One day left...
I finish today, I finish tomorrow, and I am done. No more UIC. More than that, though, is the fact that Tony shall indeed be my successor. The king is dead, long live the king.
Having said that, I must now start making preparations for my departure. Disposal of junk, removal of personal items, and the god-awful process of shifting everyone away from my soon-to-be defunct UIC email address. I still haven't quite decided yet if I'm going to make my new "main" email address be the one from my domain, or my hotmail account. Anyway, I've had my UIC email address for ten, possibly eleven years now, and it's going to suck trying to remember everyone that has it...
I had that operation on that cyst on my back on Tuesday, and so far as I know it went well. I think I go back to get rid of the stitches in two weeks or so. It'll be weird, not having that little thing on my back, but if it makes me a sexier, less deformed looking man, then so be it. They don't want me to take a shower for three days, though, and that sucks. It sucks especially since I whacked my head on the spigot in the tub this morning while washing my hair. Let us review: Sponge baths given by hot nurses, good. Sponge baths by yourself when you'd rather just take a damn shower, bad. Sponge baths when the tub and shower curtain could use a good scrubbing, ugly.
Tonight I think I'm going to work on building a new Linux server. I really need to get my web and ftp server off of my work machine, and I also need to get my CVS server back up. Besides all that, I was planning on using it to get used to playing with Linux again, since it's been a while since I last bothered with it.
This only comes up because last Saturday I went with Mar to a beautiful, perfect wonderland: Fry's Electronics. They are what Radio Shack once was, only better. They have things you would only expect to find on Star Trek, or possibly MacGuyver. They have UV coated copper plates and etching solution. They have thermocouples and IC chips, both DIP and surface mount, they have oscilliscopes and meters and solar panels and wires and EVERYTHING! On more than one occasion, I nearly made a mess of my shorts with orgasmic tech lust. I bought two 400 gig hard drives and a new DVD player that upconverts for HD resolutions. It uses HDMI, it knows that I have a widescreen set, and it upconverts to HD and removes the black bars, all on it's own. It is magical and wonderful, and everything altogether only cost me like $350.
But, I digress. I know I'm putting those twin drives in a RAID 1 configuration, and setting them up to serve files on my home network. What I haven't decided is if I'm going to dump them on the Linux box and use Samba, or if I want to put them into a Windows machine instead. I'm kinda leaning towards dumping everything into one big linux box, myself...
Well, I'm going to get going now. They're getting Busy Burger for lunch, and they actually remembered to include me in the order! Oh glorious day! I am so hungry right now, too...
Having said that, I must now start making preparations for my departure. Disposal of junk, removal of personal items, and the god-awful process of shifting everyone away from my soon-to-be defunct UIC email address. I still haven't quite decided yet if I'm going to make my new "main" email address be the one from my domain, or my hotmail account. Anyway, I've had my UIC email address for ten, possibly eleven years now, and it's going to suck trying to remember everyone that has it...
I had that operation on that cyst on my back on Tuesday, and so far as I know it went well. I think I go back to get rid of the stitches in two weeks or so. It'll be weird, not having that little thing on my back, but if it makes me a sexier, less deformed looking man, then so be it. They don't want me to take a shower for three days, though, and that sucks. It sucks especially since I whacked my head on the spigot in the tub this morning while washing my hair. Let us review: Sponge baths given by hot nurses, good. Sponge baths by yourself when you'd rather just take a damn shower, bad. Sponge baths when the tub and shower curtain could use a good scrubbing, ugly.
Tonight I think I'm going to work on building a new Linux server. I really need to get my web and ftp server off of my work machine, and I also need to get my CVS server back up. Besides all that, I was planning on using it to get used to playing with Linux again, since it's been a while since I last bothered with it.
This only comes up because last Saturday I went with Mar to a beautiful, perfect wonderland: Fry's Electronics. They are what Radio Shack once was, only better. They have things you would only expect to find on Star Trek, or possibly MacGuyver. They have UV coated copper plates and etching solution. They have thermocouples and IC chips, both DIP and surface mount, they have oscilliscopes and meters and solar panels and wires and EVERYTHING! On more than one occasion, I nearly made a mess of my shorts with orgasmic tech lust. I bought two 400 gig hard drives and a new DVD player that upconverts for HD resolutions. It uses HDMI, it knows that I have a widescreen set, and it upconverts to HD and removes the black bars, all on it's own. It is magical and wonderful, and everything altogether only cost me like $350.
But, I digress. I know I'm putting those twin drives in a RAID 1 configuration, and setting them up to serve files on my home network. What I haven't decided is if I'm going to dump them on the Linux box and use Samba, or if I want to put them into a Windows machine instead. I'm kinda leaning towards dumping everything into one big linux box, myself...
Well, I'm going to get going now. They're getting Busy Burger for lunch, and they actually remembered to include me in the order! Oh glorious day! I am so hungry right now, too...