Done yesterday (20090722)

[mdlbear]

0722 We
  * up 7:15; W=193.6; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee
  * copy backups to new drive (currently mounted on dorsai:/media/bak)
  => -probably- necessary to do a search-and-destroy on IM logs
  * 9am first keynote:  OSCon 
  = parking ticket in wallet; safer than shirt pocket.  One thing that the
    small purse lacks.
  * OSCon - fun; good info
    no continental breakfast, but excellent lunch.
    spending a lot of time between note-taking and IM; 
    not as much socializing as in previous years.  Distracted.
  & 3:30ish Call from Al: Barb died this afternoon
    ! sad
  * 5ish: cpltree of /bak done
  * spending a lot of time reading In the Land of Invented Languages
  * 10:30ish heading for bed 

A very emotionally-mixed day. I spent the day at OSCon, taking notes in emacs and hanging out on IM for a low-bandwidth chat with N. OSCon is, as usual, a lot of fun and very informative, though I was a bit disappointed at the lack of the usual free continental breakfast. Of course, with home so close I don't need it. (Lunch was excellent, though, and more than made up for the lack of breakfast.) I spent most of my time on sessions related to release management and server administration, since I may well end up doing some of that at work.

On the other hand, my brother called around 3:30 to tell me that my sister-in-law had died. She was at home, on hospice care, and it was expected, but still... I'm flying out next weekend.

I've been doing less socializing at OSCon this year than I usually do, in large part because I'm distracted. The booth conversations in the expo have been good, though -- most of the people manning the booths actually know something: most of them are the developers of the software they're demonstrating. And being local, I'm more likely to run into people I know.

I'm mostly done with In the Land of Invented Languages. More fun. I've copied my backups from the old 500GB drive to a new 1.5TB one. I now have 3 500GB SATA drives that I could use to expand the fileserver; I'm still debating exactly how to format them.

Comments

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear that your sister-in-law passed away. Even though it was not unexpected, it is still sad and stressful. Big hugs.

[mdlbear]

*hugs back*

Yeah. She'd been battling breast cancer for about a decade.

[chaoswolf]

I am sorry to hear about Aunt Barb.

[mdlbear]

*hugs*