The weekend so far

[mdlbear]

Yesterday was our annual June party. It was lightly attended, but there was plenty of good conversation. As usual, the flower_cat held court in the living room, where the conversation is wide-ranging and occasionally raucous, while I stayed mostly in the office where it's quieter and the talk is geekier -- mostly about computers and music.

Sold two more preorders.

I spent Saturday morning and much of the afternoon reconfiguring Dantooine, the 800MHz nini-ITX box that I had been using as a workstation before I built Trantor, as the new print server and Linux client machine, the latter so that guests would have something to browse with. I really need to ditch the old 17" Hitachi CRT -- anybody want a nice boat anchor monitor? Showing its age a bit, but still very functional.

Configuring the printer went well, though it took me a while to figure out that the PPD files in the hpij package were newer than the ones in hplip, which was installed by default. I worked on system admin rather than the audio editing because I wanted something that was easier to interrupt as people arrived at the party.

Managed to squeeze in a short (2-mile) walk at about 4:30; the logistics just didn't work out for a longer walk in the morning.

Comments

[smalltowndad.livejournal.com]

A two-mile walk logged, productive, and awake: all before 8:00 a.m.

Not bad, not bad at all!

I do well to do the "awake" part, as a rule.

[mdlbear]

I should edit to make it clear that the morning productivity was all yesterday morning. Haven't done much today besides backups and catch-up posting.

[smalltowndad.livejournal.com]

I feel better now. :D

Odd, how someone else being as -- laid back? -- relaxed? -- unhyper?? -- as oneself makes one feel better about one's own, ah, philosophical approach to task lists and demands.

That sounded 'way too British, but fixing it would probably only devolve it.