journaling: enabled

Well, this has a been a busy weekend. Saturday I went into work for a while then headed to Woodbury to get speakers, an amp and an iPod interface installed in the truck. It took the installer about 6-1/2 hrs to do it. Ugh. I was expecting 3 or maybe 4. It’s all installed now, but doesn’t sound quite as nice as I had hoped. I’m thinking some subs will be needed but that will have to wait until I can afford them. I also discovered it’s rather difficult to kill that many hours in Tamarack Village without a set of wheels. I went into Circuit City and didn’t see anything interesting, though I deliberately avoided looking at DVDs/CDs. I went into CompUSA and the only things that interested me were some nice UPSes (I could use one for the MythTV box) and some gigabit ethernet switches (which at the moment would be pointless since I only have 1 computer with a gigabit NIC). Oh yeah … also some nice LCD displays (drool). Spent an hour or two at Borders looking at books and music. Decided that it might be good to get “The Book of Postfix” and “The CSS Cookbook” … perhaps Christmas ideas, but the cookbook I’d like sooner ‘cuz it has some neat CSS recipes. I spent the remainder of the time at Ultimate Electronics (where the truck was) … got to watch Star Wars Episode 4 on a $24,000 entertainment system. It sounded rather nice.
Sunday was spent at work. Upgraded some more technology-enhanced classroom Macs to MacOS X with Nicky’s assistance. Oh yeah… had to deal with SSL certificate crisis. Apparently MacOS X 10.2 doesn’t trust Starfield Technologies as a SSL certificate issuer. I had to remedy that in short order so incoming freshmen could use the Mac labs to activate their login accounts. Managed to get it working with about 10 minutes left before they started showing up. I hate it when things get down to the wire like that. Since we took my truck into work, I managed to figure out how to play the music I want on the iPod through the stereo. The stereo can control the iPod, but it can’t show the menus so it’s difficult to figure out what’s going on. I finally discovered that it will continue wherever the iPod left off when it was playing standalone. So, I can bring up a playlist and start it playing and plug it in to listen. I was worried for a bit that I had wasted $100, but now I’m happy.
Today was also spent at work. I started out the day tired, and ended up exhausted. Replaced computers in some TECs … again with Nicky’s assistance. Did a bunch of other things that I can’t remember … long day.
Tomorrow I get to man the helpdesk from 8-10am. That should be interesting given all that it’s the last day before classes start. I’m looking forward to Thursday … I have the day off from work to take care of Liz since she’s having some dental-type surgery done. Thankfully no plans for this weekend, so more relaxation then hopefully. Ni-ni.