Yesterday was a harder day. The programming details were less fun, more picky. A small victory was that I got the toy app I’ve been working on loaded onto my iPhone for the first time. That’s a cool feeling. On the other hand, the program crashed for the first time yesterday as well (map views are tricky, it turns out).
I worked something like 14 hours on Tuesday (on the joy of progress and the adrenaline of being able to work uninterrupted), and yesterday that caught up with me. I went out in the evening to walk around the Carytown neighborhood, which is a cool place. Had a nice conversation with a Thai bartender who’s been here 15 years after three in Northern Virginia. He likes it better here, and I understand why. Feels more like cities in the Midwest: a little slower, more manageable, less traffic-ridden.
On the whole, it was a messier day, and I’m glad to be working at a place that acknowledges the messiness of our faith so well. I loved this picture of the Wednesday morning mass vessels in the community dishwasher. You could do worse for an icon of this place.