19. December, 2003 - feeling much better

• I’m not sure what it is, but this morning I feel a lot more positive about getting the move done and not freaking out. Part of it is having spent a couple hours this morning checking in a bug-fix for a client and basically (at least as far as I know) being in the clear again for the impending release. But the other part is that I got some useful stuff done yesterday for the move, too.
  From yesterday’s to-do list, I got some of the piles of crap out of the way of the bookcases. What remains are the boxes for the computers and stereo components, and I’m planning on packing most of the stereo stuff today, so that’s in order. A friend helped me move my trike last night. I got one dresser emptied and ready to move, and the other is going to be done this morning, and I think I’ve got a friend who’ll help move the empty dressers tomorrow.
  So the new list is looking manageable. Beyond what’s listed above, I need to stop by Harmon Glass and pick up some Lexan®. I was planning on putting ¼″ plexiglas® over the basement windows, but when I went to buy that, they were out. They did have a couple sheets of Lexan that had been destined for the Federal Reserve, but for whatever reason weren’t needed there, and they cut me a deal on ’em (possibly cheaper than the plexi would have been). They’ll be cutting them to size for me this morning and I hope to get ’em installed before the day is done.
  With any luck, there will even be some time for a bit of beer-drinking this evening. Woo!
• Latvian most drunk man in the world - ever with blood-alcohol levels nearly double what’s normally considered fatal. Ow! That’s gonna be some hangover. I don’t think I’ll have that many beers. [fark!]
• Life at a barge’s pace has held some weird fascination for me since I was a kid. Maybe it was reading too much Mark Twain or something. I don’t know. But I keep thinking that a decent way to kill some time some summer might be to catch a ride on a tug moving barges down the river.
• DVRs Making Their Moves on Consumers talks about the goodness that is TiVo. [fark!]
• City Hall’s artful windows shine again, as the million-dollar restoration of the rotunda in City Hall is complete. It’s also a good time to go gawk at that sort of thing, as it gets pretty quiet in City Hall this time of year. [press-patch]
• Northstar runs into trouble, as a federal study effectively stops service at Big Lake instead of St. Cloud. That may be the right thing for commuter rail, but one of the promises of the line was that it would make it easier to hop up to St. Cloud for people from here in Minneapolis. That’s gone now, and was probably the only reason I would have ever gotten on the train. [press-patch]
• Dazzling Images From New Space Telescope as the first images from the Spitzer Space Telescope are released. [fark!]
• Microsoft, New York launch spam lawsuits against a New York based spam ring. Maybe it’s just me, but isn’t it weird to think of Microsoft as the good guy?

Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek. Last updated on Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:48:19.