Good morning! It is a sunny and warm Sunday morning in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Yesterday due to high temperature and humidity concerns, my wife and I decided to start lunch earlier than usual. We finished our mid morning cup of triple espresso around 11:00 AM.
My wife made some nachos. She used small tortilla chips, and a block of Colby-Jack cheese which she shredded in the Ninja blender. For the salsa she used one or two avocados, some jalapenos from a jar and some Pace picante medium strength sauce. The plain tortillas with the cheese were placed in a 350 F oven for about 20 minutes. That melted the cheese. Continue reading “Tree Preorder Traversal”
Finally summer 2020 has arrived. Today’s high is in the lower to mid 70s. Currently the sky is overcast. My wife and I prefer it sunny but the temperature is fine with me. My wife prefers hot and humid weather. Not everyone likes chocolate. We will probably keep the windows open all day. Living in Minnesota with long and cold winters, fresh air is always welcomed.
teens. We have traveled abroad on several occasions with and without family. We were going to chat last Sunday (Father’s Day) but due to our schedules we postponed it until Monday. We found out that both have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and are being treated as we speak. Their daughter, who lives with them, has not contracted the virus yet. They both looked tired so we limited our call to 20 minutes. Typically we go for a couple hours. Hopefully all will go well and they will have a short recovery! 
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Today is Saturday February 15, 2020 and the temperature is about 35 F which is a great improvement from yesterday. We woke up at -15 F which was exactly 50 degrees cooler. I am on the second block for the day. My wife and I already had our tea with lemon and she is getting in the shower. She will let me know when ready so I can shutdown my computer and start working on lunch. Hopefully I will be able to complete this post today; otherwise it will be ready tomorrow morning. 
Currently I am working on a 64-bit API for a storage server at work. The plan is to port a limited number of APIs in order to be able to call them directly from other applications / services without having to marshal such calls. I am trying to convert the data structures from 32 to 64 bits while keeping backwards compatibility. At some point in time we should be able to port with little additional effort the current storage server to 64-bits and still support client applications / servers running on 32-bits. 
I have been working and developing software on Linux, UNIX and Windows for a while. On the Microsoft platforms I started on MS DOS. Last week I was talking with a colleague and he mentioned that while still in BETA, Microsoft has something called Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. I do enjoy the simplicity and power of the Linux shells. I decided to give the Microsoft BETA software a run.