I know, meara! Also Jess and Polgara? Such good company.. I've only ever done purple before, and the blue part washed out fairly quickly leaving more or less pink, but I suspect blue will accentuate my eyes, which has to be good.

I think I'm still a little young for traditional blue hair? Although maybe not.

I wonder if there is a word for the kind of geek I am right now. I have an Office 365 subscription since my company's recent software upgrade, so I am sitting here on Friday night playing with Excel on my iPad to see if I can optimize my purchasing within this pedometer game on my phone that I am into.

I'm on team purple!!!

I took a 3 hour nap earlier, during the work day! Staying late every night all week for convention watching wore me out.

Taking a break from hair color, but love seeing the various fun colors. Some day, maybe when I have more gray.

I am sitting here on Friday night playing with Excel on my iPad

I'm getting back to work to write encryption code for analytics reports. I lost an hour today getting my password reset after it expired despite our webmail telling me I had eight days left to change it. It's very confusing to the IT help desk because not many people at Lowe's know that our office exists and we have a weird network configuration.

Course it would be easy if we could create the file first and then encrypt it, but that isn't the right way to do it, so it's time for bouncycastle (that's a Java encryption library).

"It's time for bouncycastle" probably sounds more fun than the reality.

playing with Excel on my iPad

I don't remember if linked this here before or not. Stand-up comedy routine about spreadsheets, on Youtube: [link]

Tep, if you want to engage in a very minor way, you can just say "I'm glad to hear your voting for her. I think she will make an excellent president" and leave it at that.

Or, you know, not responding at all is a perfectly cromulent course of action.

Yeah, bouncycastle sounds like fun but the reality is like:

try (InputStream is = PGPUtil.getDecoderStream(new FileInputStream(keyFile))) {
  PGPPublicKeyRingCollection keyRingCollection = new PGPPublicKeyRingCollection(is);
  Iterator rings = keyRingCollection.getKeyRings();
  List list = new ArrayList();
  while (rings.hasNext()) {
    Iterator keys = ((PGPPublicKeyRing)rings.next()).getPublicKeys();
    while (keys.hasNext()) {
      PGPPublicKey key = (PGPPublicKey)keys.next();
      if (key.isEncryptionKey()) {
        list.add(key);
      }
    }
  }
  return list.stream();
  } catch (Exception e) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Cannot load public key from: " + keyFile, e);
  }

I get an idea. Probably not quite the right one.

Thank you for that, dcp, that was delightful.