Why am I still at home this morning?

[mdlbear]

(8:30am) Power is still out at work -- at least on the circuit our router is plugged in to. Just as well that I'm going to be spending the morning taking my car in for an oilchange. I should really have powered down the two Linux boxen in my office before I left, but since they're backed up daily in several different places I'm not going to worry too much.

Next week I'm off to OSCon -- I'll be in Portland Tuesday afternoon through Saturday afternoon. (Best way to contact me will probably be email: I'll try to check mdlbear@gmail.com regularly. Both the conference and the hotel have net connections. My cell phone is 408-896-6133; please note that I never use text messaging and so will respond slowly, if at all.)

(9:55am) The car's likely to run me somewhere north of $400 by the time you add two new tires, an alignment job, and diagnosing the problem with the driver's side window to the oilchange it already needed. Power is still out at work.

I've been thinking again about getting a rolling duffel so that I can take my travel guitar (31" long) on plane trips. Still probably a bad idea; the duffels are awkward, wouldn't work well with my rolling briefcase, and in any case the travel guitar in its gig bag fits in the overhead rack. Looked briefly at some smaller travel guitars -- basically just six strings on a stick -- that might fit in a regular-size suitcase. About the price of two rolling duffels, but less than a car repair. It'll just have to wait, I guess.