journaling: enabled

Well, I spent most of the day up visiting my parents. This morning I did some tidying up in the house … not a lot mind you but enough to make me comfortable leaving it. I also had fun writing out checks for bills (bleh!). I left around 11am. Got up there in time to have ham and cauliflower chowder (yummy!) for lunch. I decided to give my parents my Airport wireless base station as a replacement “dialup server”. It appears to work quite well and I hope is more reliable than the Linux server I had set up for them. I brought the Linux server home with me and will probably use it for testing or something. At the very least, I could use something to take over handling email and such if I need to rebuild my primary server again, which is looking somewhat likely at the moment given the compiler issues I’ve been having.
Anyway … ’nuff on that. I enjoyed seeing my parents again. They seem to be doing well. One thing I don’t like about being up there in the winter is that I inevitably come back smelling like wood smoke because that’s what they use to heat with. I did get my hair cut though so I no longer look quite so odd when I take off my hat. Once I shave, I should actually look presentable again.
I wish I had picked up some more popcorn. I’d like to make some for snacking on during the “Great American Race” … aka the Daytona 500.