Well, I went to work feeling pretty crappy this morning, but the day at the office was reasonably good -- workload good without being overwhelming, and not too many people at the office. I even left a little early today, figuring I certainly deserve it.
The war against the bathtub finally seems to be finished. After assaulting it on my own for the past several weeks, with varying levels of success, I finally left a message with the landlord on Monday to have someone come in to fix it. As I was on my way out of the house this morning, the property manager told me they'd be taking care of it today. When I got home, I found that my bathtub was, indeed, fully functional, and they even cleaned up all the yuck that had been building up since I first started having problems. Very satisfying... I'm really looking forward to my shower tomorrow morning.
In other news, I backed up the Hieronymous Bosch last night, and I did a test restore this evening. Much to my relief, it worked, which I was really worried about because when I tried it on Sunday during the Big Migration, it crapped out. So I'm in good shape for the moment, but like Moggy, I need to modify my backup routine. Right now, I'm backing up to a single session on an external hard drive, and while that's better than not backing up at all, it's still somewhat risky, as she has just pointed out on her blog. I'll have to do a little research and figure something out.
The new notebook is working out quite well so far, and I hope to finish up my "dry run" of everything in the next couple of days or so. I still need to test how it handles external monitors and FireWire devices, and I also need to experiment more with the CD-RW (damn, I hate optical drives, they always give me trouble).
Season premiere of "Smallville" is on tonight -- who will save Clark from his class ring with the Red Kryptonite stone? Lana Lang, I would assume, but I wonder how she'll do it.
So according to the most recent polls, Arnold is probably going to win this coming Tuesday. It really is hard to take this whole thing seriously...
Posted by Zathras at October 1, 2003 06:55 PMIf you're following that $!#! Calif. elections then YOU NEED to see last Sunday's Doonesbury
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20030928
YEeeaaa! Look ma! 2 successful posts in less than 5 hrs. and a gazillion blogpage hits.
Posted by: Shaw at October 1, 2003 11:06 PM