Weekly update
Mar. 25th, 2012 01:06 amI can barely function tonight, and I'm not sure why. I got six hours of sleep, getting up at 1 pm. Derped around for about an hour, then Andy and I went outside and did some yard work- lots of raking of Ike's presents and various and sundry other bits of debris that had filled the lawn during the winter, trimming some tree branches, general stuff like that. Looks a lot better now. Tomorrow, we're going to paint the skirting. It will be much easier to do now before the grass grows. And it was a lovely day to be outside- near 70 degrees.
Afterwards, I did revisions to the Bonnie & Clyde book, which took awhile. Gilmore sent me an email saying he'd call me at noon tomorrow- I wrote back asking him to wait for an hour or two to make sure I was up!
I also need to go into the office tomorrow and install Snow Leopard on my new iMac there ... Lion is just causing too many problems to be useable. Thing is, the Snow Leopard installation disk came out before the iMac did, so the drivers for the iMac aren't on the disk, and the way the hard drives are partitioned now really throws the installer for a loop, so I'm going to need to connect the new iMac to another machine via firewire in targeted mode, then install to it through the other computer. Fine; I wanted to do this last weekend, but the new iMac only has a firewire 800 port on it, and everything else in the office (including my cables) are firewire 400, and they have different plugs ... I ordered an 800 to 400 cable, which came during the week. It was inexpensive ... and only one foot long!
So, I'm either going to need to put my new iMac back-to-back with one of the other machines, or I _might_ be able to daisy-chain firewire devices across the office from one machine to mine. Which, to be honest, sounds like a lot more fun.
Tomorrow is going to be a busy day.
I got a book in the mail today, "A Bigger Boat." A Bigger Boat chronicles the Albuquerque Slam Poetry scene's growth and success at the 2005 National Poetry Slam competition, which it hosted and won.
This was just beginning to be planned when I moved away in 2003; I was a part of the Slam Council at the time, as well as a Slam Master ... and I left. And missed out on something really special. I'm trying not to feel sad about it, but ... I'm sad about it.
For the first time since December 2010, I won't be writing a column this month. I still haven't gotten an answer from the newspaper yet, and I'll be damned if I just hand one over to them again.
On second thought, maybe I'll write one and publish it online anyway, just to spite them.
Yeah. I like that idea.
Afterwards, I did revisions to the Bonnie & Clyde book, which took awhile. Gilmore sent me an email saying he'd call me at noon tomorrow- I wrote back asking him to wait for an hour or two to make sure I was up!
I also need to go into the office tomorrow and install Snow Leopard on my new iMac there ... Lion is just causing too many problems to be useable. Thing is, the Snow Leopard installation disk came out before the iMac did, so the drivers for the iMac aren't on the disk, and the way the hard drives are partitioned now really throws the installer for a loop, so I'm going to need to connect the new iMac to another machine via firewire in targeted mode, then install to it through the other computer. Fine; I wanted to do this last weekend, but the new iMac only has a firewire 800 port on it, and everything else in the office (including my cables) are firewire 400, and they have different plugs ... I ordered an 800 to 400 cable, which came during the week. It was inexpensive ... and only one foot long!
So, I'm either going to need to put my new iMac back-to-back with one of the other machines, or I _might_ be able to daisy-chain firewire devices across the office from one machine to mine. Which, to be honest, sounds like a lot more fun.
Tomorrow is going to be a busy day.
I got a book in the mail today, "A Bigger Boat." A Bigger Boat chronicles the Albuquerque Slam Poetry scene's growth and success at the 2005 National Poetry Slam competition, which it hosted and won.
This was just beginning to be planned when I moved away in 2003; I was a part of the Slam Council at the time, as well as a Slam Master ... and I left. And missed out on something really special. I'm trying not to feel sad about it, but ... I'm sad about it.
For the first time since December 2010, I won't be writing a column this month. I still haven't gotten an answer from the newspaper yet, and I'll be damned if I just hand one over to them again.
On second thought, maybe I'll write one and publish it online anyway, just to spite them.
Yeah. I like that idea.