Done yesterday (20110929 Th)

[mdlbear]

0929 Th
  * up 6:35; W=197.4; drugs, nose, dishes, 
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  * back up /etc and /home from stargate - /srv partition is flaky.
  * ordered humira
  * taken out to lunch at Arya by (new-to-me lab director) Vikas.
    We had a good talk.
  * booked next flight to Seattle (Oct 20-24)
  * investigate I/O errors pushing to dsl.  Install smartmontools, etc.
    * BACK UP /etc, /home (wrote save-home-from, derived from save-etc-from)
    . mkfs -c -c will take about 6 hours, but it seems to be working, but the
      first pass is running into slowdowns (probably retries) ~93%.  1%/min.
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  * 15min:  retrieved and coiled ~50' of Cat-5.
  * 15min:  retrieved and coiled a second ~50' chunk of Cat-5.
  & nice IM conversation with N.  I seem to have been acquired by a puma named 
    Sam. 

A pretty good day. I got taken out to lunch by the new (to me -- he's been on board for over a year) lab director, Vikas. Half a sentence into his description of the restaurant he had just discovered last week (when he had lunch with my returning coworker Ed), I knew it had to be Arya. The "mix of Persian and Italian" was a dead giveaway. Yum. (Of course, I weigh 2 pounds more this morning...)

I asked Vikas what his hobbies were, and he said his only hobby was playing tennis. *shakes head in disbelief* I really don't understand people like that. Am I really that weird? {Of course, silly bear! You're in fandom -- it's a simple matter of sampling bias.}

I am now checking and reformatting the flaky partition on the gateway. This makes me somewhat grumpy. It doesn't seem to be flaking, though, so I'm guessing that a couple of sectors got corrupted, perhaps in a power failure. I am thinking seriously of moving to a flash drive, though.

I also did a little decluttering in the office, pulling out a couple of 50-foot Cat-5 cables that were no longer being used. And had a lovely, whimsical IM conversation with pocketnaomi.

And I booked my next flight to Seattle. Of course, Southwest's $49 sale is over :(.

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