Trip to mom’s yesterday. Grumpy Dave today. The trip threw off my schedule, and Don’s. Hopefully today will get things back to normal a little, and I’ll be able to get back into the groove I was in the first half of the week.
- Here’s a nice little story: Dog Experiences Best Day Of His Life For 400th Consecutive Day. Don, on the other hand, didn’t have the best day yesterday. We went up to mom’s, and her dog (a cranky old cocker spaniel) yelled at him. Then when we got home, he decided to run out to the end of the leash and try to keep running about a half-dozen times between the garage and the house. I think next time he goes for a trip in the car, he gets carried all the way into the house in the crate before I worry about whether he needs to fertilize the lawn or not. For that matter, ever since then, he’s been a little shit about the leash, either trying to tear my arm out of the socket or walking along with me and then planting all four feet when he decides he doesn’t want to go where I’m going. I know he’s awfully young to expect him to behave well on a leash, but he’s gotten confident enough that he takes off if I don’t leash him when we make a trip outside, so I don’t think I have much choice.
- I’m also getting increasingly grumpy about .Mac lately. Yes, it’s handy, and nice that Apple offers so much for so cheap. But there are about 23 different ways to interact with it on my computer, and one of them (Safari) doesn’t know the password that all the others do. It would sure be nice if there was some place I could just enter the password once and have it work in all the various applications (like maybe the .Mac system preference which already has the working password).
- They’re saying that Bike safety [is] a concern at U, especially as a whole crop of new students are biking around the area for the first time. Problems include bike lanes full of crap, and people who don’t ride according to the rules of the road. [daily]
- I was digging through one of the Mark Penman archives the other day, and rediscovered Same Shit. Different November. Enjoy.
- It’s a day late, but Happy Ninth Birthday, OpenBSD! [openbsd]
- I’m no good at avoiding The Tyranny of Email. Then again, I also don’t believe it takes three hours to get up to speed programming. If I can get ten or fifteen undisturbed minutes, I feel as though I can get into the groove. Some days, that’s tough to come by, though. [boing boing]