I went all crazy-go-nuts on the pocket schedule, trying to find a tasteful way to break it into usable chunks. They’ve transposed the axes of the grid, so that each page is a full day and the location/track spans pages. It’s a hell of an improvement over last year, but still a thick wad of [...]
Woke. Packed. Showered. Went to bank. Went to lunch. Left town with Aowyn. Met Mustard and Shaft in La Vergne, transferred belongings to Shaft’s vehicle, continued to Atlanta. Annoyed Mustard mercilessly for most of the trip. Arrived; Shaft dropped me off at the Marriott. Located Beth, obtained key, settled into room. Went to get badge [...]
Too much Saturday. Can’t now. Been wrestling a funk since ~9pm. Can’t get Donna out of my head. Well, not Donna, but Donna′, I guess. (I recognize that this is repetitive and boring. Enough so that I interrupted this post for 20 minutes to de-fur my keyboard.) If it doesn’t make enough sense for me [...]
Two tools I’ve finally gotten around to learning about: Synergy Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s). Synergy’s a hoot. [...]
(Posted in effort to keep things moving.) Things picked up last Thursday. Toward the end of the day I solved a problem that had been bugging my boss and one of the PMs for a while. Felt good. Friday was alright. Was still sort of high from Thursday’s success. Saturday went to a party at [...]
I picked up a printer for my dad a couple weeks ago. Last week I finally got around to getting it set up on my MythTV box to be sure I could do it before taking it all the way out to his place. As part of this procedure, I reset the root password to [...]
I don’t think I’m going to regret this, but it’s still gonna hurt. A close relative of Sue’s is in a hospital up here. Serious, but not life-threatening. She’s pretty upset, so I said she could stay at my place between visiting hours. I’m on the couch. It’s a good couch. This is really rough [...]
Got stuck in a novella past my prime “falling-asleep” time–too long to finish and drift off, too short to just put down and finish tomorrow. Now I’m just drifting. Rediscovered a link to The Nietzsche Family Circus. Probably not the best kind of thing to help me sleep. Shada often looks cranky. She’s sitting curled [...]
I need to get over it and learn to adapt. I had a good run of accepting change, but I’ve fallen into a rut again. I notice it mostly at work; I’d rather read about perl minutiae that I’ll probably never use than have to learn something new. I want to specialize, to find a [...]
I bought a MacBook Pro. I’ve been thinking about it off and on for the last couple years. (Oh, crap. Two years? Really?) It’s a tax-free weekend in Tennessee for things that could be considered “school supplies,” and MacAuthority was running a sale to coincide with it… it’s still a lot more than I’ve ever [...]