Done yesterday (20090719)

[mdlbear]

0719 Su
  * Up 7ish; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee
  * backups:  2009-07-19T07:45:32-0700 .. 2009-07-19T08:10:37-0700
  * I like Chrome, but it's missing a few features I like from Firefox
    The performance boost is well worth it, however.  
    Lack of printing and flash will keep FF in occasional use, though.
  @ linuxjournal.com/content/keeping-touch-guide-linux-audio-comm-channels
  @ beagleboard.org/ - $150 OMAP board.  No onboard ethernet, but video
  & Call from Mom.  Contact info for Caroline; travel plans.  8/1-3
    SJC->DCA (Reagan) United seems to be the price leader.  Redeye is $448
    Southwest to Dulles (IAD) is way cheaper.
  * Sleeptrain came and replaced YD's bedframe
  & got the 1.5T drive set up in the USB dock.
  * coffee
  * afternoon at work.
    * installed chrome on argo (laptop)
    * traced weirdness to an error return from call-home.sh in rc.local
  * Mutual upsettedness with the YD over commode handling
    ! alarmed, mildly angry, then regretful at letting it get out of hand
  * made dinner: Chinese-style pork
  ! 8:45 falling apart.  Overload.  The headache doesn't help either.
  * 10:30ish Colleen going to bed.  I should follow.

I'm continuing to like Google Chrome, but I miss my emacs keybindings. There's probably a way to fix that, but the documentation is sparse at best. I may have to consider switching to uzbl. The performance improvement is huge -- Firefox on my 1GHz Thinkpad renders the whole thing barely usable. Chrome is nearly as fast and small as Lynx.

I put in a couple of hours at work in the afternoon and found the mysterious bug that had been plaguing me all day Friday: things go very wonky when an error early in rc.local causes it to error out and skip a lot of the special-purpose setup code.

I got the 1.5TB drive set up in a USB dock; still waffling on how to format it. To some extent that depends on whether I expect it to be only a backup drive, or also function as a bootable spare. Decisions.

With uptimes like 57 days for my workstation, 182 days for the fileserver and 245 for the router, it's easy to see that my vague idea of rebooting systems every month or so has gone by the wayside, like so much else.

I'm going to have to fly to the East Coast for an emergency family visit, the first weekend in August. We're going to have to find somebody to stay with Colleen; she's not quite ready to live that long alone, and the YD isn't up for being a caregiver.

I found myself falling apart in the evening. Going to bed at 10:30 and snuggling seemed like the best thing to do, and indeed it was.

We both did a huge amount of puttering, junk-sorting, and decluttering over the weekend; three bags of old papers to be shredded (work uses a secure destruction service), three or four boxes emptied, and several long-lost treasures uncovered.