the end I just kinda fell diagonally out of the slide into the pool below. Gracefully, of course.
So the good news is, I won’t have to worry about being enlisted into the war on terror as a submarine. They won’t rig me for silent running. I think that’s a good thing. All the other rides are good, by the way.
Tonight will be spent at the CNE, which is right across the street from Ontario Place, but we decided to go home in between venues. That’s the great thing about living downtown.
Yesterday wasn’t as fun, but it was productive. We finally got AngelA’s site looking non-bleak with the addition of a few background images. I also did something I should have done a long time ago and made a development copy of VP. Yep, all this time I’ve been making most of my changes live in production. It’s amazing how much faster I can work now. Why, if I’m not careful, I might deliver actual functionality to the system! I’m halfway through the dreaded CSS conversion, and once that’s done I’ll get to make the juvenile filter actually work the way I want it to. Damned exciting stuff, especially if you don’t read the papers.
Gotta go eat a solid meal now – going on some nasty rides soon!