Since I’ve been home by myself for a few days I’ve done a lot of reading. The one I’ll mention is Second Wave: Acorna’s Children by Anne McCaffery. I enjoyed her first series of these books the Acorna books that have some very good imagery. I keep trying to get James to read them because he keeps thinking of ideas and I keep saying these books have a lot of that kind of stuff, like plants that are conscious.
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Yesterday we had a message waiting for us when we got home. The owners accepted our bid so now we have to get a pre approved loan and wait for the owners to call saying the government approved the sale of these condos, ours is the 2b 2 1/2 bath w/ loft: http://gallerialiving.com/ws_floorplan01.html . This process is a little different than going through a realtor and buying a home with land. These are just being approved to sell and we went straight to the seller. Why pay the middle man?
Well I am rather excited. Yesterday James and I put an offer on a condo/townhouse. The sales rep said we’d hear back from the owners within seven days. Now we wait.
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I can never remember how to do loops in shell scripts, but since I learned today that Ruby supports the ` operator I will never need to 
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I’m making a whole bunch of buttons for an OSCommerce theme and I wanted to make a copy of my template for each button. A little experimentation in irb led me to:
`ls`.each {|item| `cp ../button_template.xcf #{item.gsub(/\.gif/, '.xcf')}`}
Hurray for lazy programers .
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