Saturdays are good. Watched the Red Green Show, and Ebert & Roeper. Today was Vedders' wedding so ended up going to that too. Apparently there was a little game going trying to figure out what I'd be wearing. Nick won by correctly guessing my usual jeans and tshirt... Tomorrow is my sister's high school graduation. Hopefully I'll get to watch a good movie or two though too...

It rained today. And someone learned what happens when you sarcastically say you want rain updates every 10 minutes to someone who knows how to use cron and has a history of making scripts to parse web pages for specific data... But yea, it rained a lot today, and i was reminded again how most people have some weird aversion toward getting wet in the rain. Why bother running and trying to stay out of it? It's only water (well, little enough other stuff to matter if you wash your clothes even occationally), and it dries in air soon enough... Might as well just go for a walk and enjoy the weather.

The day went better than expected, and I didn't even end up breaking out the music. They kept us active and kept people with a good sense of humor running the stuff, so we didn't get bored. The Chipotle run was good - I've never seen the place so packed. I think Quizno's next door finally got sick of the line going out the door and across the entire front of their store and beyond, because by the time we left the line was going the other way. It's definitely the longest line I've ever seen at that location - from talking to one of the employees it sounds like it's the biggest they've seen too. I guess free Burritos for cheap will cause that type of effect. For the evening just relaxed and watched Swordfish. Oh yea, and introduced some coworkers to IMDB... Gotta love days that are sorta half vacation with nothing serious to do, but plenty of stuff to do.

Rather interesting shirt...

You can't complain when you order something in the evening, choose the free shipping option, and it still shows up 2 days later. So the DVD Burner is installed, although I haven't burned anything yet (no discs). The sound card is also installed, and it's better, although there's still some glitches. I may end up messing with the kernel interrupts a bit... Tomorrow is Staff Retreat (it doesn't look too exciting, but it is doing nothing instead of work) and free Chipotle with non-perishable food items day (free Chipotle is always good), so that should be a good day overall. Gotta get up early though... :( It won't help that I've been horribly tired the last few days from lack of sleep...

I finally gave in and ordered a DVD burner today. I also ordered a sample pack of DVD-R media so I can figure out which kinds my player likes. Today the announcement was made that Dave is joining the server team at work, so he gets to move to a real office and join 2nd floor now - that should be fun. When I got to work this morning I was talking to a friend who was playing paintball over the weekend. He was ganged up on and ended up with welts all over his body - it looks painful. We made up for it by going to Willowgate for lunch though, which is always a good thing. And then I did nothing productive all night. I like this no school thing...it seems to be working out pretty well...

I never realised the lightsabers in Episode II had so much bass. You feel them more than most of the explosions. It makes the scene with the "overgrown mosquito on crack" even better... I also discovered again why null pointers in kernel modules are a bad thing. It's sorta hard to unload and load modules after one of them segfaults on load - oops. At least now I have the nvidia audio drivers loaded and hardcoded to 48k since it kept using 44.1k, so the pvr sounds decent most of the time...

It looks like daapd has been released (thanks to Paul Boyum for finding that one). That's cool, although I want a DAAP 2.0 client too. Maybe I'll get around to it next week sometime. Looks like Todd Larason has more notes on DAAP up on his website, although they appear to all be for DAAP 1.0. Spent way too much time reading about DVDs, MPEG, and recording. I think I may start archiving movies to DVD, which could be fun. In preparation I bumped the bitrate up a bit and changed the resolution to 720x480 rather than 480x480. MythTV is saving directly as .mpg files even though they're named .nuv, so there's not much work to copy out to DVD with the new resolution (audio is already 48k). We'll see how that goes. I just need a better supported sound card now for stuff not worth burning... Another day with way too much time spent watching recorded TV. I hadn't watched The Red Green Show in quite a few years, and forgot how funny it is. Also, music video programs on MTV and VH1 are decent when you can just quickly skip through them to see if they managed to throw in a good video or two and just trash it if not. And even though The Italian Job is being promoted so much you'd think it was sure to be crap, Ebert and Roeper seem to be in agreement that it's a good flick. Now the question is will I actually get off my butt and go see it, or will I just wait and get the DVD in a few months... I need to get back on a regular schedule - rumor has it I may have to go up front in church tomorrow because of something with college graduates. That can't be good...

Can never complain when you get to sleep for half the day. Although getting up to go sit outside in cloudy/rainy weather is sorta annoying (track meet). Afterwards watched Wild Things, which was recorded from TV a day or two ago. The TV version drops the most annoying scenes, which makes it a watchable movie. Still sorta weird though. I still need to figure out where some really annoying ghosting is coming from and fix it though...

Pretty average day at work. For lunch apparently 3 of our student workers decided they only want to go to lunch once a week. Oh well, we still have some people, and other people even stop in sometimes... I ended up going to HR to pick up all the paperwork for health insurance. The stack is like 2" thick - I haven't looked through it yet, but hopefully most of that is just documentation on what is covered and stuff like that. I got to leave early today because I already worked all my hours this week, which means no work Friday too. Before I left I played with iTunes a bit though. There's a new header, Client-DAAP-Validation, which appears to be a 32 character hex string. I'm guessing MD5, but what it is of is anyone's guess - it's not anything super obvious, but it does change with every request. Fun stuff... After work Jeff and Nate came over and we watched Bourne Identity. Apparently people were trying to guess the movie from the sound, and one person who was visiting and sitting in the living room upstairs thought she had to run outside and close her car windows because she heard the "thunder" and thought it was going to rain. Oops... Then I watched like 4 hours worth of TV shows. I love digital video recorders...