Tonight I went up to boulder and brewed some
beer.
We go to a place called The
beer store. Basically they have all the ingrediants and
all the stuff you need to brew in one place, and are happy to
help you as much or as little as you like. It’s pretty nice. We
made a red ale tonight.
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Nothing much went on yesterday. Lots of rebooting machines for the new
kernel update. Got my season 5 MASH dvd’s in and watched a
few. I still definitely like the early ones better, but these
are still entertaining.
Looks like my friend Bret is going to be in town tomorrow through
sunday. Should be really nice to see him.
Very cool set of rings around the moon tonight. I tried to take some
pictures
, but it’s not something that turns out well. There are just some
kinds of pictures that don’t work. Oh well. Trust me, it’s
pretty cool. 🙂
Worked along until it was time to go and get my friend Bret from the
airport. Took off from my place around 4pm. Every trip to the
airport is an adventure these days it seems. Had to wait for a
long ass train to go by, lots of traffic, but finally made it
out to the airport. Since everyone is feeling orange these days,
they had a security checkpoint on the road, stopping every Nth
car. Luckily I wasn’t stopped, but still anoying and caused
nasty slowdowns on the road. How much of a search can they do on
a car in a minute or two? What threat is that protecting
against? Got to the terminal and couldn’t find Bret. Turns out
he was at the passenger dropoff instead of the
pickup. Dho. Managed to hook up with him finally and flee the
airport. Funny in a place with no curb side checkin, my friend
could sit on the side of the terminal with a shotgun and wait
for me.
Went up to boulder to the walnut for some yummy dinner and
barelywine. I really like their barleywine, and they only have
it in december and january each year. Well worth the trip. Good
food and good company.
Well, my main server is sure not being very stable. Every since the
great CPU fan meltdown it’s been locking up every few days or
just refusing to talk on the network. Looked around on-line and
I can put together the parts I need for a new box for $500 or
so. Of course, looking further I find complete systems for
$500. Still cheaper to get that than to make your own. Will have
to ponder on it over the weekend.
Took some
pictures
of the small gathering last night. Had Bret and
Chris in from town and went out to dinner with them and Lenore
and Jennifer and Scott. A good time was had by all.
Pretty quiet day here at the ranch. Had to get up and take Bret to the
airport, but since we are now in terror alert level
bert
there wasn’t a anoying security checkpoint on the road into the
airport.
Did a few things around the house, walked the dogs, and then I broke
out the copy of The StoryTeller Collection.
I had 2 storyteller video tapes for a long time, but this DVD version
has about 4 episodes that I have never seen before. I highly
reccomend them. It’s cool fairy tales done by Jim Henson with
very nicely done artwork and muppetlike things. Very
enjoyable.
Didn’t get much sleep last night. I was wanting to go to bed early for
once so I went up and got in bed around 10pm, then started
reading. Of course I got caught up in the book I was reading and
keept reading until about midnight. Then I couldn’t get to
sleep. Finally drifted off around 1:30 I would guess. Then,
something happened that hasn’t happened to me for a long
time. My cat woke me at around 5.
Some cat history: My friend had found bitty(or bitters) while out
jogging one morning. She was a tiny little calico kitten that
had been run over by a car. We took her in and nursed her back
to heath. Her pelvis was broken, and it took quite a while to
heal up. She didn’t get along at all with the other cats in the
house. 2 of them cooperated to corner her and beat her up. So,
when I moved to my own place I took her with me as an only
cat. She’s been pretty happy here with just the dogs around
(those she can boss around). However, she still HATES other
cats. So, some wandering cat decided to hang out on my poorch
this morning at about 5am. Bitty sees the other cat. Poofs her
tail up to the size of her body and starts hissing and
howling. When she does that it sounds like she’s being tortured,
but she’s just really mad and trying to get the other cat to go
away. Luckily other cats don’t seem to come by my house too
often.
Got my new computer in today. Pretty fast. I ordered it monday and
only paid for 3 day shipping, and got here today. It seems like
a pretty nice machine. P4 2.8ghz with 512m ram, 160gb hd. Has a
nice video/sound/network builtin and has compact flash, sd,
firewire all built in. Got it setup and am running burnin on
it. It’s not perhaps as fast as it should be. I need to tweak
the BIOS settings perhaps. Should make quite the overkill for
replacing my former main server. If it works out well I might
get another one to replace the mp3/dvd box.
In other news, looks like Dave is going to get adopted this weekend. Hurray!
Had a very nice time yesterday at
Boulder Hacking Society
dinner and meeting. Jafo and Ant came down to Boulder from
Fort Collins to join us. I think we had about 12 people at the
caffe at one point. Took some pictures of all the
geeks.
Swapped the new computer into place as my main scrye.com
machine. Seems to be doing fine. A P4 2.8ghz machine is way
overkill for email and such, but I can also use it to do builds
on and so forth. At least it seems more stable than the old
one.
Today is a pretty nifty day. Our client that has the cobalt raq’s
finally has finished moving all the sites off them and we have
them turned off finally. Hurray! Dave the foster dog goes to his
new home later today. Hurray! And it’s friday. 🙂
Watched two movies last night (I got about 4 netflix in at once). The
first was
Chicago. I had
heard many good things about it, so I stuck it on the rental
list a long time back. It was ok. There were a few really good
musical numbers, but some very ‘eh’ ones. Overall I would have
to say it was overrated by those who recommended it.
Secondly was
Bulletproof Monk.
I wasn’t expecting much from it, but it was one of those fun to watch
once and turn off your brain. Not something I would view again,
but it was a good waste of an hour or two.
I really like my Blackened Shrimp and Linguine dish. It turns out good
pretty much every time, it’s not too hard to make and it’s also
mostly good for you.
Now to head out and run a ton of errands…