Yesterday, I finished coding version 3 of the RxReminder task scheduler interface (one for Vista, one for XP). Last night it underwent its first sea trial, and it hit a sandbar.
I puzzled out what had gone wrong. There was no bug in the task scheduler interface; it worked as designed. There was no bug in RxReminder; it worked as designed. The new task scheduler interface has a different behavior than the old interface, a behavior that RxReminder was not designed to accommodate. Adding about 4 or 5 lines of code to RxReminder should take care of that. I'll test it again overnight.
I was outside a little while ago when I heard a lot of barking and looked up in time to see a gray schnauzer go whizzing past, chasing a black cat and trailing a pink leash. It was running faster than I could, but not faster than Carey - my neighbor two doors down the street. She caught it, so I said congrats on being in good shape - a hundred fifty foot sprint and she's not even breathing hard. So she stopped, we talked, and I got introduced to her two dogs, her "children" Zack and Zoe. They're siblings. Both are barkers, but Zack soon showed he was a lover, not a biter. He just wanted to lick my face and hands. Zoe, however, has pretensions of being a pit bull. She's definitely a biter. I wish Carey luck and patience while training those dogs. Sometimes you can get a dog and end up being lucky; you get a dog that requires little or no training. Some dogs just have very good natures. Other times you get a dog that has a nervous disposition, or neurotic, or irritable, or whatever. And then you have to train your dog. You'll be happier, and the dog will be happier. Too many people don't want to bother.
I wish I had thought to take out my cel phone and get a picture of Zack and Zoe. I'll try to remember to do that next time I meet them.
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