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Jan. 23rd, 2005
A productive weekend, this, despite really only having Sunday afternoon to be productive with.
Saturday evening I enjoyed several wonderful wines and some equally wonderful food with family friends and introduced said friends to The Princess Bride for the first time - my mother's idea, and a good one.
Got home with a monitor (yay!), clean laundry, and a stack of blankets which seemed a mile high. Made my twin bed, which I'm contemplating sleeping in so I don't feel quite so much like my living room's the only room in the house. Set up the monitor and my old PC, which now has iTunes on it and overnight tonight will get a copy of my music library, so I can play music over the Airport Express and play WoW or some such on my laptop simultaneously. Additionally, I will eventually be able to log into the servers in the DMDC (Defense Manpower Data Center) from home using this, when the VPN setup starts working correctly... I think. I've begun to hear words like 'modem', which make me sad. If it comes to that, I'll have to do some hard thinking about this Cable thing I've already started getting used to, and whether I should get DSL and phone instead. Standard setup around here does seem to avoid cable like the plague - I see a lot of homes with a satellite dish instead. Probably because DSL is better and satellite is better, even though they're both more expensive.
My bedroom's now the only room with boxes scattered about - not that I've not still got stuff in boxes, just that the bedroom still has some boxes lying on the floor open. May deal with that tonight, but probably not. Things are settling in.
Remember, some loony came up with tomorrow being the worst day of the year by lying with statistics. Let's see if he's right.
Saturday evening I enjoyed several wonderful wines and some equally wonderful food with family friends and introduced said friends to The Princess Bride for the first time - my mother's idea, and a good one.
Got home with a monitor (yay!), clean laundry, and a stack of blankets which seemed a mile high. Made my twin bed, which I'm contemplating sleeping in so I don't feel quite so much like my living room's the only room in the house. Set up the monitor and my old PC, which now has iTunes on it and overnight tonight will get a copy of my music library, so I can play music over the Airport Express and play WoW or some such on my laptop simultaneously. Additionally, I will eventually be able to log into the servers in the DMDC (Defense Manpower Data Center) from home using this, when the VPN setup starts working correctly... I think. I've begun to hear words like 'modem', which make me sad. If it comes to that, I'll have to do some hard thinking about this Cable thing I've already started getting used to, and whether I should get DSL and phone instead. Standard setup around here does seem to avoid cable like the plague - I see a lot of homes with a satellite dish instead. Probably because DSL is better and satellite is better, even though they're both more expensive.
My bedroom's now the only room with boxes scattered about - not that I've not still got stuff in boxes, just that the bedroom still has some boxes lying on the floor open. May deal with that tonight, but probably not. Things are settling in.
Remember, some loony came up with tomorrow being the worst day of the year by lying with statistics. Let's see if he's right.