Mother's Day this morning -- our first with a new baby. Amita June and I got up early to make waffles for Mama to say thanks for the great year she's done so far. On top of MD, Maj is also feeling ill, and we're off for a 6-hour drive to Toronto this afternoon. But sleeping late and breakfast in bed seem to have done her some good -- at least I hope so!
Today is the day of Carp (carpe) on the French Revolutionary Calendar. Kind of a good day -- carp are a good honest fish, and in their itty-bitty goldfish form they've been friends to millions of people. Less demanding than dogs, less finicky than cats. There's been a Carp Camp at Burning Man for years, with big flowing wind socks in the shapes of koi. A nice tribute in a place that probably hasn't seen a lot of carp for a few tens of millions of years. I guess you have to take what you can get -- carpe diem and all that.
Site changes
I did a pretty sweeping change to the WiLiKi software running on this site so that the URL-creation code all goes through a couple of methods of the main wiki class. This makes sure that virtual paths get used everywhere, or pathinfo urls, or whatever. It seems to be working OK right now.
I also changed it so that spaces in URLs are replaced with underscores (or a configurable character). I'm also thinking of doing dashes, or pluses... not sure yet. Underscores just look like spaces to me.
In Toronto
Well, we made it... barely. We left Montreal just after lunch -- just the right time for Amita to take a nap -- and called all the Moms we knew before we got off The Island. But the baby didn't feel like sleeping, and got into a real crying jag for km and km and km. We stopped several times for 30-45 minutes at a time, walking and nursing and changing and such, and she never got any good sleep -- at all! We were 3 hours late for our dinner date (with pal Lee, who moved from Montreal to TO last fall, to our chagrin), and had to cancel. Didn't get in to the hotel until 10:00PM -- so about 4 hours later than we expected to be. Sad! And the baby's still upset. But we're better off now than on the road.