No subject. Just ramblings. First of all, I would like to say it sucks to see someone you love in pain and know you can’t do anything to help. liz4jc4ever has been having mouth pain, probably due to dental work she had done last week. She tried getting hold of the dentist today … called 3 times to try and set something up and they never called her back. Kinda makes me wonder if I really want to go there.
Had a “nice” little “surprise” this morning at work… one of my workers decided to quit. This wasn’t really a surprise to me since I knew he had a heavy course load.
Tonight a friend came over and helped me clean my truck’s air filter. I guess it turned out I really didn’t need his help getting the filter out, but it’s nice when someone else who has experience can show you what you don’t need to worry about when taking something apart. In case you’re wondering, my truck has a K&N high-performance air filter in it that doesn’t need replacing. In this case, it did need a good cleaning and oiling. Hopefully this will improve things … not that it was running all that bad before all this.
It’s a beautiful night outside. Nice and chill. They’re having a training session for running/using the telescopes at the observatory tonight, but I didn’t find out about it until today so that was rather short notice. I am going to try to make it to the observing session next week. I haven’t been up there since they put in the new scope. When I was outside tonight putting my filter back in I noted the pleasant aroma of wood smoke. I think I really miss that from growing up. It’s one of the things that would tempt me to live in the country, though I don’t believe there’s anything against burning wood in town (though that just seems kinda wrong). I’m heading up to my parents this weekend and hope to get some wood cut for them. Hopefully the chainsaw is behaving itself otherwise that could prove to be a frustrating endeavour.
My mom called tonight and indicated that the computer I gave them is apparently acting up … as in it won’t boot up. No lights or whirring or anything. I hope it’s not anything serious. I got a call from the shop I took my g5 to for repair last week… they finished it and it turned out that the video card was bad. I am looking forward to having it back. My laptop is nice but has nowhere near the zippiness and power. I’ll probably pick it up on Thursday.
Well, it’s off to bed for me. I made lunches tonight so hopefully I can sleep in just a little bit longer tomorrow morning. 
Archive for September, 2004
Liz and I went to the Phil Collins “First Final Farewell Tour” concert in Milwaukee last night at the Bradley Center. We got there an hour or so early. Some guy on Bradley Center staff was walking around giving out free tickets to the front row. We scored! We actually even got to sing in Phil Collins’ mic when he came down into the audience during Sussudio! How awesome is that!?
314 days until July 16, 2005.
I’ve finally gotten serious about doing backups on my server. I bought a portable 40GB FireWire hard drive to hook to my server and am using rsync to back up my data off the server. I even lock the drive in a fire- & water-proof safe when I’m not backing up. There some more tweaking to be done to the backup script, but it’s *really* fast. I backed up on Thursday night … and just did another sync backup … it took less than 30 seconds. I’m planning on giving my old HP SureStore 12000e (6 x DDS-2) to beldurnik, assuming he still wants one.
Wedding planning is slowly getting under way. We have pretty much decided on a reception venue… but we need to nail down the date. We should be able to do that tomorrow. I have two groomsmen lined up (including best man). Liz has her bridesmaids lined up, so I need to confirm with my 3rd groomsman.
This past week was the start of classes at work. It didn’t go as smoothly as we would have liked. I don’t think we really had anything go wrong that qualified as a catastrophe, but one or two of the problems came very close to that. I’ve decided that I *have* to get new shoes soon. I did a whole lot of walking around this week fixing problems and my feet have been sore by days end. I don’t think it’s been quite as depressingly stressful as last fall was though. I’m still pretty up-beat.
Friday night liz4jc4ever and I went out with flutterbyefred and her boyfriend, as well as two others to San Pedro’s in Hudson. It was fun, but I should have actually eaten something … or not drunk so much. I ordered a strawberry margarita … Liz and I were poking each other and my drink got spilled … the waitress was nice enough to get me another one. I guess I’m a bit of a light-weight, since I was quite tipsy by the time we were done. This was confirmed this morning when I woke up with a bit of a hangover. Not as bad as the first one I had, but I still felt like poo and spent a significant chunk of the day in bed, much to Liz’s dismay. I did feel better after taking an Aleve and later getting out of bed to help with housework (hmm … feeling better by helping with housework … what’s wrong with that picture?).
The folks doing the road construction were nice enough to seed grass this week, so I got to try out my sprinkler. It’s one of the variety that have a stake and do an arc (or full circle) of water. Nicely constructed, but I figured out that I really do need to shut it off before moving it if I don’t want to get wet. I didn’t get too terribly wet while adjusting it to make sure it covered the right area and didn’t water the street though.
Liz is having fun doing homework right now, but I should fold some laundry before we head to bed… so, ta-ta for now!
