Writer's Block: Happy birthday John Lennon!

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World peace? Perhaps when humans finally become extinct.

Done yesterday (20111008 Sa)

A good day. Pretty good? No, good. The YD actually came downstairs and asked to play a game of chess with me! That's huge -- she claims the last time we played was a decade ago. She's probably right.

I also took a walk -- the usual 3 miles along Los Gatos Creek. Afterwards I went shopping, and had a nice talk with the girl at checkout while waiting for them to turn up one of the items I wanted to purchase. That was a 32GB keychain drive for $40, which is about half the going price.

To whoever left a candid anonymous comment on yesterday's "Done Yesterday" post, THANK YOU very much. About what I expected. It's worth noting that the UBF is now kept out of the house by court order, so that one is taken care of. As for the other disgusting creatures, I'm thinking of Planet Orange or Clark, though I'll take suggestions. We've made a lot of progress on our own over the last six months.

I also took the problematic laptop drive out of the gateway and replaced it with an 8GB microSD card in a keychain drive. Saves a couple of watts -- I'm not complaining. It seems to be pretty slow, at least on boot-up. A SATA flash drive would be a lot faster, but they're still pricy and I don't need the capacity right now. Maybe not ever.

Down in the notes you'll find some links about the dark side of Steve Jobs' legacy; there are paragraph-long quotes if you're not sure you want to click through.

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