Just back from Ram's Head Live, where we saw the amazing Zoë Keating. Did I mention amazing? There's more to say, but I'm whacked and it's a school night. We had great seats, at a table abutting the stage. I cannot recommend enough seeing Zoe live - she rocks!
Continue reading...The day winds down, and I have my obligation to fulfill. Our condolences to these fallen warriors:
Continue reading...It makes me happy to find the first tomatoes set in the garden. The basil is going like gangbusters, too. Just thought I'd share that snap. Back later.
Continue reading...At least, I'm not insane for any of the usual reasons. A few times over the last couple of weeks, my Linux system here would be dark. When I got home from work ... when I woke up in the morning. That's not normal, because as the home storage, DNS, and mail server, off is a bad state to be in. I figured it was the system, though, and was waiting for some logged evidence of the sub-system I need to replace. Last night, I left the Windows box running, too, mostly out of laziness. This morning, both systems were…
Continue reading...Not really. But it is our thirteenth wedding anniversary. Marcia and I were married in Sunnyvale back in '98, and we're pleased to have surprised almost everyone with the longevity of our second date, errr, marriage. My present to her this year was to wake her up and tell her that she could go ahead and get the Handi Quilter HQ24 Fusion system with something called ProStitcher (which means that Marcia hands the computer a design, the computer stitches the quilt). It doesn't even sparkle and I got her to cry. Yeah, it's a few years earlier than we originally…
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