05.08.00
April showers… May recovery
A few of you got worried about me and my little journal here. Well, I’m finally back online and running. It seems that my ISP must have made some changes to their system, what web servers are running as and permissions and such. That stuff must have happpened around March 29. It looks like I got things cleaned up. I think some stuff may have been caught off-guard by the leap year, perhaps not.
Either way, it couldn’t have come at a worse time because of all the projects that have come up and wielded their ugly heads. Work projects, colds, projects for my PSU class, flues, Amy’s parents moving, my spring cleaning bug, car problems, freelance work issues. Wow, April was a busy month.
Good things happened though. I got a new G4 at work with a big beautiful monitor. Now my eyes won’t wig out after a day of work. We brought on an Actual Project Manager, which was something I’d been waiting for. Now we’ve just got to get him into the flow of the company, and get the sales reps to give up thier control on individual projects and trust the new guy.
I started actually cleaning up stuff at home. It’s that spring cleaning bug, I’m sure. Amy and I got a storage unit to keep some furniture that her parents gave us. Till we have room for them, we’ve got them in storage, and since there’s lots of space left over, I’ve been moving some of my less used stuff over there, like vinyl albums that I can’t play till I get a good turntable and get ’em recoded into MP3s. Still lots of stuff to clean out, but it’s getting better.
Amy and I have been going to a few Blazers games which have been a blast. She’s really excited by the team this year, and I’ve gotten swept up in the fever myself. I love seeing her enjoy herself at these games and really having so much fun. It’s brought more of those beautiful smiles to her face in the past few months.
I finally got a Keyspan Twin Serial Adapter and now have a way of connecting my Newton to my G3. Just this morning I sync’d up my address book, and now I’m back to carrying it around with me. (It had fallen out of use because while I had consolidated all my contacts and address books in to Palm Desktop, I needed a way to upload that stuff to the Newton. Now it’s there and I’m pleased as punch.)
And yes, I’m still working on getting Amy’s 6400 running Photoshop correctly. It’d been a bit of a pain, but I’m narrowing down the problem. I’ll probably work on it a bit tonight, while she eats dinner and isn’t working on her freelance work.
A few other meme spews: we have html for a standard format for pages. what would a standard format for a downloadable database look like? I’m thinking of this for stuff like a recipe terminal in the kitchen. === I want a Keyspan Digital Media Remote. Badly. === The OpenUsing CMM is wonderful <http://www.home.aone.net.au/carter/> === I don’t trust the guys at Firestone on Powell. They just seemed fishy. Hopefully either Les Schwab will be open on Sunday or we’ll get our flat tires on Saturdays. === <http://www.blogger.com> is very cool, but I’ll stick with my home grown solution for Dwelling and put my other web stuff on Blogger such as <http://www.gaff.cc> === Gates is nuts. They ought to disolve the company. === My desktop picture collection is growing. I now rotate it on a daily basis. Once I move this site, I’ll link to the archive. === Speaking of moving this site, it looks like we’ll finally be moving from Netscape Enterprise Server for our web hosting to Apache. Joy! Now all my Perl and XSSI stuff will work.
More later, as I’ve got a whole month’s worth of comments to type out here… 🙂