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Just had lunch with Joe & Chu from work. Joe says between closing and moving in on the new place, I should paint and stuff. I hadn’t even thought of that possibility. I don’t think I’m going to. Don’t want to spend the time and money on that sort of thing right away. On the other hand, it will be an empty house… Dunno. Yeah, I didn’t make it. Didn’t try all that hard. If I had really wanted to, I might have been able to if I skipped my shower and such and just got dressed and ran out the door as fast as humanly possible. But I didn’t. I took my time. And I put away some laundry and tidyed up the place a bit before I left. And other stuff like that. Also, instead of going in to my office in the close building, this was a day for me to go to our other building, so I drove further. Could have stopped at the first building just to pay less, I passed it at 13:44, which would have been $5. But my first meeting was in the second building, so I kept driving. Got to the desk here at 14:08. So $7. Bleh. There goes this being the last week of this! Oh well. Time to work now. I”ve been fighting with the stupid old laptop I have here for work for the last half hour. Finally have it all rebooted and operational. Meeting in 20 minutes. I’ll get ready for that and clear out some simple work email. Well, alarms started going off at 10:30. But I didn’t actually leave the bed until 12:20. In theory it might be possible to make it by 13. But the chances are VERY slim. Oh well. Suppose I should try. Yawn! My normal work hours are 14:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC. But most people where I work tend to get in at 13:00 UTC. (During the summer anyway, in the winter everybody comes in an hour later. They do that goofy savings time thing here.) Anyway, it seemed like coming in an hour earlier at 13:00 UTC would be a good thing for me. So a couple months ago I made a bet with Kelly from work as a technique to motivate myself. I would pay her a dollar if I got in after 13:00 UTC, and an additional dollar for every 10 minutes beyond that I got in. So, for instance, if I came in at 13:43 UTC, she’d get five dollars. This would go on until I did an entire week getting in before 13:00 UTC. This has not gone well. I’ve ended up giving Kelly money almost every day. Maybe once a week or so I’ll not have to. Some days I’ve had to pay up to $12. Kelly is now planning a vacation to Mexico financed by me being late. This is not good. So this week I am planning on doing the week on time, to end this thing. OK. Good. Problem. OK. To get in at 13, I need to have my alarm set to 11 to give me time to hit snooze a few times, get up, get ready, and get to work. OK. Fine. That means to have a decent nights sleep I have to be asleep by 3 UTC. Urgh. For me that is horribly early. I almost never get to sleep before 5 UTC. And it is often later. So today at 3 I started thinking about sleeping. At 4 UTC I actually turned off the lights and tried to sleep. I failed miserably. By 5 UTC I had given up and was surfing the web, answering email and making a couple posts here (my latest distraction). It is now after 7 UTC. I am finally starting to feel sleepy. But now I have to get up in only 4 hours. I doubt my willpower to actually get up when the alarm rings. My first meeting today is actually not until 15 UTC. In my little brain I know I don’t HAVE to be at work until then. Even though 13 is my goal. And I will be sleepy and not fuilly concious and rational, and I will want to sleep. But I should try. This daily cash outflow needs to stop! I am buying a house after all! But I will keep my word on my little bet. I need to be in by 13 for a full calendar week to get out of this. I’ve got to try. Of course, to do that, I should stop writing, and try to sleep again. I think I will do that now. This story is pretty disturbing, although it basically says things we knew before. Basically Rumsfeld and the Pentagon were so self-absorbed int heir own vision of things that they were completely blinded to contrary input coming from elsewhere. And not just from the “opposition” but by the State Department and CIA.
This is just one more example of this kind of thing coming from the Rumsfeld/Cheney/Wolfowitz worlds. They seem to pop up almost every day. I hope W will learn from these fiascos and spend a bit more time listening to Powell, and less time listening to these wackos. Although so far, that does not seem to be the case. W seems to be one of the wackos himself, or at least controled enough by them that it doesn’t matter. (via History News Network) OK. Saw this thing pinging my site, and had to set myself up to be on it and added the needed metadata to my site and made sure the RSS version of my site was properly linked.. Pretty cool. I like it. You just watch it and people’s geographic location lights up as their sites are updated. It uses the data at geourl.com which I also made sure got updated. Which is neat because you can easily find other websites geographically close to me and via acme.co the sat picture of my location. I just have to remember to update my location once I move. I’ll save hooking the GPS to my laptop and having it update the location automatically every few minutes for some later project. :-) So, I went to the Americana, had some pasta spinich thing. It was really good. The waitress was really cute. All was good. But when I left I was completely stuffed. And when I got home, my apartment was above 80 again. (I put in the work request almost 3 weeks ago, they still haven’t fixed the AC.) It was hot. I was stuffed. I fell asleep within minutes. Just woke up again now, several hours later. The poor birds still haven’t had their cage cleaned. I guess I really should do that right now. But it is so HOT! I don’t feel like moving! The temperature outside dropped to less than the temp inside while I was asleep. So I just opened the windows and such. So it should get better soon. It is a good thing I am moving I guess. But I should clean the birdcage. And feed them. If Tivo becomes widespread and these sort of ratings details become commonplace, it will indeed radically change the economic model of television. But for the better I think.
(via tivocommunity.com) OK, now as I mentioned to some people right after the Segway came out, THIS is the kind of thing that seems like the most probable common use. We’ll see how it turns out. But I’d been waiting to see this. http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/player/segwayrmpvideos.html (via SlashDot) OK, looks like a couple other people may have looked at the redesigned site before Lynn did. Going back in the log files I missed a couple. cache114.156ce.maxonline.com.sg followed a link to me from Funny Pet Photos which highlighted a picture I took of Sara soon after I found her on I-95. That hit was after the basic redesign of the site, but before I added the camera. Then there was a hit from verton.capfed1.sinectis.com.ar. No referrer, so I don’t know what brought them here. But it looks like it might be a real human. All the other hits so far to the front page are either me or robots I think. A few hits to random pages on the site from search engines as well, and Brandy hit the camera page, but I’m not looking at those right now. But anyway, Lynn appears to be the first person I know to look at the new front page (including the return of the AbulCam) and BlueYonder person seems to be the first person coming from the Ecosystem link. And Brandy did look at the camera (I’d given her the URL since she was with me when I bought the iSight). Nobody who has made my email top ten in the last year has looked at the front page yet as far as I can tell. It will probably be awhile. None of them check the site regularly I don’t think. :-) OK. Enough watching log files for now. I have to clean that birdcage, get some food, and then answer email! |
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