That’s the theme for this morning, both in the blogging and in real life. I’ll start with the easier part. Thanks to Margaret again for suggesting the photowalk on Saturday, and thanks to everyone else for being a generally fun gang of folks to wander around with. I had a ton of fun, and it was just the kind of thing I need to do more often. My pictures are still sitting in the camera though, since I got home and realized that having nearly a full gig of pictures in the camera, and less than 2 gigs available on my hard drive would make things uncomfortably tight. Combine that with weary feet from spending a few hours walking around downtown, and Saturday evening saw very little in the way of productivity.
Which brings me to Sunday. I woke up and hung in the 24 hours of TV chatroom for a while, then headed out to MicroCenter to buy a new hard drive for the computer. It’s still sitting on the dining room table, since rather than plopping it right into the computer when I got home, I logged back into the chat room to cheer the guys on to the end. When that was done, I felt as though I’d had enough computer, and plopped down in front of the TV for the remainder of the day.
All of which means that this morning I need to spend time sorting and paying the bills I was going to pay over the weekend and didn’t. Then it’s off to work for the day, and hopefully take some time this evening to get the new hard drive installed so I can start pulling in the pictures from Saturday. Plus all the pictures from earlier in the month.
- Midwest Oil got fined because some Left-thinking silliness tries to set a floor on the price of gasoline in Minnesota. People gripe about high gas prices, and yet when a company is trying to sell gasoline
too cheaply
, they get fined. - Latest to hop on the surveillance bandwagon: St. Paul police want you to Say cheese now. Sigh. [press-patch]
- On Friday, the Minneapolis City Council Reject[ed a] Publicly Owned Wi-Fi System, plowing ahead with the privately owned and operated system. I’m still upset that they never even looked at a system run by the city, and I have the sinking feeling this is going to end up being another case where the vendor will start out all nice and friendly and will be screwing consumers city-wide within a couple years.
- By the time you read this, 24 Hours of TV will be done. But the transcripts survive, and you can go back and view all the gory details. There was no late-night car-wreck, just a solid chunk of TV. And as they said about eightteen hours in
You’re not doing this for the money? What the hell are you doing this for?
is a pretty good motto. I hung out in the chat-room starting about about hour seventeen, and the guys were less loopy than I expected. [scottk] - Was the Washington Post Caught in Metadata Gaffe? Sure sounds like it. [photoshop news]
- Huh! Pluto has more moons. Two more, even if they are little. Neat, I guess. [scottk]