Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to tetralizard!!!! Have a great one!!

[trainwreck] My car ate it.

I really like my Honda. It's the third one I've had, and the third to go past 105,000 miles. Which is where it needs a new timing belt, shortly after the 100K warranty expires. I knew about that, and rather expected the front brakes would need replacing. I'd forgotten about the radiator hoses and thermostat.

*sigh* I have a pretty, light-blue Kia for a loaner.

It'll be over $2500 by the time I pick it up (hopefully) later today. I decided not to go to Fry's on the way to work yesterday.

On a more positive note, I raised my 401K percentage and catch-up amount, which is something I'd been putting off for six months or so. So I can give myself a virtual pat on the back for that one.

OTGH, said 401K is still worth less than it was a half-decade ago. I would have come out way ahead stuffing the money into a mattress. The image of my coming into the bank with an ataché case full of bedbug-infested C-notes is mildly entertaining.

Done yesterday (20100409 Fr)

( raw notes )

A pretty good day, though an expensive one. Still, I got to tick a couple of biggies off my to.do list, and took a nice (if short) walk before going home. (Lunchtime, my usual walk time, was taken up by a trip to Kaiser to pick up a prescription. It could have waited until Monday, but...)

Data entry for the check register has been done; I still have to do the credit-card receipts.

My old Thinkpad A30, Argo, is completely unusable after upgrading to Karmic; it needs either a memory upgrade (it's currently something like 128M) or a much lighter-weight OS. Probably both, although simply dropping Gnome in favor of ctwm would probably help a lot.

Lots of links under the cut, as usual. More on the UK's draconian IP law (Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an "Intellectual Property address" -- you can't make this stuff up!), and Jane Yolen's random thoughts on writing and on children’s books.

Too good not to share:

Atheist Barbie - Boing Boing