Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Category: <span>General</span>

Emotional journey.

OK, so the trip from Dulles to San Diego was more of a leg-cramping, neck-cricking journey, courtesy of United. But did have the following observations. An older, married couple were sitting a few rows up from me on the plane. When the wife (center seat) returned from the rear lavatory, …

Weekend prep.

Thursday night: Brought Honda to service station in full realization that 120K service tabs are hell. Hell. At least they gave me an estimate beforehand. Caught up on some email. Coped with daughter’s wild enthusiasm for tomorrow’s Field Day at kindergarten. Funny, I had forgotten altogether the superlative beauty of …

Cross it off.

Things accomplished: Car brakes, fixed. Frustration at apparent Emacs bug, achieved. Technical book review, caught up. Suggestion for DocBook ? PDF, made. ATK bug masquerading as Emacs bug, found. Fedora LiveCD for friend, delivered. Family outing to pizza joint to celebrate daughter’s reading achievements, completed. Freezer door insert, replaced. Work …

Slung in a hammock.

We’re the only ones left and we’re flat on our backsTaking the rest of the day off… Yes, it’s a wonderful day to get some work done at home. I got up at a pretty reasonable time, exercised, then picked up some coffee (thank you O SuperWife!), got my email …

Snow day.

Home from work today, since the ice coating all the roads caused our office to stay closed. I finished shoveling the driveway and the sidewalk of all the heavy, wet snow and ice, and now the wind is a blustery, battering background noise throughout the house. But the cockles of …