Random Access

Monday – 02 July 2007
I actually slept last night. Fairly well, at that. Of course, the pre-bed glass of Merlot probably didn’t hurt, either.

Yesterday was good… despite the 8:30 awakening. Perry called around 10 to invite me to coffee. I took him up on the offer. Then I indulged in a little bit of retail therapy at Old Navy. Yep… Old Navy.

Back home… to find out that Intrepid was having connection issues. They seem to have been tied to my firewall deciding to fire off a couple of terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) procedures. *grblsnrkx* I thought that I had taken care of most of them… until this morning. But that’s another story.

Back out to run some errands, have dinner with Kate, Perry and the kids and to visit the Garden of Sweden. Among other things, I picked up a couple of picture frames for two of my Rush concert tourbooks. I mounted and hung them… and they look pretty good, although I may need to look at getting different mattes – the Vapor Trails tourbook kind of gets lost/washes out in the white matte. I still need to get two more – one for R30 and one for the upcoming Snakes & Arrows tour. Out a little later for a drive and I ended the night with a book and the aforementioned glass of Merlot.

Today’s been good – as a welcome and refreshing change from doc reading and training videos, Jason walked me through some domain administration. It’s nice to actually be able to ask a question and get feedback (not to be confused with Feedback).

Stray Toasters

• Ultimate Team Cardboard Fortress Battle
• Spoiler Sport: Geoff Johns on Sinestro Corps
• There is now a second poster for Countdown. (Here’s the first poster, in case you missed it. Somehow.)
• Steampunk play based on Hackers
• 7% humidity
• 525,000 iPhones sold in first weekend
• …and with that in mind: iPhone + multitouch + goatse = arrghhhhh
• The Shrinking Violet/Atom Girl HeroClix makes me chuckle.
• Alabama Governor discovers global warming cure: Pray for rain

Namaste.

Sunday – 01 July 2007
I’m awake.

Most of you will read the above sentence and go “Well… DUH!”

• I was up at 8:30 this morning.
• It’s a Sunday morning on which I have NOTHING to do.
• I went to bed about 1:00.
• I was rather tired… and a bit cranky/surly when I went to bed.

I used to like sleep. I don’t (usually) require very much of it, but I enjoy sleeping in on weekends when I have nothing going on. Like today. And, on top of that, I’ve had some rather bizarre – and disconcerting – dreams lately. That hasn’t helped in the “good night’s sleep” department, either.

Blah.