Shipped the G3

I shipped out the G3 I'm giving to a Open Source developer today via the UPS Store.

He should have it monday if all goes well, I made sure to get insurance on the computer and had them pack it.

Hopefully this will enable the developer to make a OS X version of his program.

Batteries...

I wonder how much money I waste on disposable batteries.

I just tossed out two "Energizer E2 Titanium" batteries that were running my mouse and replaced them with some normal Duracells.

Thinking about it I have another battery powered mouse,Two cameras and a GPS that take Double A batteries, I'm gonna try to keep track of how many I go through in a period of time.

A new Top, A Topless Scout, A scout meeting!

It's been a busy day!

This morning I went shopping for the week and got some frozen food to take to work for lunch, Then I went to the east side of town and picked up my new top for the scout with my Dad.

We got a pretty good deal, $110 for the top, Normally they cost between $300 and $600.

The top is in OK shape, its got some holes in it from a lightbar and it needs to be painted.

So when we got home my father started to take the old top off while I had the unpleasant job of cleaning the fish tank.

Later after we got the top off Jon came by to take some pictures and go for a ride in it without the top.

We got the new rear bulkhead mostly in place, there are some bolts that don't fit right so we will have to work on it some more this week, But it was good enough for me to drive to the meeting.

The meeting was good, Got to see people I had not seen in a while and I finally got my Rendevous kit from last year which Joel had been bringing to meeting after meeting in the hopes of catching me.

There was a new guy at the meeting, has a '79 scout that he bought 'new' with 2000 miles on it from a IH dealer in '79.

Quite impressive to see one with the interior in it still.

Crash & Burn

I didnt actually forget to blog tuesday.

When I got home from work I went to lay down because of a headache but instead fell asleep before 7pm!

Closet Cleaning

I'm doing a big cleaning / organizing of my closet today.

Current results:

5 pairs of well fitting pants
18 well fitting shirts
11 T-Shirts
3 Car/Yard work shirts
5 shirts I want to slim down to be able to wear
4 pairs of pants that fit but are not well fitting
3 black sweaters that fit
2 pairs of sweat pants
2 jackets
1 vest
1 windbreaker

1 iMac? (Forgot I had one)

Lan Party

I just got home from today's Lan Party at RD.

The attendees were Doug, Doug, Jason, Jimmy, Chris, Rich, Brian, and Myself.

We played from about 11AM to 11:30PM which is when Jimmy and I left, I don't know how many more hours the rest played.

Starwars Battlefront and The Battle for Middle-Earth were our games this time.

We stopped for lunch about 1 or 2 and did sandwiches, Quizno's for most and Eegees for Brian Jason and Myself.

Dinner was late, maybe 7 or 8pm at PeiWei.

The drive home was nice at 11:30, it was pitch black and there was not a lot of traffic on the roads so I took a longer route than usual on the side-roads instead of taking I10 to get home.

Moving up in the building

Today I made a serious effort to get moved out of my office in the lower level and into my new corner of the IT room.

With the help of Jimmy I now have network connectivity to both the inside and outside networks.

Eric and Mike were nice as well and I netted a replacement PC and a new eMac, I hear there is also a G5 iMac and a new flat panel in the works for me.

I like working in the IT department sofar!

Also today I attended a goodbye kind of lunch that the former VP above Online held, It was at Micha's which was decent food, Not the best food around in my opinion but still nice. It was a little strange since not only is the Online department its own stand alone department now instead of being under Marketing I have also left the department with my reporting to IT starting Monday.

Funny

anole:~$ screen -x
Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die…

Yay for screen.

I just learned it has a 'nethack' mode where if you go into command mode and do a nethack on there are other amusing messages.

Ouch

Ow, I fell just after finishing with dinner tonight.

I was sitting crosslegged on the floor infront of a small table where I was eating, I got up and evidently didnt notice my foot/leg was asleep and over I went.

I think I either sprained or broke part of my foot, it hurts quite a lot.

Good news is that I missed hitting the Bed, Table, TV and Tivo on the way down.

Time for some pain killers and bed.

Work

I'm trying to remember what all I did at work today.

Swapped out the two tape drives on Algol that stopped working with the last spare drive from the Annex, It's only a DLT4000 instead of the DLT7000 I was using so none of my existing tapes are readable.

I ran a cleaning tape through it before I put it into service in the hopes that it will work.

The drive also seems dog slow, I've been dumping a file to it since early this afternoon and its still not done.

Oh, I also finished up the TNI Intranet server, Moved some MySQL data around via the wonderful phpmyadmin, I love that tool.

Compiled RRDtool on the new intranet server so Cacti will be able to produce its graphs of all the switches in the building.

Did a followup check on the new citizenmail server to make sure I actually finished it.

Moved a box of books from my office to my new desk (And hurt my back in the process, Note to self don't fill boxes with books, they get heavy!) and took down some awards in my office I wont have room for.

Digg

Found another neat site today: digg

Digg feels like a cross between Slashdot and Metafilter, I'm currently reading through the archive of past stories for neat articles.

Lunch with Louis

I had a nice lunch today with my friend Louis,

Louis came by to pick up a pair of SPUD brackets and a 2 gig SCSI drive for the Sun Ultra 1 that he is attempting to put Debian Linux on.

We drove over to El Gorrion and had the #4 plate which I love so much.

Funny thing is that we ran into part of my normal lunch group (Rob, Kerry and Tim) also having lunch at El Gorrion.

After lunch Louis drove back to TNI a different route than the one I had planned to show me a restaurant that he recommended that I try from when he worked in the area.

When we returned to TNI I gave Louis what was supposed to be a short tour but it ended up being half an hour long as I showed the two levels of the press and related folders inserters and binders.

del.icio.us

I have decided to once again attempt to use web-based bookmarks to keep track of bookmarks I use on multiple computers.

I have in the past tried Furl and SiteBar, I hope that del.icio.us works well.

You can see my current bookmarks via the attached link.

Happy Newyear

So far my newyears resolution is to attempt to blog more.

I will start with the New Years eve party that I went to.

It was hosted at Chris's house, Not a lot of people I knew showed up but that was OK, it was a pretty small gathering and I felt privileged to be invited.

Jimmy and Rich were there along with their wives, Chris's brother showed up with his wife, Shannon's mother was there and there were three pairs of couples who's names I can no longer remember.

It was a lot of fun, There were a couple delays with the food due to overloading the grill I think but that was OK.

Played some gamecube, Set off some fireworks and had a great time.

I made sure I hadn't drank any alcohol in the hours before I left for home and I made it home without any problems except for my fingers got damn cold due to the lack of heat in my borrowed car.

Best Soap Ever.

Neutrogena Men's POWER SCRUB Deodorant Bar.

I've been using it for about a month now and I swear I feel the cleanest I've ever felt in my life.

The soap is contained in a pouch that is textured so it scrubs better.

I gotta remember to buy more when I run out thus this post.

Belated Birthday lunch.

Today I had a late birthday lunch with some of the folks from my lan party group, Chris , Doug, Jimmy and the other Doug.

Fun lunch at Pei-Wei, had the Honey Seared chicken which Doug paid for.

Got a gift, Doom3, It came wrapped in a printout of a playboy centerfold, Now that was a interesting thing to have at the table at the restraunt.

Time taken to drive home

Using the frontage roads from Silverlake to Grant took 41 minutes 54 seconds. This was with exiting on Sunrise and taking the river train crossing.

Game Night

Another Great night last night.

Two games of Ground Control Two and HOURS of Starwars Battlefront.

Rich did not get on my shit list this time as he didnt steal my name, Infact I cant really think of anyone who got on my shit list.

Chuck was awesome, he brought a extra PC for me to use as mine is still not working corectly, You Rock Chuck!

Tylers Birthday

Today we celebrated Tylers Birthday.

First we went to El Greco's Grecian Gardens.

Nice place, Run by a family I guess, They knew Gus.

In attendance were Tyler, A woman who's name I can not remember, Matt, Matt's brother, Gus, Alex, Jon Shay, Steph Shay, Madison Shay, and briefly Jack. Oh and myself.

I'm not sure how the food was, I only had a small salad which I couldn't finish, It didn't agree with me.

The dish with the fried cheese was really good however.

Next we went to the Fox and Hound.

At the Fox and Hound we had Tyler, Alex, The woman who's name I can not remember, and Myself initially.

We ran into a Co-worker Amy, I hope she doesn't feel offended or anything by the way we acted, It was nice seeing her but I had no clue what to say or talk about.

Oh and I also introduced Alex as Gus which seemed to piss him off a lot, Sorry Alex!

We got a pool table finally and started playing, initially it was Tyler vs Alex, Alex one.

Next up was the woman who's name I can not remember vs Myself.

We were evenly matched, Both doing really poorly.

Still it was fun, She won.

At this point in time the Grossman brothers, Gus, and a guy from Login named Ryan showed up.

Next up was Gus vs Ryan from Login.

I'm afraid I don't know the outcome of the game as I had to go home at this point in time as the smoke in the Fox and Hound made me very sick :(

Sakura

Tonight we went to Sakura,

Jack, Matt, Tyler, Gus and Myself.

Damn cool place, We went to the east side one which they all siad was gheto on comparison to the West one but I still had a lot of fun.

Having a dude cook the food at your table is neat, and he was amusing.