Friday August 22, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_34
The weather was pleasant - warm with a light breeze. Well, "light" for where we live. :)
I started a new notebook at Work. Apparently, I do not attend very many meetings where I take notes anymore. My first six notebooks each covered as much as a Quarter: six notebooks for June 2006 - Sept 2007. My seventh notebook covers 11 months.
Cool. One of the groups I do work for gave me an Amazon certificate as a thank you. Nice!
Did you notice that Wednesday was a special date, at least in Europe? It was 20/08/2008.
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Sunday August 17, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_33
The weather was lovely. Warm but not hot. Light wind, clear skies.
Raven's dental appt was last week. They did one extraction. Canines treated, not pulled! Now we have to learn to brush and apply "anti-plaque gel."
Lots of TWiki work with Rich. We're pushing the envelope with FOREACH, SEARCH, IFDEFINED and CALC. Some very interesting results, balanced by some very frustrating problems. Think of it as a Learning Experience.
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Saturday August 2, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_31
The weather was pleasant, neither hot nor cold. WIndy, of course, but that's to be expected.
I'm doing more TWiki support help at the Job. I enjoy that immensely.
I've also been doing a lot of TWIki work at home to help Rich with a project. I'm learning new things. I can even mention them on my status report for Work as "Professional Development". :)
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Sunday July 27, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_30
The weather has been cool in the mornings, warm in the afternoons.
We tried a new Halal restaurant for dinner on Sunday night. Saturday was their first day open. They'd had a lot of customers. They were running out of food!
The waitress needs to learn the menu better and she didn't add up the bill correctly. But the food was tasty. The lamb shwarma was really yummy, better than what we've had most places.
We'll give them a week or two to get settled and go back.
Rich suggested we stop by the trail on the way home on Monday night and take a half hour walk. So we did. Much fun but, Ouch. My left foot wants to start a blister. I soaked it when we got home.
Tuesday was the Tweetup in Half Moon Bay.
I offered a fellow Twittterer, @creativesage a ride. I picked her up at BART about 4:10 (perfect timing) after filling up the car with gas. We were back at the house at 4:20. Rich got home 10 minutes later and we headed to HMB.
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Saturday July 19, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_29
The weather was foggy and cooler this week, at least in the mornings.
I watched a pigeon building a nest in the wall of the building next door to our favorite diner. She'd found a gap in the screening (screening meant to, erm, keep out pigeons :) and was bringing bits of twig. I hope the man who runs the store next door doesn't notice and get the screen repaired.
My TWiki Twitter Reader is working offline, copied to the laptop. I read Twitter "back issues" on the train.
I had to tweak some settings the first morning but all was for the afternoon.
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Saturday July 12, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_28
The weather was hot again. I'm betting this is one of the warmest summers on record. It's certainly the hottest we can remember and we've been in this house 20 years.
I had a lovely holiday 3-day weekend that I turned into 4-day holiday by taking an extra PTO day on Monday. Also, I worked from home on Thursday and Tuesday. So... awesome relaxation! (Although, when I got back to Work on Tuesday, there was a lot of "stuff" in my Inbox. Gack!)
I worked on my Twitter feeder for twikifriends (using pyTwerp). It's working quite well.
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Saturday July 5, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_27
The weather was mostly nice but the fog rolled in on Thursday. The 4th was completely socked in.
Rich and I both worked from home on Thursday. That makes the long weekend feel even more relaxing.
We went out to lunch on Thursday and I had the largest pile of onion rings I think I've ever been served. No supper Thursday night!
The Camry needed a smog check for registration renewal. That's so much easier now with everything computerized. We can renew on the Web without mailing anything.
We took it down to Quality Tuneup on Thursday and had lunch while we waited for it to go through the process. We passed the check. Toyotas are good for that.
I did lots of TWiki work this week
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Saturday June 28, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_26
The hot weather broke last Saturday but it's been hazy and smoggy since then. There have been fires burning to the north and down the coast. Nasty.
California has been issued an emergency declaration and federal agencies have been ordered to assist in the firefighting efforts. Fire officials announced full containment of the Napa-Sonoma wild fire on Wednesday.
Most of the fiires were apparently caused by lightning.
We stopped at OSH before dinner last Saturday and bought a roll of turf. The kitties' lawn needed to be rejuvenated. The kitties were loving it to death.
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Saturday June 21, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_25
Another hot week, starting Wednesday. This is going to be a warm summer. By Friday it was 87 in our living room. I turned on alll the ceiling fans, opened all the windows, and drew the blinds on windows that don't open. The cats melted into various furry puddles.
We had Dim Sum on Sunday with friends from the East Bay. They agree with us that the Hong Kong Flower Lounge in Millbrae has excellent Dim Sum.
Good food. Too much food. Full to bursting but happy.
Something new this time - pastry hedgehogs! Three of them, artfully "carved" with prickles and two black sesame seeds for eyes. Nestled on a plate of deep-fried rice noodle "grass".
Fun with TWiki: I worked out some interesting tricks with INCLUDEs for table rows this week - how to create a table from which individual rows can be pulled to stick into other tables.
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Sunday June 15, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_24
The weather was warm for several days. The fog and wind are back now.
As of June 12, I have been at this Job for 2 years. That's the longest at any Company since 1997 and the longest in a particular job since I'm not sure when.
I've been wandering through Twitter, exploring.
I found several new people to follow, including @Raqhun, @BluegrassPoet, and @Judith12.
Lyrical people.
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Saturday June 7, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_23
The weather has been sunny, blue, and warm.
Are you following the Mars Phoenix in on Twitter? 19,000 people are!
Tonight, go outside and look up at the crescent moon. That "star" just above the moon isn't a star, it's Mars. I'll be waving :)
--- twitter.com/MarsPhoenix
Sometime back, Rich and I were shopping at Beverages and More and I picked up a collection of various "sodypop" drinks. This week, Rich opened "Capn Eli's Bllueberry Pop". Wow. It's Very Blueberry. Quite tasty. We need to get some more of that.
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Saturday May 31, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_22
Three Weeks since my last Weekly Wrapup. The days have contained much fuss and bother, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing much worth sharing, really.
I called Mom to say Happy Mothers' Day. She said they'd taken the Brownies to the Community Theatre to see a production called "Queen Moya and the Magic Cupcake".
We had a heat wave, several days of Quite Warm weather followed by the fog coming in and the default breeze coming back.
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Saturday May 10, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_19
The weather was Windy (Duh. It's May)
Rich was away for the weekend, visiting his dad. The cats and I cocooned together.
On Saturday. Bebop jumped onto the table by the couch. The table shifted, pulling the wirelss keyboard off onto the floor where two of the keys flew off when it hit. Ping ping! It took me quite a while to find the second key.
On the positive side, the floor is now cleaner behind the table. Lots of dust mice and paper balls (i.e. cat toys) removed. :)
And the keyboard is now stored in the cabinet with the DVD player.
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Saturday May 3, 2008
Treasures 2008_18
and at the bottom of the Spanish Main ...
and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
- Walter Elias Disney
These are my Treasures for the past week.
- Waking up to cuddly cats
- Our new wireless anemometer
- License plate on a limo: LAVISH 1
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Friday May 2, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_18
The weather was lovely, with wind speeds ranging from 1.3 mph to 15 according to our new wireless anemometer (installed Tuesday morning.)
We had a small flood on Sunday. A fresh water bottle apparently leaked. Five gallons of water soaked into the rug in the downstairs room before I realized what was happening. Ooh. Splugh.
Good news, no wood subfloor down there. It's concrete with linoleum tile over top.
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Saturday April 26, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_17
Happy 25th Anniversary to Rich and me this week. W00t!The weather started out WINDY, but ended calm. Unfortunately, the wind ate the giant pinwheel we had in front of the house. :(
I've ordered a wireless anemometer to replace it. It won't be pretty but it may hold up longer. As a bonus, we'll know the wind speed, temp, and wind chill factor.
We had rain on Tuesday night. Not so usual for April.
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Saturday April 19, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_16
Interesting weather this week. It started out WARM. 80 F in the house! We opened windows; there was a slight breeze. That helped. By Sunday evening, the fog was rolling in. Then, by week's end, the wind picked up. FWOOSH! FWOOM! We usually don't get this until May.
Saturday April 12, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_15
The weather has been cool in the mornings, warm in the afternoons, and windy at night.
April is Boston Creme pie month at Bakers' Square. Boston Cream is my favorite "cake". Bakers' Square makes an especially good version. The bottom layer is chocolate.
Our hot tub has a leak somewhere. Rich has been trying to find it and fix it. So far, no luck. Sigh.
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Saturday April 5, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_14
The weather continues chilly and windy. On Tuesday morning I saw frost on rooftops as the train went by. The pinwheel we have installed in front of the house has been spinning too fast to see any colors.
I had a meeting on Tuesday (a day when I usually work from home) so I switched my second telecommuting day to Thursday this week. That gave me two work-from-home days in a row. The end of the week was very relaxing, but Monday - Wednesday was tiring. (It's a 70 min. commute each way).
Speaking of Work... The Company has a tendency to do crazy internal marketing schemes. This week's scheme involved scattering hundreds of flyers, each the size of a dollar bill, all over the floors. My thoughts (and those of other employees) ranged from "why are we littering?", to "I thought we were trying to be greener?", to "Oooh. OSHA incident just waiting to happen."
I had an interesting time explaining to the janitor who was servicing the restroom. No, today is not a holiday. No, they aren't special. Actually, I'm not sure what they mean.
What WERE they THINKing?
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Saturday March 29, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_13
The weather was cool and windy with some rain on Friday evening.
I've been finding and filling gaps in our installation on the new server — mostly missing Perl modules with a few Apache glitches for that extra bit of fun. Ugh.
Quote (from a co-worker)
As in so many other areas of life, a bug's age will advance with apparently unstoppable frequency...Ain't it the truth. ...
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Saturday March 22, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_12
The weather was chilly this week and Very Windy. Brrrr.
Squirrel was very bouncy on Saturday morning. The Crunchy Bowl was Empty! I went out to the living room and he was so excited. He Bounced into the air and turned and Bounced into the kitchen. Look! Look! The Bowl is Empty!
Last week we decided to upgrade cfcl.com to new hardware. On Saturday, we drove into SF to buy a G5 from someone who was selling it on craigslist.
The seller lives near the Great Highway. We were early, so we parked at the beach and watched the parasailors and the kites. Wow! Neat!
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Sunday March 16, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_11
The weather was mostly pleasant, with some very foggy days. Friday night, it began to rain.
It's Girl Scout Cookie Time. The Brownies are in front of Longs Drugs and the Juniors are in front of Mollie Stones. Sorry girls, I already bought my cookies.
We went to Todai for lunch on Rich's birthday.
When we got home, I grabbed cats and headed off for a good nap.
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Monday March 10, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_10
The weather continues to be springy and pleasant. March does not come in like a lion in Northern Coastal California.
I returned my bad hard drive for a replacement. This time I'm going with Firewire, not USB. I've also greatly improved my backup strategy!
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Saturday March 1, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_09
The weather has been springy - warm days and foggy evenings, lots of wind. Blossoms are everywhere (often blowing!). When it's warm, the air smells wonderful.
We've moved SpamAssassiin processing off the delivery host and onto our front-end "email toaster". I think that's an improvement.
Whoever discovers the cure for spam deserves to be a gazillionaire.
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Saturday February 23, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_08
The weather was nice... followed by drippy. It started raining on Tuesday.
We had too many hardware and software travails this week.
On Sunday, Rich put together a Mac OS X system for a friend of his. He tried one box that simply didn't work. He went through a couple of disk drives. He tested this and experimented with that.
The good news is that the friend had a PowerMac G4 he'd been given, so the box stopped being an issue. Rich eventually did find a drive that worked. It just took far too long.
Then we had to troubleshoot the machine that stopped working after Rich had used it it to test the various drives... that turned out to be a cabling error. All more trouble than we needed.
But that was just for starters.
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Sunday February 17, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_07
The weather has been springy. The ornamental plums have started bursting out in pink blossoms.
My schedule was unusual this week. I typically work from home on Tuesdays but I had a scheduled meeting this week. I tried to reschedule, but the other people were booked tightly, so I obliged and swapped my work-from-home day for Wednesday.
Of course, the meeting was postponed at the last minute. No one could figure out how to contact me. So... sigh.
Note to self: pay more attention to the urgency of the meeting than to its potential interest value when rearranging schedules.
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Saturday February 9, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_06
The weather was fair this week. Foggy in the morning, pretty in the afternoon. Spring weather starts in February here. However, this year the ornamental plums are late.
I've been doing a lot of work for our home TWiki. Miscellaneous magic. Unfortunately, uncovering a bug or two.
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Saturday February 2, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_05
The weather was wet. During a brief non-rainy period, Rich cleaned out the roof gutters with the pressure washer. Strange noises. Cats were not amused.
I looked in the Camry for Rich's misplaced rain hat. I didn't find the hat but I did find 2 inches of standing water in the back. Ugh. Pump and mop.
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Sunday January 27, 2008
Treasures 2008_04
the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
-- From "The Wonder Years" (television)
These are my Treasures for the past two weeks.
- Lots of snuggles with the cats this week.
- Oooh. Aaah. Droooooool. The new MacBook Air is highly desirable.
- Bacon and tomato sandwiches on sourdough bread.
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Friday January 25, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_04
It's been raining for most of the week. I've enjoyed watching the weather widget on my desktop. Occasionally it changes to "partly sunny" but that doesn't last very long. Mostly it's been showing rain.
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Saturday January 19, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_03
The weather was chilly but clear.
Ouch. I lost one of my websites in last week's disk problems. The good news: it was backed up. The bad news: it took a while to find and restore. But we're back on the air. Things were scary there for a while.
Rich headed off to visit his Dad this week. It's been me and the cats. Purrr.
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Saturday January 12, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_02
The weather was mostly grey, foggy, and/or wet. The big storm continued with heavy rain early in the week but not as much wind..
We discovered a disk problem on our primary server last Friday. :-( We spent much of Saturday restoring all of the data onto a new drive.
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Sunday January 6, 2008
Weekly Wrap-up 2008_01
Clear, clear, cold, clear, cloudy, RAIN!
Happy New Year!
New Year's Eve was, as always, quiet for us. We stay home, drink eggnog, and wait for the fireworks at midnight.
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Saturday December 29, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_52
This was the last full week of 2007...
The weather was chilly this week, with temps in the 40s (F). That's unusual for where we live. We also had another couple of nights with rain and a bunch of foggy evenings.
I put together a zip archive of my November TWiki Meetup presentation. That only took a month. :-(
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Friday December 21, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_51
The weather was mostly clear, occasionally chilly, with rain mid-week. I woke a few times to the sound of rain in the night on Wednesday. Nice.
I received a nice squidgly fleece warmup as a Company Holiday gift. Very nice. Black microfleece with a grey stripe and the company name tastefully embroidered.
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Sunday December 16, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_50
The weather has been chilly. I switched to a warmer coat and have been turning on the little space heater in my home office. I also bought myself a new pair of gloves.
I woke up my Pleo while the cats Watched with Very Big Eyes.
Pleo also went to work with me.
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Sunday December 9, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_49
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.'We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September'
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.Oliver Herford
It's been chillier. Rich suggested I might want to look at getting an electric blanket. So we went down to Target and found a nice one. I only need a twin-sized (just for me, not for the whole bed). Yum.
I've been turning it on a couple of hours before I go to bed. It makes the sheets nice and warm.
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Monday December 3, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_48
End of November. The weather has been chilly.
I did a bunch of Sys Admin stuff this week. We now have (once again) only one TWiki installation on CFCL. It's updated to v. 4.12. I merged the "Vicki's TWiki" into the main TWiki, made some subwebs... fought and trounced a buglet or two.
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Sunday November 25, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_47
The weather was pretty: blue sky, stripey clouds, cool.
Two days off from Work this week! Four-day weekend. Woo!!
There was a chartreuse green 1956 Nash Metropolitan at the curb when we were having breakfast on Saturday. Rich and I went out to admire it. When we came back in, we learned that the owner was eating breakfast at a table just inside the door.
Handsome car, sir!
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Saturday November 17, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_46
Some rain this week. More fog.
Note: A king-sized bed will hold 2 humans and 3 cats but the comfort of the humans depends on the order of who gets into bed first and lies where. When one of the cats gets there first and lies diagonally across the center...
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Saturday November 10, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_45
In November(From Fall poems at CanTeach.)
Dark comes soon.
We turn on the lights
In the afternoon.
The weather was... autumnal. Lots of morning fog.
Rich installed Mac OS X Leopard on both laptops. We'll try it for a while before braving the desktop installation. . The menu bar is no longer transparent as it was in the betas (phew!) and the new dock is cute.
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Monday November 5, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_44
End of October
The sleepy brown woods seem to
Nod down their heads to the Winter.
- Dan Fogelberg
We've had a lot of fog.
Rich has started taking the train to and from his Job. We can ride together for his leg of the trip.
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Sunday October 28, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_43
The weather was a bit cool but pretty all week.
Harry Homeowner (Rich's alter-ego) put boards on the feet of our teak coffee table and we put that on top of the pine coffee table to make a two-level thing at one end of the screenporch. Now the far end of the porch is less crowded and we can get to the windows to open them.
The cats approve of the new arrangement.
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Friday October 19, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_42
It rained one day this week.
Up at 7:30 on Saturday morning We got ready to go and headed down to the diner for an omelette. Then we walked around the neighborhood for half an hour and then I took Rich to the airport. He was flying to Denver for a few days - a high-end audio show and a visit with friends.
I tripped over a cool feature in the vim editor. I was typing a comment (starting with #) and the line got long and broke to wrap (a setting I set). vim automatically put a # at the beginning of the next line.
Wow. Real DWIM.
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Saturday October 13, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_41
It rained again, this week. First on Tuesday, all through the night. Then again for most of Friday. It really came down on Friday. It's difficult for me to work when it's raining. I'd rather be curled up with a cat or four.
I've been poking around the web, looking at Twitter tools. I found an RSS feeder (twitterfeed) so I can automatically feed my weblog headlines to Twitter.
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Saturday October 6, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_40
The weather was mostly blue and pretty, cool in the evenings and warm in the afternoons, except for Monday, which was grey and gloomy.
Our favorite grocery store is undergoing a major remodel. ech! This week, all of the front windows are boarded over. It's plywood, inside, from wall to wall and floor to ceiling. I'm afraid I won't be shopping there until the windows are back. It's claustrophobic and a bit creepy.
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Sunday September 30, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_39
It's officially Fall. The weather has been lovely, sunny and blue, but sunrise is later and later. I hate waking up in the dark. I've started setting my "sun alarm".
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I have a new, light-weight, portable hard drive. Yes, that's it in the picture to the right. It's the size of a (small) stack of 3x5 cards.
Rich wanted to upgrade his 40 GB iPod. I had a 60 GB iPod that I mostly use as an external hard drive. So I upgraded to a 160 GB drive (USB 2; bus-powered) and Rich will use my iPod. We both got a great deal. This was my first week using it. For some reason two of my links were broken. Perhaps aliases don't work when copied? How very odd. Otherwise, iTunes played. Email and IM work. Everything seems good. No other issues. |
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Monday September 24, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_38
It was extremely windy and "nippy" on Wednesday. At the train station, a woman was sheltering from the wind INSIDE the station elevator, preventing the doors from closing. How rude!
On Saturday, it rained. Wow. We had a light shower at about 6pm the night before, then it started to rain steadily sometime in the night (I woke up and heard it).
I woke up Saturday morning at about 7:20 and lay in bed, loving on Bebop and listening to the rain. Rain in September is unusual where we live.
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Monday September 17, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_37
The weather was nice. Windy. Cool. Sunny and Blue.
My group at the Job moved last Friday so Monday was move-in day. Confusion, chaos, and noise. I'm SO glad I didn't have to move.
The new "bullpen" areas are large, open, and suboptimal. I feel sorry for the people who are in one of them. (Some people like it; that's ok. But some really don't and that's not good.)
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Monday September 10, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_36
The weather was nicer this week. Not as hot.
This was the week of my sister's birthday. Happy Birthday Sister.
We had brunch on Sunday at a Guatemalan restaurant on Mission Street in San Francisco. Unfortunately, we got there at 10:30 and they don't open until 11:00. We thought we'd take a walk around the neighborhood for half an hour.
Remind me never to think this again. That neighborhood is decidedly ugly at 10:30 on a Monday morning. Nothing is open. It's dirty and locked up. Also, Monday is trash day and it stinks. Ugh.
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Monday September 3, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_35
(two weeks)We had a heat wave. Yeeps! There were two Spare The Air days.
I took all the keys off my keyboard and cleaned out the cat hair and crumbs. Unfortunately, when I put it back together it didn't work properly. So I took all of the keys off again. Maybe it got a little wet inside? (We've cleaned the keyboards this way before and never had this problem.)
In the meantime, I "borrowed" a keyboard from another machine. It's certainly convenient that we standardize — all of the keyboards in the house are the same.
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Monday August 20, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_33
(Two weeks)
The weather has still been mostly foggy with a few warm and sunny days.
Work was pretty bad there for a few days but I seem to be regaining control. Most of the week of the 6th is in my Journal but doesn't need to be shared with anyone else.
Rich's brother and sister-in-law came through town on a vacation trip heading to Cambria, CA. We had dinner with them at one of our favorite restaurants in Palo Alto.
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Tuesday August 7, 2007
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The weather was a bit less foggy. Perhaps we'll have more sun in August.
A group of geese flew over alongside the building where I work. I could see their tummies from the window by my cubicle. Honk.
There was a division meeting followed by an afternoon offsite. I didn't go. Because many of my co-workers did go, it didn't make a lot of sense for me to commute down to the Job. So I worked at home an extra day.
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Monday July 30, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_30
The weather was foggy. It's been a very foggy July.
There was another "incident" with CalTrain on Monday morning. We sat at Menlo Park for 20-30 minutes. We made it to Mtn View but after that I saw the train go north instead of south.
There are far too many of these "incidents". There has to be something we can do to keep people away from the tracks.
I've been watching carefully for mousies at the station in the afternoon. They're very cute, very small, and very fast.
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Sunday July 22, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_29
Catching up... three weeks of July to cover.
The weather has been largely warm (when its not foggy :-). We had one delightful out-of season rainstorm at night. I woke up to it, then lay in bed and listened. Mmmmmm.
We did the July 3rd Fireworks at Stanford as we've done for several years now. We ate leftovers at home, then drove down at 7:15.
I missed the turn (they're doing construction and things looked dfferent.) and we got lost; ended up on Serra almost to ECR. I fought my way back to Junipero Serra and we tried again, stopping at the map this time. Left turn on Mayfield. 50 yards to the parking lot.
We found a good spot and I read for a while. Rich lent me his keyfob flashlight when it got too dark.
The fireworks started at 9:45. Boom. Whistling weasels. Firefalls. Flares that exploded into balls of sparks.
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Tuesday July 3, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_26
The weather was lovely.
CalTrain had a very bad day on Thursday. First they had a bunch of "control points" fail on the line — the things that set the track indicators and signal lights. They were setting things by hand.
Then, in the afternoon, the 365 northbound hit a car on the tracks in Palo Alto. The 365 is the train I take if I leave work at 4:11 instead of 4:30. (I wasn't on the 365 on Thursday).
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Monday June 25, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_25
The weather was grey for several days.
I've been looking into web=based calendar apps that support iCal format calendar subscription. The two most promising are Thyme (pretty and powerful) and Monket Calendar (pretty and free).
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Tuesday June 19, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_24
The weather was warm. It's been nice to come home to our house and open windows.
Rich went into WWDC every day, attending sessions and learning new things. Lots of new things in Leopard.
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Monday June 11, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_23
The weather was summery — warm, alternating with foggy.
Rich got a reduced-price admission to Apple's WWWDC (next week). Then he thought he ought to have an iBook to run the Developer seed of Leopard...
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Monday June 4, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_22
The weather has been predominately grey.
Monday was the Memorial Day Holiday (Observed), so no work. We had a quiet day at home.
Tuesday was my usual day to work from home, so the weekend segued back into Work in a nice, quiet, way.
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Monday May 28, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_21
The weather was alternately gray and sunny.
Our group at Work was supposed to move this week, but now that's on indefinite hold, so I don't have to pack...
Rich had minor surgery to repair a small hernia this week. They do this as an outpatient procedure now. One of the nurses told Rich that, when she started doing this (10 or 20 years ago), he'd probably have been in the hospital for a week. Yeeps!
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Sunday May 20, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_20
The weather was pleasant.
Rich and I installed black sticky-back foam sheets in our tv cabinet to reduce the glare from the screen. They work quite well.
My Dad had minor surgery this week. Mom wrote to say he's feeling good and they were going out to dinner.
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Sunday May 13, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_19
We had a brief heat wave this week. It lasted for two days.
Rich and I tried a new restaurant called Au's Kitchen. They opened this week. It's Cantonese Chinese, quite good. The wontons in the Wor Won Ton soup are more like siu mai. Very solid, packed with pork and shrimp, the wonton wrap simply holds everything together; very good. There are some unusual things on the menu. The lemongrass porkchop was tasty.
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Tuesday May 8, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_18
The weather was typical for spring, varying sunny days with rainy ones.
Rich installed the Mac mini in the living room, hooked up to the new monitor. Wow! We bought a wireless mouse and a wireless keyboard. This is so cool!
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Sunday April 29, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_17
The weather was nice.
There were some interesting birds in the street in front of the house this morning. They were a bit bigger than blackbirds, similar coloring (but with brown streaks), and moved like quail. They were finding and eating worms left by the recent rain.
According to the bird book, they're starlings
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Tuesday April 24, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_16
The weather was mostly good. Windy. Rain on Thursday. The sun keeps rising earlier and setting later. This is my favorite time of year.
I joined the "after lunch stair walk" at work. One of my co-workers tries to do a daily walk, up to and around the 3rd floor twice, up to and around the 3rd floor twice, and then twice around the building outside. He's getting people to go with him. It's good exercise, although (huff) the 3rd floor (puff) is a challenge .
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Tuesday April 17, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_15
The weather was variable. We had some rain, some clear days, lots of wind...
Rich helped me put together a "cubicle curtain". We bought a large, tight spring and a length of dowel rod. Rich mounted the spring on a board and attached magnet tape to the underside. The dowel slips into the end of the spring and I can hang a curtain on the dowel. because of the spring, if anyone walks into it, it will move.
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Monday April 9, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_14
The weather has been lovely...
I moved cubicles at The Job. The new location is quite nice. I have a window (tra la) and plenty of Natural Light. It's still noisy, unfortunately; there are some chatty people just over the wall and we're also near the largest conference room. There was a big meeting on Monday (with applause, whistles, cheering... Sheesh)
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Monday April 2, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_13
The weather was pleasant and springy.
Rich and I went into SF on Tuesday to the SF Perl Users Group meeting. Peter Thoeny was talking about Wikis in general and TWiki in particular.
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Monday March 26, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_12
The weather was variable, We had some rain this week.
The week was variable too. Some days were good. Some days were bad. Issues with the Job... Not much I can share.
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Monday March 19, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_11
The weather continues to be springy, varying from cool to warm, occasionally (once) almost too warm!
We had dinner at our favorite pizzeria in The City on Monday night. Because Rich likes mushrooms and I don't, we always ask for all of the mushrooms on only half of the pizza. This time, someone goofed and put mushrooms on the entire pizza and double mushrooms on one half.
Ick!
But they were very nice about the problem and quickly made me a small pizza with no mushrooms anywhere.
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Monday March 12, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2006_10
The weather was pleasant and spring-like. Sunday was quite warm.
The train home on Monday was 10 minutes late because it had to work around a disabled train to the south. That meant our northbound train picked us up on the southbound side of the track. Weird! However, they recently installed a loudspeaker system at this station and so we were told to move over to the other side to catch the train. That's better than hoping we'll notice a change to the scrolling sign boards.
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Monday March 5, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2006_09
The week started out drizzly and wet, although there were some clear days too. But Monday was one of those days when I was just as happy not to drive to the Job - especially after listening to my coworkers' stories of their commutes, e.g the one who lives 6 miles away and narrowly missed being part of two (or was it three?) accidents on his way in.
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Tuesday February 27, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_08
The weather was variable - blue when it wasn't rainy. There was a rainbow to the north of the train station one morning. I watched it till it faded.
Monday was President's Day. I'm working for a company that takes this as a holiday, so I had a three-day weekend. The downside of this was that we forgot to take the trash to the curb for the Monday morning pickup. That's not much of a downside. :-)
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Tuesday February 20, 2007
Weekly Wrap-up 2007_07
The weather was springy. Springs can be wet. The weekend was warmish and lovely.
Work has been...
work. Other than that, nothing I want to share publicly...
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