Mortaine’s Blog

I’m so tired, my left eyelid is twitching. It did this last week, too, when I had about 6 hours of sleep.

I woke up an hour early this morning so I could clean cat pee off the bed. Whee. I’m sure it’s my fault for not cleaning his box sooner. Sigh.

KDE had finished compiling and installing this morning, so I went to check email. All of my configurations from KDE were gone. I’m going to have to try to reconstruct my 100 or so mail filters again (grrr).

On the plus side, KDE 3 is pretty. I have no idea how well it works, though– certainly everything is shit as of this morning.

I need spamassassin back. I need gpg back. I need sound and printing back. Eventually, I need StarOffice or OpenOffice and Mozilla back.

I would be so happy if I had a PDA app, finally.

And logjam– logjam’s been broken on my system for months.

The house is closing on June 20th, which is when I can buy my car. Later, I can buy the laptop, too.

I was bitchy at breakfast this morning, running late because I was so tired. John kept getting in my way. We both had to get gas for our cars, and I yelled at him for blocking my access to the other pumps (I was next to a different pump, but that didn’t matter). There was some guy pumping gas on the other side of the pump, and he gave me this look like he was going to say something– it’s good for him that he didn’t. Normally I might tell someone like that “No, it’s okay– we’re married” or something, but this morning I was such a bitch, I would have told him to mind his own fucking business. I’m glad he did without me needing to remind him.

The commute was OK this morning. And my fellow tech writers were very friendly today, which was really refreshing. One of the other writers did almost exactly what I’d done on her shutdown– cleaned the garage, went on a writing retreat, upgraded software. Impressive.

Apparently, Semicon is next month, not next week. I’m such an idiot.

Oh, I remember something I wanted to mention– I actually wanted to post about this on Saturday.

The Cubs game. I was watching the Cubs game when Choi (Cubs shortstop) collided with the Cubs’ pitcher, Woods, and got knocked out. Wow. I know that injuries happen all the time in baseball and in other sports, but when you think about how little head protection these guys are wearing, and then you see one of them smack his head against the hard-packed ground, it just makes you realize how dangerous it can be.

It also makes you realize how incredible this game is– the entire crowd (and Wrigley was standing-room-only on Saturday) was chanting Choi’s name when they put the stretcher into the ambulance.

I love that game.

The Cubs, by the way, went on to beat the Yankees, 5-2. It was the kind of game you really wanted to be there for. The kind of game not to miss.

We have about thirteen bags of garbage now, waiting to go out. I think it’s time for a run to the dump.

I boxed up a bunch of computer things, some or a friend’s nephew, some for my sister, some to just get rid of. If anyone wants some older Windows software, especially older speech recognition programs and headsets, talk to me. Goodwill won’t take them, and I don’t want to throw these things away, necessarily.

We have speakers that we’re interested in selling– might list on EBay; I’m not sure at this point.

Reminder to self: Get home in time for insurance appointment this evening at 7. Gah.