This past weekend I’ve been doing a lot of hacking on the Dashboard, including a marathon session at Nat’s last night with him and Alex. It started off pretty well, the architecture is decent — although I know that we’ll have to throw it away — but I got bogged down in some details. That I was pretty tired along with the fact that I hadn’t really gotten a good handle on the problem (and thus how to solve it) was very frustrating and ended up being about two hours of wasted time. When I finally did get it checked in, Nat and I debugged it on his machine and it seems to do fairly well now, although there are definitely some issues.
Skipping back, I had lunch with Nat and Jimmy and Nelson yesterday and we chatted a bit about Dashboard stuff. Nat wanted to go to Pamplona so we went and got me a bike.
![[A photo by Joe Shaw]](http://joeshaw.org/images/bike.jpg)
my new bike
I haven’t had a bike in something like 10 years, so it took some getting used to, but it’s true what they say: you pick it right back up, it’s just like riding a bike.
We biked from thed bike shop (on Beacon between St. Mary’s and Kenmore Sq.) to Harvard Sq. and had coffee. That ride had a nice, satisfying burn. A few hours later be biked to Nat’s house. That was murder, especially his street. I’m sure the 95° heat didn’t help, but I was still sweating well after I had gotten to Nat’s and taken a nice cool shower. I’m gonna be so buff or die from dehydration/heat stroke/heart explosion.
The 4th was nice. I hung out and hacked most of the morning and then helped Sam get supplies for his get together. We got way too much food, and his management company only gave 24 hours notice that tennants can’t grill on the roof, so that was a bummer. Nice view of the fireworks, though.