Done yesterday (20101024 Su)

[mdlbear]

1024 Su
  * up 7:15; W=198.2; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, dishes
  @ Occasional kvetch - The serial comma killer rides again
  * backups:  2010-10-24T08:21:00-0700 - 2010-10-24T09:07:45-0700
    /dev/sdc5            1349854392 464306848 816978916  37% /media/bak
  & sort and discard ancient video and ethernet cards
  @ Can the iPhone Thrive in Apples Closed Ecosystem? via osewalrus 
  * Puttering: noticable (non-paper) declutter in the office
  @ The trouble with Google Books - Laura Miller - Salon.com via thnidu
  * take rahul.net out of fetchmailrc
  * add {steve, colleen}@t.com (colleen simply forwards to .org)
  & (15:02:40) mdlbear, with the attention span of a mayfly with ADD, proceeds
    to clear off the tray table next to the desk that was originally hauled
    out for the tax work in April.
  * shopping.  Sprouts for cheap fresh salmon and fresh mozzerella. 
    Starving Musician: Behringer EUROLIVE B205D Active PA/Monitor Speaker Tempting. 
    7lbs; 2 mic preamps and 1 instrument in, so it would work for me and one
    other.  Adding a third would require an outboard mixer.  Probably better
    to put money into the 8-channel computer rig.
  * buy: C, Tums.  Colleen's drugs. 
  ~ attempt to move netsol domains; not showing up in the account info.
  * moved places.to to DH; changed email to steve@s.net
  * fix DNS for places.to, hyperspace-express.com, grand-central-starport.org
  * tech support at networksolutions.com took a while to catch on, but ...
    I HAVE MY OLD NIC HANDLE BACK!!  SS39.  I am a happy bear.
    their on-hold "music" is Pachelbel's Canon in D.  Shoot me with it now.
  * set up hyperspace-express.com etc. on DH
  * some practicing.  Sang Lock-Keeper; one of my best performances of it.
  * ICANN time
  * GoDaddy: unify email addresses for contact info -> thestarport.org
    requires finding a suitable address, e.g. at hyperspace-express.com
  * bath, afrin, snuggle

A lot of yesterday turned out to be spent on system administration, which on the whole was a good thing. I finally, though reluctantly, cancelled my account(s) at rahul.net. He was a great ISP back in the days of dialup, hacker-friendly, local, and technically savvy. But he was too small to offer DSL, and pretty expensive as a hosting provider. Everything's on Dreamhost now.

I also logged in on Network Solutions, only to find that the account consolidation I thought had been done a couple of years ago hadn't actually happened. It took me an hour or so on the phone to get it straightened out, but while I was at it I had the tech track down and consolidate my oldest account, with my original NIC handle of SS39. I am a happy bear -- last time they told me I couldn't get it back without access to the (now invalid) email address it was based on.

I also did a little practicing (at Colleen's request), and a little decluttering around the office, mostly of objects that weren't made of paper this time. That's next. It's amazing how quickly paper can pile up on any available horizontal surface.

Some good links, including the Behringer EUROLIVE B205D Active PA/Monitor Speaker which I saw at Starving Musician when I was out buying salmon for dinner. I decided not to buy one; one more mic preamp (it has two) and I probably would have. It would fit comfortably in my suitcase.

As it turns out, I really need afrin or some other strong decongestant in order to sleep well. Breathing helps for some reason.

Comments

[donsimpson.livejournal.com]

Horizontal Surface Depletion Syndrome.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Oy, yeah. (looks around at... where desk space should be)