Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to montemplar!!! Have a great one!!

GCS Operating Note: recycling, laundry

Grand Central Starport Operating Note: Recycling, laundry

In the future, anyone caught leaving bottles to be recycled on top of the washing machine will have to deal with a grumpy Bear, and may have to spend 20 minutes on their knees sweeping glass fragments off the laundry-room floor. The same goes for anyone stupid enough to start the washer without first making sure there is nothing breakable on top of it.

Why, yes; this does include me. Why do you ask? (Left as an exercise for the reader.)

About GSONs: In the spirit of the old SAILON (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab Operating Note) memos, the Grand Central Starport Operating Notes will be an occasional series of household-related mini-rants, suggestions, housekeeping tips, and occasional praise. Members of other households may find them useful.

Better...

Despite temperature in the very high 90's during my walk, I've been having a pretty good day. At least my knees didn't give me much trouble.

I've managed to do three loads of laundry since last night, and got my presentation for tomorrow afternoon finished at last (in OOo Impress). The seeming obstacle from yesterday evening turned out to be a non-problem, if not a feature, once I got things properly figured out.

The one problem is that now I'll have to actually build the damned thing, and run some actual experiments on it. And, as I think I've mentioned, it's way out of my field: electronics, not programming. Luckily, I have coworkers who are much better at orking that particular cow, and one of them is already listed as a coinventer.

Actually, I'm not the one with problems. Our IP manager is going to have to find me a lawyer who can actually understand the thing.

Did I mention that our sysadmin wants to learn guitar? And that his office is across the hall from mine? We tracked down a chord chart via Google, and I've taught him D, A7, and G. Other folks have showed him Am, Em, and G7, and C. He's made more progress in three days than either of my kids did in a week, so there's hope. Thursday or Friday we'll head over to Gryphon so he can get some new strings, a tuner, and a book.

Gryphon is still dangerously close to the Palo Alto Fry's. The only thing that could possibly make it worse is if they were further apart but still within walking distance: right now I have to decide whether I want a walk or a shopping expedition.

Two weeks from now...

...I'll be up in Portland attending the opening keynotes of OSCon. Eep!

I don't think I know anyone in Portland anymore; they've all moved up to Seattle.