Today is my fourth day without smoking. It’s not too bad, really. I had a busy weekend to keep my mind occupied, and work is busy, too. I’m definitely running on a slightly shorter fuse than usual, but I really don’t feel actual cravings to smoke. A couple of people have asked, so I’ll put…
Category: Me stuff
Hello all, and news from yesterday
Just wanted to welcome my friends and family who are visiting this blog at its new location. I get my blog through a service, so I don’t have to write code to have a blog, which is nice. I discovered that they’ll let me publish it by ftp’ing to my main website (linuxlaboratory.org), so I…
Verizon Fios: You must be joking
About two hours ago, I signed up online for Verizon’s new Fiber Optic internet service. About 10 minutes ago, I canceled the order. As it turns out, FIOS is just a really cool shiny thing they hold in front of you so they can get your permission to pull out any trace of copper from…
Degree Status
I went to speak to my advisor at the community college where I’m pursuing an associates degree in computer science. Some good news came out of this meeting: 1. Two humanities classes transferred from the classes I took in, like, 1992. Together with the two that I’ve taken recently (this past summer), the entire humanities…
I stand corrected
Well, you’re never too old to become even more geeky. I was informed yesterday by coworkers that my 32nd birthday is, indeed, significant, because it will take another 32 years before I am again at an age that is a power of 2. Another email said “Happy 2x2x2x2x2nd birthday”. For my non-geek family members, most…
I Turn 32 Today
It’s my 32nd birthday today. I had a great weekend with family and friends, but it’s time to get back to work. I did no work whatsoever all weekend, but I actually have a lot of it to do. Not only at the office, but at home as well. Our trees are just about bare…
More home improvements
Well, last week a crew finished up putting a new roof on the house. All’s well with that, and that same crew will be back in the next week or so to replace the gutters and soffits (sp?). As it turned out, the gutters were really the biggest cause of roof issues. Due to the…
Now I’m a Roofer, Too
Ugh. My new wife woke me up this morning with news that a small drip in our roof that was just discovered yesterday had graduated into a larger problem. What we thought we had under control with a simple bucket requires 7 buckets today. Two in the kitchen, and 5 in the crawl space over…
Congratulations, Yahoo – I’m sorry for your loss
Well, Yahoo just lost me as a loyal user. From now on, my home page is going to be the Google personalized home page (did you know you can create a homepage at google? It’s cool). For about 6 years now, I’ve had a My Yahoo! page. A couple of years ago, they got a…
Random Stuff, and testing trackback
I’m a blog dope. I don’t have a great understanding of what trackback is all about. However, my buddy Steve wrote a sentiment regarding the recent Tannenbaum talk here that we often look at eachother and repeat, so I thought I’d track back to it here. We’ll see what happens. 2 mins later: UPDATE –…