Slow programming

About 9 last night I suffered from a sneezing attack, which revisited me about 4:30 this morning. I'm thinking about making a bike trip tomorrow, provided that a cold doesn't haunt me all day today. It's going to be frigid in the morning, but there shouldn't be any precipitation.

Yesterday was kind of a wash. I went shopping, cooked dinner, watched some Jojo, studied Arabic, and did a good bit of programming, but I feel like that only accounts for about six hours. I spent another two or so working on my newly acquired Rubik's cube, managing to solve it three more times, the last time in less than fifteen minutes. Even though that time was not too long, I was seeing and thinking about the Rubik's cube as I went to sleep last night.

I actually ended up playing a video game (Streets of Rogue) for about three hours, which allowed me to beat it for the first time. It's much more fun in a social setting, and I don't think I can really lose myself to it for days, but I have put in almost forty hours since I bought it. Hopefully it won't draw me in again though--I no longer have the excuse that I haven't beaten it yet. There is still quite a bit of mysterious time to account for in my day. Maybe I need to use a time tracker.

For dinner I tried to make fish curry. I used cod, which was the only fish that looked mostly boneless and not too expensive. I think it worked quite well, but the curry itself was a different matter. First, the tomatoes I used were Del Monte, but they had an unpleasant flour-like flavor. I've noticed it before, but I thought it was from a different brand of tomatoes, so I guess now I need to just remember not to buy canned tomatoes. I also added too much yuzu, i.e. citrus flavor. The sauce was a bit too sour and fruity. Then to fix this I decided that adding mustard would be a good idea. It wasn't. So I've got two more meals of peculiar fish curry. I would like to make a decent fish curry, but next time I'll try following the recipe.

In programming I ran into several minor obstacles which slowed me down but didn't stop me completely. I designed the browser view, and then redesigned it when I decided to use a tree instead of a list to browse the texts. I also created the ReviewManager class and nailed down a lot of its functionality, although I didn't write any methods beyond getters. When I write what I accomplished it's hard to believe that I spent three hours, but I'm pretty sure that time is close to accurate. I need to write or rewrite a to-do list for the program--maybe it would help speed things up.