Friday it felt like I got a lot of stuff done. Of course I had a huge amount left at the end of the day too. Oh well, such is life I guess. Hopefully I can soon get stuff in place so I can do the rest in more manageable pieces. It snowed a lot on Friday. When I was going to bed it sounded like sorta like a hailstorm with it hitting the side of the house too. Saturday I was woken up by my brother wanting to know stuff about the snowblower since it wouldn't run right. Apparently it didn't work out since when I woke up and actually got up, the whole thing had been shoveled. First movie of the day was Code 46. It was interesting, but I wasn't too impressed either. I think my favorite part was how they did the titles and then added the multilingual part on top of that. Second movie was Timeline. This one was more interesting, but still lacking a bit. I have a feeling it's like the rest of Michael Crichton books, where the book is a lot better than the movie. I think this is another one that I managed not to read the book for. He tends to give a lot of detail that you which you figure out later. In the movie they take those parts and make the discovery of the relation to prior details way too obvious. Oh well, I think it's worth watching at least once. Anyways, while watching trailers, I saw one for this. I realized that Jena Malone is building a rather odd reputation of the characters she plays in movies. In looking at the news I also found how to shovel snow. And in reading blogs stumbled across a funny church sign. And after seeing parts of the football season this year as my brother watches it, I'd have to agree with this argument. The fact that they can pay for that much advertising is crazy too - apparently they're making plenty of profit. Prescription drugs are one of those things that don't seem right to advertise. Those who need it should be told by their doctor (if a doctor doesn't know about treatment options or where to get that info, get a new doctor), and doctors are already bribed enough by the pharmaceutical companies about new drugs. Such is life where they can get people to demand overpriced and probably unnecessary treatments, the doctors will prescribe to get the patient to stop bugging them, and the insurance company is stuck paying for them. OK, I should go find something better to do...

Last week was interesting. We could sometimes reach our servers, and sometimes couldn't. I think as of today they have it pretty well fixed, but I'm sure something will come up with the number of changes that had to be made. Like all the pages I've been getting for the past 20 minutes probably mean something, especially since it was so quiet for the past day. I'm just glad that I can basically ignore it since my systems themselves stay up and I can't do anything about their connectivity.

I did get a lot of other stuff done though, like a bunch of mailing lists moved to the new server. With most of them people aren't even noticing the move, which is nice. Also lots more miscellaneous stuff, like reprogramming an alarm, talking to lots of people about stuff again, and generally dealing with the day to day stuff. I like Dave's response to what he does (as the same applies to both of us) - sit in an office and type all day. It sure is a lot simpler to explain.

Friday after work brought my sister over to get a bike and also went shopping at Sam's club. I picked up a few weeks worth of Dew, so shouldn't be running out for a bit. Saturday was sleep in and then try and ignore pages. Stuff broke again. I hear Doug worked most of the weekend, hopefully he gets a break now. Ross called me to invite me to a barbeque/bonfire, but I didn't feel like doing much of anything other than sitting around - I was still tired from the week. I did finish up Alias Season 2 though. Now I just have to watch Season 3 and I'll be caught up. I suppose I should get myth working again before Season 4 starts. I now have the box in the same closet as the HD tuner, so should be able to get better quality captures.

Sunday was church followed by sitting around the house all day. Basically trying to stay awake. I watched Identity, which was an interesting idea, but badly done. They start setting it up one way and it's really obvious it's gonna end with a reversal and yea... Can't really recommend based on the plot. If you're watching on a good system though, the sound is good, as well as the video cuts. While not having a great surround field, it has a lot of punch on the "surprises". That was followed by bringing in 4.5 gallons of Dew into the office so I don't have to carry it in later and mailing back the movie so I can get more sooner. Hmm. Mountain Dew Ice Cream. That actually sounds good.

Monday was sleep in day. Although it seems everyone forgot, at least at first. It was nice though. Stuff broke, and they fixed it, and I got to ignore it. Except when I couldn't get my email, that was sorta annoying. The mailing list server unsubscribed a ton of people today from one list I moved over. They had been bouncing ever since the migration. Apparently the old server just threw away the bounces and never bothered actually disabling or unsubscribing people. Hopefully this way we'll have less junk flying around the mail system long-term. Finally completely removed and reinstalled fink on my powerbook, so now I can install stuff. Got gimp up and running so I can edit pictures again. I have to say that it doesn't perform as well on large images as my linux box did. Then again, I normally seem to have problems with memory management on this box. There was a responsiveness glitch though. When changing layers and stuff and it had to swap things in from disk it'd take forever and the X11 interface doesn't seem to handle async very well. I wonder if it's based off older X code. Unfortunately that happened quite a bit. It warned me though that the image file was too big when I created it - I probably just need to tweak the settings a bit. It doesn't like when you get more than 11 million pixels or so in the image. Finished off the evening by watching Count of Monte Cristo, which was OK, followed by Rising Sun. It's been a bit over 10 years since I read the book (back in my reading every Michael Chichton book I could get my hands on phase), but I have to say when they say "based on the book" in this case it's pretty loose. They kept the general plot, but seem to have dropped half the investigation. Oh well, after seeing what they did to Jurassic Park, Congo, and Sphere, and especially Lost World, shouldn't be too surprised... I wonder what's in store for tomorrow.