I just came back in from the yard. I'm covered in mosquito bites. Totally covered. I think I need to think about chemical warfare in the back yard. On the up side the sprinkler system I've been dreading testing all year appears to work just fine. There are a bunch of missing heads, which means digging and the like to fix them...but there is only one place where I suspect the line is totally trashed. This is fantastic news as we're having landscapers do the front yard very shortly here. The down side is I have to fix the heads in a hurry, so the system is ready for the new plants. It does appear that some number of the heads are actually outside my back fence... which was set where I believed the property line to be. Not far outside mind you but outside none the less. Stay tuned for the further sagas of sprinkler head madness.

wow... blogger really does work with mozilla.

Lately I've been running linux on my laptop, so I could play with it some....you know develop some familiarity with it since it's never bad to learn new things. I bought a laptop for the express purpose.

Things I want to try soon: wine...I want to make some of my windows games work. switching from ext2 to ext3 (file system switch) deciding if I really need to be running ksoftirqd....maybe compiling a kernel with just the modules I need.

sad that my life is so boring..but I am learning a bunch

Well wednesdays post was pretty accurate. I'm not sure I enjoyed more than about 15 minutes of CVG. I need to make sure that the sort of overscheduling that went on this last weekend doesn't happen again. Thursday I spent in ArtShow as planned. Friday I got up took the dogs to the kennel, and on my way back to the hotel ran an errand or two for ArtShow. I leave art show to go check my schedule for my hotel shifts, and I'm not even all the way to the bridge before I get paged back to run another errand for art show. I go run the errand. I'm pretty hostile by now as someone else was supposed to have done this and I'm now not going to get food before my 12-3 hotel shift. I get done with that about 4:30 as my replacement was late. I go get food. Then I get to go work the supercon party shilling for registrations. I go to bed too late. I get up at 5:30 to make my 6am hotel shift. work 6-10ish.. where upon I go nap for about an hour until somebody wakes me up to drag me somewhere I don't even remember. Then Art show resumes its abuse of me for the evening. Go to bed at 2am. Get up at 5:03.. for another 6AM hotel 2 shift. See the lack of sleep. Work hotel 2 until noonish get us out of the hotel pay the bill. Then I get to go help tear down artshow. Which doesn't go as well as I would have liked. the art show folks are fried and not really providing any direction. I get hostile. Its all bad. eventually I get the shit out of the hotel and try and decide if I am going or staying. i run into some nice people we go eat. I go home and sleep. Til tuesday more or less.

Convergence sucked. completely and totally.

Why the hell do I even go to conventions? why do I set my self up for all the stress. There is NOTHING fun about them. leastwise nothing I can't do outside of a convention.

I know you all want to be productive and shit. I know that you got started hours before you meant to. I'm glad of that but when I tell you that you will be printing with the printer attached to a particular thing and that I will build the network when I get home... I mean...DON'T TRY AND DO IT YOURSELF! is that so damned difficult. If you want my help swell...but for the love of god don't go making it harder just because you want it now. Also one of us must be employed at the moment that's me... calling at 3:15 and asking if I can leave now is NOT a good way to keep my humor up. Dreadfully sorry. I may elect not to help you at all since your vailliant staffers thus far have all let you down.

This blog has moved

I've been ignoring it a lot lately as I haven't had the easiest time posting. I guess we'll see how this works. One GOOD thing about comcast buying the AT&T broadband is that I get FTP access from anywhere now!

Laura