Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to fairyshaman!! Have a good one!!

Going, going,...

... not gone yet, but getting there. Even as I type, a stack of 50 address labels is slowly grinding its way through the print queues (and getting stuck somewhere). They'll need to be checked against the lists to make sure I haven't already shipped them or handed them out in a con (I know one or two slipped through). Then I have to go back through the list to make sure I didn't miss anyone (and I'm pretty sure there are one or two recent PayPal payments I haven't processed). And I have to compare them with the list of signing instructions and quantities.

They were generated using a sequence of egregious hacks, but thanks to perl, emacs, and glabels, they just might get printed. (OTOH there seems to be some problem with the print server, which is admittedly underpowered for the job. I'll deal with it tonight.)

But I expect I'll have the rest of the pre-orders shipped by sometime next week.

I hate it when I do that...

Spent all morning, some of the afternoon, and a couple of hours this evening trying to figure out why my inkjet printer wasn't printing. The fact that xpdf also wasn't working suggested that the problem was a missing font, but after I installed a batch of fonts, changed the fonts on the labels, re-installed the drivers, and rebooted a couple of times I began to get suspicious. And then there was the fact that it wasn't printing a test page, which clearly didn't depend on what secondary fonts were installed.

Turned out the root filesystem was full. Including /tmp, of course. A simple apt-get clean got back 2.1GB. Dumb bear.

I have shipping labels now.