Working from Home - Day 28

The majority of my current project is coding regular expressions to extract text elements from email. There is a fair amount of boiler plate stuff to wire up each format, but the hard stuff is the pattern matching. I have a few years of Perl experience, and plenty of shell development, so this is not my first time applying regex where there is probably a more elegant solution. Thing is, I really enjoy a pattern matching problems. I got hooked in my automata class in college.

Remote work really does allow me to have more flexibility in my day. I have one son that sees a behavioral physiologist every three weeks. I would normally spend at least two, and a half hours to take him to the appointment and return him to school or home. I can add hours to my work days through the week to compensate, but all I have to do now is set up the call and participate in a ten-minute review at the end of the session.

I also enjoy being able to hang laundry out each hour through the day. I try to take a five-minute break every hour. The FitBit reminds me. Hanging the laundry is a perfect fit.

Today was the pick of the week, so I set some strip steaks down to thaw yesterday. I grilled them tonight. I tossed the potatoes in the oven and drove into town to get some cole slaw and beer. I did have to use the gas grill to compensate for the beer run, but it is almost as good as charcoal. I do need to clean the gas grill, the grease fires are getting worse.