mdlbear | Done yesterday (20111029 Sa) (Reply)

Good day, good party. More people than I was afraid would show up, including (former coworker) Jake. The folks at EWS are working all weekend trying to get their release out; I sang The Mushroom Song for him. He bought a CD :). I may need to package up some more of the Limited Edition; if people are going to insist on paying $20 for a $15 CD, I have to have something extra to sell them.

I made two pots of chili for dinner, since the amount of ground beef Colleen had purchased didn't fit in one pot. The larger pot was a straightforward batch of Caroll Shelby's chili kit -- ~5 lbs of meat with onions, red wine, and a little extra cumin, ancho chili, and Penzey's Chili 3000. The smaller pot had ~2.5 lbs of meat, 5 Serano peppers sliced into little circles and sauteed with the onions, the aforementioned spices in larger quantity, and cider vinegar as well as the wine (2-buck Chuck, of course). Both came out yummy. Some left over, of course; one partly-filled 1-quart ziplock bag of each.

I was out in the living room and social for a fair amount of time (including two bouts of singing), and had conversations in both the office and the kitchen. In between, I worked on configuring Nagios for monitoring the Starport's network infrastructure. Took me a while to figure out whether I wanted to do it as a separate git repo (which I could then pull from for updates), or put just the changes into a subtree of starport/Config and install with make and rsync. I eventually settled on the latter, because that's what I'm doing with all my other config files. This also lets me install things differently on different systems.

Only one link, to Irregular Webcomic! #3198, which marks the end of an era.

1029 Sa
  * awake 6am; did back exercises under the covers where it's warm. 
  * up 7:30; W=193.2; drugs, nose, teeth, light
  @ Irregular Webcomic! #3198 end of an era - it's becoming a blog
  * s4s:  Bigger On the Inside (of course)
  * 15min: puttering.  Found the Little Red Song Book (published by IWW)
    consolidating boxes and other clutter in office, bedroom, living room
  * Starport party 1029
  * now wearing my purple hat with floppy ears.
  * some work on nagios.  Trying to decide how best to organize it; currently
    a separate git repo under users/starport/Config/Imports
  * Songs so far: Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, When I Go, Mushrooms,
    Banks of Marble
  * made 2 batches of chili -- hot (from scratch) and warm (kit)
    The hot batch had sereno peppers
  $ HSX:  $20 from (coworker) Jake for copy #CF
  * got nagios/nrpe running on nova, nrpe working on stargate
  * splat ~midnight