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Mar. 31st, 2003 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nollyWhen I stop to think about it, I realize this was a fairly productive weekend, even though it didn't exactly feel like it.
Friday night,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jackbishop came over; we hung out and watched Buffy, and I finished the baby blanket o' dooom (pics soon) and started on my mom's birthday present (pics after it's been given). The software release that was supposed to have happened that evening hadn't, but none of the issues were in my code.
Saturday, I went to yoga, found a few treasures at the nearby used book store, took my car to the shop for an oil change (and, happily, that's all it needed), and had brunch withjackbishop before picking up the car ad proceeding to run errands. Got almost everything on my list -- Target was out of bath pillows. New electric toothbrush, since mine quit, batteries, Alavert, paid the rent, picked up some small point protectors and some size 10 Cebelia at the local yarn shop, found a few thrift store treasures -- a denim backgammon set! Was just finishing up the errands when textivore called to say he was at my place and wondering where I was, so headed home, grabbed dinner, and headed off to the Buffy game. Much fun and slayage -- yay flamethrowers! The GM wasn't expecting us to rig those up. :) Hung out for a while after the game, then he headed back north.
Sunday, we learned that our preacher will be leaving us to return to the work in Montreal -- which sounded like an area my brother and his wife would be well suited for, so I mentioned them to Mike (the preacher) and called Lyle (my brother) to give him Mike's email address. Then home, paid bills and did my taxes. Mondo refund. Unfortunately, I also managed to knock a not-quite-empty water glass off my desk. Onto my computer. Which had the case off from the last time I was working on it. Oops. It mostly got the video card, and it might've been fine after drying out, but the system was way, way overdue for an overhaul. So I headed off to Fry's, thinking I'd grab a barebones system, maybe one of those cute mini-ITX deals, plop in the existing drives, and be done. But I wasn't seeing anything I liked. So after checking and discovering that my spare mobo/CPU/memory will not be needed for the ISFDB (it's gone to TAMU rather than SDSC), I grabbed a new case (because my old one was quite a pain to work with, which is why it was open in the first place) and a video card, and some DVDs while I was there, and spent the night building a new system. Which wouldn't boot. After becoming too frustrated to be productive,, I wade myself a nice cup of tea, and started teaching myself to tat while I waited for it to cool. And I started knitting a sock, since all the materials were right there in front of me. Only four rounds into it -- two last night, and two this morning. It's my first DPN project. I can't spend too much time on it until I finish the birthday present, though. By the time I'd been successfully crafty and finished my tea, I was calm enough to hit the sack. Finished reading The Maquisarde, by Louise Marley, who wrote the most excellent The Terrorists of Irustan (read it! now!) and the very enjoyable The Glass Harmonica. Maquisarde is more like Terrorists than Harmonica was, and I also highly recommend it. If I don't slack and miss the deadline, I'll be nominating it for the Hugo. (Along with China Miéville's The Scar, though I didn't like that one quite as much as Perdido Street Station which should have won last year.) I then started Christopher Morley's Parnassus on Wheels, though I've not finished the foreword yet -- a useful foreword which explains some of the lines which refer to things everyone knew at the time it was written (1916, IIRC), but which might not be understood my mordern readers, like a reference to an ad for a particular brand of corset.
This morning, I was talking tothespatula on AIM, and she asked the right question for me to realize what at least one of the stupid mistakes I'd made assembling the new box was -- I'd forgotten to set the DVDROM to slave. (It's replacing a CDROM I borrowed a few years ago; it's been sitting around waiting to be installed for months.) It was either booting terribly slowly or still not booting, though, and I had to leave for work before I could investigate fully. Still, is progress, and hopefully I'll have a fully functional PC again soon. Meanwhile, I at least have the Mac, though I only have a newsreader configured on the PC.
The extra-warm weather the past few days has driven the ants inside, as usual, so I picked up some more baits and placed them as seemed appropriate. If that doesn't work, I'll have to pick up some spray or something.
All in all, I got a lot done. No wonder I need weekends after my weekends!
Friday night,
jackbishop came over; we hung out and watched Buffy, and I finished the baby blanket o' dooom (pics soon) and started on my mom's birthday present (pics after it's been given). The software release that was supposed to have happened that evening hadn't, but none of the issues were in my code. Saturday, I went to yoga, found a few treasures at the nearby used book store, took my car to the shop for an oil change (and, happily, that's all it needed), and had brunch with
jackbishop before picking up the car ad proceeding to run errands. Got almost everything on my list -- Target was out of bath pillows. New electric toothbrush, since mine quit, batteries, Alavert, paid the rent, picked up some small point protectors and some size 10 Cebelia at the local yarn shop, found a few thrift store treasures -- a denim backgammon set! Was just finishing up the errands when textivore called to say he was at my place and wondering where I was, so headed home, grabbed dinner, and headed off to the Buffy game. Much fun and slayage -- yay flamethrowers! The GM wasn't expecting us to rig those up. :) Hung out for a while after the game, then he headed back north. Sunday, we learned that our preacher will be leaving us to return to the work in Montreal -- which sounded like an area my brother and his wife would be well suited for, so I mentioned them to Mike (the preacher) and called Lyle (my brother) to give him Mike's email address. Then home, paid bills and did my taxes. Mondo refund. Unfortunately, I also managed to knock a not-quite-empty water glass off my desk. Onto my computer. Which had the case off from the last time I was working on it. Oops. It mostly got the video card, and it might've been fine after drying out, but the system was way, way overdue for an overhaul. So I headed off to Fry's, thinking I'd grab a barebones system, maybe one of those cute mini-ITX deals, plop in the existing drives, and be done. But I wasn't seeing anything I liked. So after checking and discovering that my spare mobo/CPU/memory will not be needed for the ISFDB (it's gone to TAMU rather than SDSC), I grabbed a new case (because my old one was quite a pain to work with, which is why it was open in the first place) and a video card, and some DVDs while I was there, and spent the night building a new system. Which wouldn't boot. After becoming too frustrated to be productive,, I wade myself a nice cup of tea, and started teaching myself to tat while I waited for it to cool. And I started knitting a sock, since all the materials were right there in front of me. Only four rounds into it -- two last night, and two this morning. It's my first DPN project. I can't spend too much time on it until I finish the birthday present, though. By the time I'd been successfully crafty and finished my tea, I was calm enough to hit the sack. Finished reading The Maquisarde, by Louise Marley, who wrote the most excellent The Terrorists of Irustan (read it! now!) and the very enjoyable The Glass Harmonica. Maquisarde is more like Terrorists than Harmonica was, and I also highly recommend it. If I don't slack and miss the deadline, I'll be nominating it for the Hugo. (Along with China Miéville's The Scar, though I didn't like that one quite as much as Perdido Street Station which should have won last year.) I then started Christopher Morley's Parnassus on Wheels, though I've not finished the foreword yet -- a useful foreword which explains some of the lines which refer to things everyone knew at the time it was written (1916, IIRC), but which might not be understood my mordern readers, like a reference to an ad for a particular brand of corset.
This morning, I was talking to
thespatula on AIM, and she asked the right question for me to realize what at least one of the stupid mistakes I'd made assembling the new box was -- I'd forgotten to set the DVDROM to slave. (It's replacing a CDROM I borrowed a few years ago; it's been sitting around waiting to be installed for months.) It was either booting terribly slowly or still not booting, though, and I had to leave for work before I could investigate fully. Still, is progress, and hopefully I'll have a fully functional PC again soon. Meanwhile, I at least have the Mac, though I only have a newsreader configured on the PC.The extra-warm weather the past few days has driven the ants inside, as usual, so I picked up some more baits and placed them as seemed appropriate. If that doesn't work, I'll have to pick up some spray or something.
All in all, I got a lot done. No wonder I need weekends after my weekends!
