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[mdlbear]

Got up earlyish (6am) this morning -- the flower_cat woke up coughing. The entire family has been fighting the cold/allergy/whatever post-nasal-drip-from-hell for the last couple of weeks; the Y.D. was out of school for two days, and crashed before I got home yesterday. Up until Monday I seem to have been the only one who's worked out a combination of drugs that controls it, so I've been moderately functional through the whole ordeal. The Y.D. got some good drugs (prescription cough syrup with dextromethorphan, chlorpheniramine malate, and phenylephrine -- spelling optional) on Monday, so she's back in operation. Better living through chemistry.

I only managed about 1/2 mile of walking yesterday; I started hacking about 10am and it was about 1pm by the time I looked up. I did finally get the touchscreen working rotated -- did you know that some Via video chipsets are rebranded S3 Savage chips rather than Unichrome? The X.org drivers don't seem to know either, but the kernel framebuffer driver is perfectly happy with it, so select the fbdev driver in xorg.conf and put savagefb into /etc/modules. It still doesn't seem to know whether it should be talking to the onboard LCD or the external VGA port -- I'm working on it.

Had a good practice session with Joyce last night. It'll work. The tentative setlist concentrates on songs that I think will work well with either three voices or two voices and flute. It's just a little bit darker than my usual -- not so much ose as thoughtful -- but there are still a couple of funny songs in there. Adjustments are still likely.

On the schedule for today is transferring my configuration to the other tablet; this turns out to be harder than one might like, but it's doable.