Wednesday, January 22nd, 2003 |
4:26 pm
There is an absolutely stunning rainbow directly outside my window now. I hope that is a good omen. (Not that I am particularly superstitious or anything.)
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3:39 pm
Second day in a row of pouring rain, and here I am with errands I could be running.
Can't wait to get the money for an electric car.
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1:21 pm
I finally figured out what was wrong with that one mailbox.
Oh, my god. I am such a dork.
You Unix geeks will immediately appreciate the gravity of the situation when I tell you that, for weeks, a .qmail file of mine ended with > ./mbox instead of >> ./mbox .
For those of you who don't know any Unix, a quick lesson in the double-edged power of Unix commands. "> " means "write the output to the following file name". ">> " means "write the output to the following file name, but if the file already exists, tack it on to the end".
Get it? The latter one is correct. The former one, which I had directing my mail for weeks, told the system to overwrite my mailbox with every single new e-mail.
God, I am such a dork.
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2003 |
10:37 pm
After days of rearranging furniture in the living room, we finally seem to be settling into a new configuration. We dragged September's old stereo cabinet in from the garage, and I spent hours this evening tearing down the audiovisual entertainment gadgetry in my office and setting it up again in the stereo cabinet. It all came together pretty nicely. Now we just have to figure out where all of the videos are going to go.
I'm still highly paranoid that something is wrong with one of my e-mail addresses, as I seem to be missing important Debian-related e-mail. But I have yet to figure out a way to prove it's broken, let alone how it might be broken.
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Monday, January 20th, 2003 |
8:48 pm
I've started working on a Perl script to change information in MP3 files so that they can be put in "library" order—last name first, indefinite articles at the end, etc. Has this already been done in the Perl world, or even just the free-software world in general?
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8:09 pm
Correction: Eight miles of total biking today. The last three miles of it was 100% pedal power.
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4:13 pm
I went for a bike ride. My GPS receiver tells me I went five miles. Pretty good, considering I actually went part of the way without electrical assist (gasp!).
September tells me that she's read somewhere that exercise helps focus the mind in people with ADHD. While my ADHD status is more from a strong professional opinion rather than a clinical diagnosis, it seems like another good excuse to exercise more. I'm trying to prompt myself to exercise when I'm feeling lethargic, as a substitute for craving caffeine. (While I'm still nowhere near the level of caffeine obssession I used to have in my heyday of pounding a half-gallon of cola a day, I have slipped a few times recently.)
I saw something sad on my bike ride. I'm still waffling about whether to write about it.
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Sunday, January 19th, 2003 |
1:17 am
Well, I guess I've burned my bridges as far as helping LJ support is concerned.
But consarn it, anyway. I've had zero (0) approved answers out of however many (20?) ever since the support screening system started, and they expect me to be polite about it?
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Saturday, January 18th, 2003 |
11:01 pm
Blue funk night.
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Friday, January 17th, 2003 |
12:04 am
Can someone explain to me how Sierra Mist stays on the market? It's kind of like the Royal Crown Cola of the lemon-lime soda world, except that RC actually tastes good.
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Thursday, January 16th, 2003 |
10:44 pm
September took me out to the icon Grill for our anniversary. We even saved enough room for the monstrous sundae. We were also astonished to see almostthere there, who was likewise astonished since she was coincidentally seated with her back to us at the next table with friends of hers. All the more amusing because when our sundae came, they were all ogling that and paying no mind to the two of us to whom it was being served. Only a few minutes later did a.t. recognize us.
( A little more Palm-programming geekness... )
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9:32 am
Three years of bliss began on this day in 2000.
I love you, honey!
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7:28 am
( Geeky Palm-ness of the day... )
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2003 |
5:21 pm
For some reason, I'm having a much easier time accessing LiveJournal on my PDA when I'm connected via my cell phone than when connected via the wireless card. (Guess which I'm using now?)
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Monday, January 13th, 2003 |
6:47 pm
To the unknown person who left five dollars in the change tray at the self-checkout line at QFC: Sorry, but I need it more than you do.
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Sunday, January 12th, 2003 |
12:00 am
September, her brother, le_merle, and I all went out for Thai food and went to see The Two Towers again last night.
Which means I had some yummy leftovers for tonight.
I'm still trying to find little bits of work to do for Debian, despite the fact that nobody's answered my question on the debian-mentors list about how I get back in as a developer. The latest thing I've gotten sucked into is—yes, you guessed it—translating Web pages into Esperanto. (I mean, come on, only the front page has been translated so far; that's sad.)
I don't remember how much I wrote about my latest stumble with the state employment services department. Basically, to stay current, I filed a claim on-line for the week of Christmas, and even though I truthfully told them that I was out of town and hadn't looked for work, they "conditionally" sent me an unemployment check, anyway. So I had to explain things further via snail mail. I got the response back today that I more or less expected to get. While they don't consider my claim to have been fraudulent (golly, thanks), they want me to pay them back for what they paid out of my benefits account. And that includes the extra $50 for federal withholding that I have them take out of each payment. Ah, but no worries, I'm sure I'll be able to get it back in my refund for my 2003 taxes a year from now. Mutter grumble.
GnuCash is saving my ass right now. Very hard for me to overspend when I can see exactly how much I'm spending.
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Saturday, January 11th, 2003 |
2:31 am
So, a bunch of stuff happened...
And then a bunch of other stuff happened...
And then... yeah.
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Thursday, January 9th, 2003 |
10:09 pm
When the computer is doing almost nothing I want it to do, I think it must be time for bed.
But I'm probably not going anyway.
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4:19 pm
I got some business-card-sized CD-Rs today. Off on another wild geek chase. I got to thinking about them a few weeks ago when I first heard of the LNX-BBC project, which maintains a bootable version of Linux designed to fit in the limited space of such disk/cards. What really prompted me to go looking for them, though, was my wish to carry personal encryption keys on my own person the way I carry my real keys; at first I thought of those new mini USB memory cards, but realized that CD-R business cards would a cheaper way to go about it.
Yeah, they're cheaper, but I have to pull everything together that I want to put on a disk before I burn one. Since I'm chomping at the bit to try one out, I've gone back to LNX-BBC and am downloading a copy of that to burn.
P.S. My CD-RW drive doesn't seem to like the disk cards. Maybe it's one more reason to suspect my drive is dying. Or maybe CompUSA disks are just crap. I think both are equally likely.
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8:04 am
Now I'm trying to get back into the Debian development game by packaging up the Active Spam Killer, a package requested by someone else. We'll see how things go. The sticking point is that my original Debian account's password seems to have expired, and I don't have my old PGP key anymore.
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