Spent a good portion of the day trying to get an AutoYast install working on 64 bit Suse. Think I just about figured it out, although trying to move files across an NFS mount from within a VMWare image is very painful.
Had a good talk this evening with Naomi on IM. Looks like she's starting to get over me.
Went to Home Depot tonight in Manhattan to see if they had the tile I liked. Watched 24.
Did some more work on trying to get the new homepage working. Found out the hard way that Yahoo Geocities support absolutely sucks. Not only do they not have phone support for their paid service, but the web page that you are supposed to use to contact them with problems is broken. How on earth are you supposed to report problems if the problem reporting page throws an error when you try to use it? So I shelled out real money and I can't even get the thing to work. If I don't hear back from them I'm calling my credit card company to dispute the charge.
I have an interview candidate who is not going to show up tomorrow until 5:30. Not only that, he's there for the test so it is likely I won't get out of there until 8:30 if I'm lucky. Crap.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Lesson learned
Don't try to walk home from the hardware store with a heavy item and two large awkwardly shaped items. Also don't try it in the rain.
Just got home from Home Depot with a 20 lb box of 12x12 floor tiles, and two sets of mini-blinds. I'm sure onlookers found it entertaining.
Just got home from Home Depot with a 20 lb box of 12x12 floor tiles, and two sets of mini-blinds. I'm sure onlookers found it entertaining.
Sleepy Sunday
So yesterday was quite busy. Met up with Kyle in Princeton, walked around. Got my favorite treats from Thomas Sweet. Lunch/Dinner at Applebee's. Went to Old Navy and Target to buy some new jeans. Got home at around 10:30. At 11:30, Ben woke me up from a slumber to tell me that he had forgotten to email me with the details of his party in the city. So I went back in to Manhattan at midnight and met up with him and coworkers by 12:30. Drank/hung out until 3:00am. Then most of us dispersed. Ben, his wife, Patrick and I went to a diner at 33rd and 9th. As an odd coincidence, it was the same diner that Naomi and I went to on our first date, and I had never been back there since.
Woke up this morning late (10:30), and been doing some web surfing, email until now.
Working backwards, on Friday I installed Suse on a VMWare session and successfully got Dagent to run. Debugged a really nasty problem with the generic routines to read stdout and stderr when running a subprocess. Turns out there was a problem with handling SIGCHLD, and it only occurred when the process life was VERY short. Basically it only happened with my routine that reads the name of the Operating System, which is why it nailed me when I ported to Suse. As a result of the bug, output was being arbitrarily truncated about 1 in 15 times. Did I mention I hate race conditions?
Perhaps will do some more couch shopping this afternoon. Also, I would really like to get over to Home Depot and buy the rest of the mini-blinds I need for the remaining windows. The new ones in the kitchen look so good that I have decided to shell out the cash and do the other windows. Will also buy the cheapest set of drill bits I can find, so I don't have to torque the screws in by hand.
Woke up this morning late (10:30), and been doing some web surfing, email until now.
Working backwards, on Friday I installed Suse on a VMWare session and successfully got Dagent to run. Debugged a really nasty problem with the generic routines to read stdout and stderr when running a subprocess. Turns out there was a problem with handling SIGCHLD, and it only occurred when the process life was VERY short. Basically it only happened with my routine that reads the name of the Operating System, which is why it nailed me when I ported to Suse. As a result of the bug, output was being arbitrarily truncated about 1 in 15 times. Did I mention I hate race conditions?
Perhaps will do some more couch shopping this afternoon. Also, I would really like to get over to Home Depot and buy the rest of the mini-blinds I need for the remaining windows. The new ones in the kitchen look so good that I have decided to shell out the cash and do the other windows. Will also buy the cheapest set of drill bits I can find, so I don't have to torque the screws in by hand.
Monday, January 23, 2006
Mundane Monday
Not much to report. Went to work. Interviewed a couple of candidates. More cleanup work on patching.
Got a haircut tonight. Five different people all told me to go to the same place on Astor Place. It was cheap, quick, and I'm pretty happy with the result.
Called Vikki to see if she wanted to grab dinner but she was on her way back from New Jersey. She said to call her tomorrow.
Deposited Naomi's check for the car. Need to call the insurance company tomorrow. She called tonight seeking an explanation on why men are so annoying.
Watched 24. Picked up laundry.
Got a haircut tonight. Five different people all told me to go to the same place on Astor Place. It was cheap, quick, and I'm pretty happy with the result.
Called Vikki to see if she wanted to grab dinner but she was on her way back from New Jersey. She said to call her tomorrow.
Deposited Naomi's check for the car. Need to call the insurance company tomorrow. She called tonight seeking an explanation on why men are so annoying.
Watched 24. Picked up laundry.
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Sunny Sunday
It's a beautiful day out today. The sun is shining and there is no sign of clouds. Wohoo!
Vikki emailed me Friday night. We went to a German place for lunch in the Village, and then Dean and Deluca for coffee. Went back to her apartment and spent the afternoon talking. As it turns out, she lives only eight blocks from my office. It was really good to catch up with her, and I hope to be able to hang out with her more regularly.
Today did some cleaning. Went to Home Depot and bought new mini-blinds for the kitchen (which I am in the process of hanging now). The old ones were pretty gross, and they were about 12 inches too short for the window they were hung in. Also, the new ones are white whereas the old ones were cream colored. I had to buy custom cut blinds because I couldn't find anyone who sold out of the box blinds that are more than 64" in length. Since I had to get custom blinds anyway, I had them cut to the exact width required for the two windows (28" and 27.5"), so they fit really well and the difference in the size of the two windows isn't obvious.
Note to self: either bring back the drill bits the next time you go to South Jersey, or buy a really cheap set to keep in the apartment.
Also went to a couple of places and looked at couches. Nothing that jumped out at me as fantastic. Will have to continue the search. I did straighten out the living room so I am all ready to receive the new couch (once I buy it).
Naomi's Mom is meeting up with me this afternoon so we can close the deal on the car. I am hoping to get together with Patrick later for dinner. And perhaps will watch the West Wing with Dan tonight.
Naomi's IM away message says "Holding hands is indeed a simple pleasure in life." Admittedly kind of curious who she is holding hands with...
I'm doing an experiment to see if the generic versions of Claratin-D are as good as the real thing. I've bought five-packs of two different brand generics. If they work as well, this will save me about 30%.
Ok, back to hanging my blinds.
Vikki emailed me Friday night. We went to a German place for lunch in the Village, and then Dean and Deluca for coffee. Went back to her apartment and spent the afternoon talking. As it turns out, she lives only eight blocks from my office. It was really good to catch up with her, and I hope to be able to hang out with her more regularly.
Today did some cleaning. Went to Home Depot and bought new mini-blinds for the kitchen (which I am in the process of hanging now). The old ones were pretty gross, and they were about 12 inches too short for the window they were hung in. Also, the new ones are white whereas the old ones were cream colored. I had to buy custom cut blinds because I couldn't find anyone who sold out of the box blinds that are more than 64" in length. Since I had to get custom blinds anyway, I had them cut to the exact width required for the two windows (28" and 27.5"), so they fit really well and the difference in the size of the two windows isn't obvious.
Note to self: either bring back the drill bits the next time you go to South Jersey, or buy a really cheap set to keep in the apartment.
Also went to a couple of places and looked at couches. Nothing that jumped out at me as fantastic. Will have to continue the search. I did straighten out the living room so I am all ready to receive the new couch (once I buy it).
Naomi's Mom is meeting up with me this afternoon so we can close the deal on the car. I am hoping to get together with Patrick later for dinner. And perhaps will watch the West Wing with Dan tonight.
Naomi's IM away message says "Holding hands is indeed a simple pleasure in life." Admittedly kind of curious who she is holding hands with...
I'm doing an experiment to see if the generic versions of Claratin-D are as good as the real thing. I've bought five-packs of two different brand generics. If they work as well, this will save me about 30%.
Ok, back to hanging my blinds.
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Sick and tired
Woke up this morning and felt like crap. Perhaps it was the chili from the night before. To everyone's shock at the office, I called out sick. But I was feeling a little better by mid-morning, and made it into the office by 12:30. I still feel run down, but I'll be ok.
Lots of cleanup work on patching. Also killed a couple of hours and reviewed resumes. I'm all caught up now and have around five interviews in the next week. I'm also now screening candidate resumes for a SysAdmin position (because I don't have enough to do already).
Did an hour's worth of training for the Systems staff. Things like what does the company's network topology look like and what sort of documentation will be expected of them. I don't remember being the manager of the Systems group.
Got an IM from Naomi while at work this afternoon. She wanted to know how the car title was coming along. She then gave me an in depth description of a problem she was having with getting the insurance in New York (she might have to get the car registered in MD since that is where she lives). She had said she wanted to get it straightened out before I settled up on the car. When I told her that the two were independent issues, and that she could register the car in whatever state she needed to once I had given her the title, she accused me of, and I quote "I am trying to be friends with you and all you want to do is talk business. It's like all you care about is getting the money, so why should you care what happens once you get rid of the car?". Or something to that effect. I really need to work on my communication skills, since I wasn't trying to be antagonistic.
Got home at around 8:30. Watched CSI.
Quote of the week:
"There is a land called Passive Aggressiva, and you are it's queen."
- Grey's Anatomy
Lots of cleanup work on patching. Also killed a couple of hours and reviewed resumes. I'm all caught up now and have around five interviews in the next week. I'm also now screening candidate resumes for a SysAdmin position (because I don't have enough to do already).
Did an hour's worth of training for the Systems staff. Things like what does the company's network topology look like and what sort of documentation will be expected of them. I don't remember being the manager of the Systems group.
Got an IM from Naomi while at work this afternoon. She wanted to know how the car title was coming along. She then gave me an in depth description of a problem she was having with getting the insurance in New York (she might have to get the car registered in MD since that is where she lives). She had said she wanted to get it straightened out before I settled up on the car. When I told her that the two were independent issues, and that she could register the car in whatever state she needed to once I had given her the title, she accused me of, and I quote "I am trying to be friends with you and all you want to do is talk business. It's like all you care about is getting the money, so why should you care what happens once you get rid of the car?". Or something to that effect. I really need to work on my communication skills, since I wasn't trying to be antagonistic.
Got home at around 8:30. Watched CSI.
Quote of the week:
"There is a land called Passive Aggressiva, and you are it's queen."
- Grey's Anatomy
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Chili night
Work went ok. Systems people continue to annoy me. The best was when one of them had to ask how to concatenate two text files together.
Dan and I went out for a working lunch, where he outlined how things were going to be restructured as he is returning to the Clarity project. Mostly good things. Looks like my life will be easier in that he will be taking over again most of the management issues. It's hard though not to feel a bit like its a demotion.
Went to Eric's after work for Chili with a bunch of his friends. The pot aside, it was good to hang out.
Just got home a few minutes ago.
Dan and I went out for a working lunch, where he outlined how things were going to be restructured as he is returning to the Clarity project. Mostly good things. Looks like my life will be easier in that he will be taking over again most of the management issues. It's hard though not to feel a bit like its a demotion.
Went to Eric's after work for Chili with a bunch of his friends. The pot aside, it was good to hang out.
Just got home a few minutes ago.
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