Zathras' Great Machine

More miscellany

OK, who's the knucklehead who decided to wait until January damn sixth to release the fourth season of Babylon Five on DVD?! Apart from the fact that this breaks their previously-established pattern of releasing a season once every three or four months, it also means that they're going to completely miss sales for the holiday season. *grumble* Compared to all that, the inconvenience to me seems almost trivial. Almost.

Several items on eBay right now that are doing well, or were -- checked them again just now and discovered that eBay is having some kind of problem with their servers, and two of my items aren't showing up. Bad timing for that, too, since my auctions end today. I hope they get it straightened out, and soon -- this could be costing me money. It's also Sunday again, of course, which means that it's time to get the digital camera and list some more items. Whee. :^)

I brought the server home from the office yesterday and determined that everything is working fine... as I had suspected, though, it doesn't have a sounda card, so I bought one on eBay -- after which Denise reminded me that she could have tossed a spare my way. Oops. Sometimes I forget about her Big Pile O' Parts... I'll have to keep that in mind in the future.

Anyway, the server isn't much anymore by today's standards, of course -- it's a 1999 model -- but it should still be useful for various matters. In particular, it's got two hard drives, so I think I'm going to install Windows on one of them and Linux on the other.

Talked briefly to Denise yesterday about a column she's been reading in a local paper about a Mac worshipper... seems this guy is selling one of his old Macs and in the ad is calling it something like "the greatest appliance ever known in the history of the universe". Err, guy -- I agree that the Mac is a better OS, but jeez, c'mon -- it's a friggin' computer, not a religious relic toward which all the faithful must genuflect. And it's not as though the Mac OS is perfect, either... what the hell is up with my notebook not storing my WiFi password in my keychain anyway?

Shaggy's got a new job that he hates -- as a telemarketer, of all things. *snicker* Well, anything to keep the bills paid.

Haven't heard from Chad in a while. He said he was thinking about coming down for a weekend visit, but I guess that must have fallen thru. Well, between juggling school and a part-time job, I guess I can understand that. I hope he hasn't been laid off from his IT position at the newspaper. I'd hate to think he might consider going back to delivering pizzas for a living, especially since when he was doing that, he got robbed at gunpoint twice. Ugh.

And so begins a lazy Sunday morning... need to finish up this blog entry, get the coffee started (Blue Mountain coffee, this morning, not chai tea -- seems to be a Sunday thing for me) then work on some letters, starting with Denise, then some others who have been patiently waiting. :^)

Posted by Zathras at October 12, 2003 09:09 AM