February 24, 2006 16:14

Oh man what a fantastic day. I've just spent 45 minutes on my deck with my shirt off catching some rays while reading up on this and that. It has been overcast all week, and rainy, but today that clouds broke and it has just been super-splendid.

The work level has been slow as I've been trying to dig information out of other people. It seems to take me days to get the information, but the level of detail is so substandard that it raises a whole lot more questions that then take more days to get. If I could get all the information in one sitting (which should be possible), then I would have had a usefully busy week. As it happens, I've had a very slow week, but this has allowed me to get a few other things done.

My taxes have been sorted out. My bill is a lot lower than I was planning for, so I'm going to be able to pay off my high interest credit cards. Yay. I got my test server up and running, but for some reason it has locked out all incoming ports: I can initiate communications from the server, but it won't respond to communications attempts from other computers on my network. I threw the network monitor on, and it is definitely receiving the packets; I just can't find where the ports are being blocked. I've played some Civ (doing well). I've played some poker (losing money). I've made tasty dinner three nights this week, but the flounder didn't work out well last night. The brocolli and leeks in cheesy sauce was good though, just not enough. After playing poker last night I stopped down at the Highlander to catch up briefly with Shawn. Also earlier in the week I got to Wolf Camera and got a couple of photos that I took with my new camera in New Zealand printed, and I also picked up frames for them. So I now have a new family portrait of sorts, from Christmas Day.

Upcoming events: movie or play tonight, party tomorrow night, Liverpool vs Manchester City on Sunday, lunch with former workmate on Monday, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on Monday night. I missed Meat Beat Manifesto last night, and Thill Kill Kult on Tuesday.

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