Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to the lovely and talented quadrivium!!!! Have a great one, and I'll see you at Consonance!!!

Done yesterday (20100220 Sa)

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Apart from not taking a walk (the weather was cold, and raining on and off, but I could have walked if I'd really wanted to) it was a very good day. Productive, as I mentioned upstream in River: A following wind?

It started with a mysterious network outage. Having no idea when or whether it would end, I took it as a Strong Hint from the universe that I ought to finish configuring my updated gateway to talk to the new U-Verse connection. It took more work than I expected, because I hadn't updated my ShoreWall configuration files, and some things, especially in the rules file, are considerably different between Etch and Lenny. Before I had it working, the other connection was back and Colleen was awake.

I took the YD to an audition; she decided to bag it after hearing that she'd be expected in LA two or three times/week. Not while she's still in high school and living with us! I spent most of the rest of the afternoon getting the gateway back up and exploring the modem/router's configuration pages. Whee! DNS still isn't right.

I made a tasty dinner, and had a couple of very good, and productive, conversations via IM. And it looks as though Tempered Glass will have a gig at Orycon as well as NorWesCon. Colleen will definitely be coming with me to Ory, which is close enough to drive to.

And in the evening,... I'm gradually learning to connect a certain kind of intense physical reaction with, of all things, joy. Oh. More upstream, I think, later.

In connection with that, this post by haikujaguar on the difference between happiness and contentment seems particularly apropos:

Before I can speak, he says, "No, aunerai, it's not the same. Contentment is a state... you see, here is the noun form, veshem. But happiness is a moment. It can never be a state. One can be anil, "happy," but not exist there. It passes... that's normal."

It's from the "extras" page of The Admonishments of Kherishdar, which is wonderful!

So... yeah. Good day. Can't say as much for last night, which saw me awake between 3:30 and nearly 6, and sleeping until 10:45. But that, as they say, is another day.