I bought one of these (the “squared” model) the other day. It seems like a neat little notebook; it holds everything I need. I suppose I should think about writing something “significant” in it, but really I don’t have anything significant going on right now. I’m pretty much using it as a day planner, without the dates printed on every page. I just write what needs to be done, and if I’m feeling meticulous enough, I also write the date above where I start. The square-ruled pages are handy, because it makes it easier for me to draw “checkboxes” for TODO items.

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And calling tech support from work when you’re having a problem with your home computer is like driving your jaguar to the mechanic, and saying “I’m having a problem with my Camaro; can you fix it?”

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Home is 30.22135N 97.74433W 631’ Elevation

I found my GPS reciever, and had a couple of AA batteries sitting around. Unfortunately, it’d been so long that I had to reconfigure it. It took nearly 5 minutes to get a lock on 4 satellites, and get elevation data. Oh, well.

Maybe I’ll start geocaching again; that’s fun. I’ll just have to start getting up earlier (i.e., while the sun’s still up)

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I think there’s a god out there somewhere, and that he (she, it, whatever) wants me to get out more. Case in point: I woke up today at around noon (it was my day off). I spent 4 hours watching some episodes of Family Guy that I’d downloaded, and then went back to bed. I got up around 11:30, and began making preparations to leave for work. Make a salad, grab my bag, etc. Then my truck won’t start; the battery’s too low (although the dome light is on, kinda). I end up walking to work; it takes me an hour, and it’s uphill most of the way.

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I just realized that Mozilla Thunderbird also wraps plain-text messages at 74 characters per line. I guess it’ll be easier than I thought to identify those posts.

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I really wish Mozilla Thunderbird had support for “mail templates”; then I could automate this process (set subject line prefix, paste first 2 lines and closing line). Oh, well. At least now I can make posts from web cafes (well, if there WERE any in Austin that I visited on a regular basis).

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Now my Lat/Lon values will be imported when I post via email (now that I’ve divined, magically, the string to put on the second line)?

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So I’m testing out posting via email. Let’s see if it works.

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I’ve gone ahead & upgraded from b2 to wordpress. Yes, it’s an upgrade. From what I can tell, the authors of b2 made substantial changes to the product, and stopped development on b2 and cafelog (the commercial flavor of b2). Mainly, it just means that it’s a better product on the backend (the parts you’ll never really see). It also (unfortunately) means that I’ll have to rewrite my main template, since this one is the default that comes with WordPress, and isn’t really my style.

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Calling your ISP’s technical support with your computer off is like walking into your mechanic’s garage and saying “I’m having some trouble with my car.”

It’s so hard to not be outrageously profane when writing this post. Come on, people! Exercise your brain a little! I know it’s not something you usually use on a regular basis, what with everything else in the world being spoon-fed to you. Fox News dumbs down the stories the air so that even a 5-year-old can understand them. TV Shows and movies are produced for, what, an average 8th-grade audience? Hell, it’s even hard to find a non-editorial article in the newspaper with words that have more than three syllables.

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