Kevin's musings

Not much exciting to report on monday. I did stay up until the wee
hours finishing a book. It’s been a while since I did
that. Staying up till 3am is not as fun the next day as it used
to be. It was a fun book tho: The 4th Dresden book:
Summer
Knight. Not some kind of great literary work, but a fun
read. Lots of nice twists and turns, good fights and dialog.

I need to go out later today and get food for Xmas eve/day
dinners. Since I am staying home this year I get to make my own
dinner. Will probably look for one of those turkey breast
thingies, and look at doing some cookies or other desert.

Need to get my butt in gear and start cleaning up the house in prep
for the party tonight. Also need to make some cookies and take
stock and see if I have enough finger foody things. Also need to
check on booze. I think I have all the martini fixings I need,
but not sure about other things. Also need to go and drop off my
old microwave and toaster over at colorado homeless
families. Busy Busy.

Hurray. Cobalt machines are finally end of lifed. I fucking hate the
cobalt raq’s. Some clients of ours have them and they are
worthless and anoying. They don’t ever have security updates,
which is a gigantic “kickme” sign on the internet these
days. They don’t have featurefull software, since they are 10
million versions behind. They have crappy hardware. You can’t
get their binaries easily. They just suck. Hurray for them
getting the axe!

Had a nice time at boulder hacking society tonight. Went and had
dinner at the southern sun, then over to caffe sole for wireless
and geeking. The wireless there still hates my usb wireless
card. Noticed that my laptop has a mini-pci modem in it, and the
thought was to try a mini-pci wireless in it and see if it could
find it. Convinced john to take the mini-pci out of his thinkpad
and let me try it. Turns out tho to do that he needed a “secure
torx”, so that failed. Oh well, it was a nice try anyhow. Will
see about finding another mini-pci to try.