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A long way to go
Lately I have been messing around with Esperanto, which like several other hobbies I picked up as a young man and had to drop when I got married and started raising a family. If you've heard of it, it's probably in the context of "it's a language that everyone in the world was supposed to learn to speak, but nobody speaks it any more" or some such ( Read more... ) -
Some things are going well
The network is up and running, although I haven't gotten DHCP to work right with IPv6 addresses and I don't yet know why. I've had to assign static IPv6 addresses to the machines that are supposed to have particular addresses. In IPv4 you can do that easily in the machine's configuration; I'm not sure why it isn't working yet with IPv6. It's not a ( Read more... ) -
I haz a hot
Yesterday the temperature here flirted with 90 degrees. We Seattleites are not used to such scorching temperatures. You Texans and Georgians may laugh at such a statement, but this weekend was the first time all year the temperature got above 80 for any length of time ( Read more... ) -
And then there's living in the past
Last night I decided to start tackling hooking the front room computer up to the rest of the network. I got it working this morning and in the process I learned a couple of things ( Read more... ) -
Rough Night
I hate nights when I can't sleep. Since I am often tired and fall asleep readily, situations where I can't go to sleep are puzzling and frustrating, especially when I really want to sleep. Like last night, when for the second night in a row I didn't get to bed before midnight.Then about 4 in the morning Igor the Younger came in whimpering because ( Read more... ) -
I love living in the future
Middle of last week I got an email from my friend Jane Garthson, a Toronto filker. She said she and her husband Phil Mills were going to host a housefilk on Saturday, and would I be interested in attending via Skype?
Well, um, yeah.
So I dusted off my Skype account that I hadn't used in over a year, figured out my password and off I went. Connecting ( Read more... ) -
I've Been A Busy Little Boy
Yesterday was quite a day and I feel like I actually accomplished something.
The Tooth Of The MatterSunday I was sitting in church waiting for services to start and Igor the Younger offered to share a couple of Mike&Ikes his grandma had given him. I took one, thanked him, praised him for sharing, bit down on it and immediately wished I hadn't. Bit ( Read more... ) -
Jamie Moyer
If you're not a baseball fan, that name likely doesn't mean anything to you, although maybe it should. If you are a baseball fan, you probably know that name well. And if you are a baseball fan in Seattle you know that name well ( Read more... ) -
In Which Igor The Younger is Revealed To Be An Observant Little Cuss
When last I posted my banjo was unstrung and in several pieces. I was awaiting arrival of a new bridge and a nut to fasten the tailpiece to its bracket so I could put everything back together. I'm still waiting for the tailpiece nut, but I found something in my junkbox that's working well enough to do the assembly and get some practice in. I'll ( Read more... ) -
Happy Jive Live
A few days ago I got an email from the library saying I had a couple of holds ready to pick up. One was an audio book of John Hodgman's "More Information Than You Require," which I haven't started listening to yet but the blurbs on the case are a hoot. And the other was a copy of "Happy Jive Live" by Sandy Bradley and the Small Wonder Big Band ( Read more... )