Week finished up well, I got a good start on a project to help manage server dependencies, hopefully both in monitoring and as a startup/shutdown sequence thing. After work I went over to Ross' place and we just hung out for a few hours. It was busy down there, had to park on the street a block away after driving around a few other blocks looking for spots. I brought over my DTV tuner, and we tried seeing how well that worked. Unfortunately it was very finicky. Tons of multipath due to the other buildings, and 8VSB doesn't handle that very well (especially when it's so bad you can't hardly pick out things with NTSC).

Saturday was sleep-in day. Although the usual students-don't-technically-live-in-dorms-anymore thing happened and people got confused again. When likely legal reasons hit real-time technical stuff... Got up sometime in the early afternoon and did some laundry and chatting online. Then a lot of reading stuff. Ended up watching Adaptation, which was rather interesting. It has Peter-man in it, and the trailer got me listening to some Queen. It had a great quote I remember too. "I'm sure you had good reasons Charles - you're an artist." Yea, definitely... After that listened to the new U2 album. I have to say I don't totally dislike it after hearing all of it. It starts off with crap (Vertigo), but some of the other ones are decent, and the other songs from the singles aren't on it, which helps. Now I'm listening to some Christmas music (can you guess which artist? It shouldn't be too hard).

Sunday is Two Towers, if you don't remember. And Wednesday is Return of the King too. Monday is relax day for me. I think I may go bring stuff in to Comcast and get some junk removed from my bill though. Maybe I'll stop by Bethel for lunch or something. Due to the personal time, I only have 6 normal workdays left this month, and possibly one busy but unbothered one (also known as Nick and I take down server rooms while the place is closed day). During those days I need to figure out the plan for the unbothered day, look into web stuff, look into Firefox and NTLM, look into fileserver stuff... Yea, should be interesting.

The new ogo activated as I got signal while leaving work on Friday, and seems to be acting much better. I was playing with them a bit at Ross' place. That in itself was sorta funny, as during the course of the night I was pulling stuff out of my bag, and at one point I realized I had four different completely wireless devices capable of global communication within a foot of my body. I guess times have changed (and I'm a geek). Anyways, the new one seems to track the GSM strength much better, can hang onto GPRS better, and can stay accurate on time (I never noticed how bad the old one was until I noticed the difference and compared to another source). It also seems to interact a bit better on AIM and load emails better. Just a better network sync I think. We'll see, I think I'm gonna wait another week to bring Ogo #1 back just to compare them.

And it's already early Sunday. I need to stop staying up so late. At least church isn't until 11.