Tomorrow we’ll heading up to Baltimore for at least part of the day. My friend Sheldon is judging at the (Magic: The Gathering) US Nationals there this weekend, and Jeff and I are driving up to see the live-action “Game of the Year” and then have dinner with Sheldon and his wife Gretchyn afterwards. We’re […]
On the home PC front, things are looking even better. I had reported that my data drive was fine, and that only the OS drive had failed. Of course, it turns out that there’s valuable data on that latter drive as well, including a year’s worth of Outlook email, as a start, before I switched […]
Look out, A-, B- and C-list bloggers (One of the Kathy Griffins of the blogosphere, I’m D-list at best)… with the fame accorded me by the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, I may soon be climbing the ladder of success. In an article last week entitled “Blogging is so popular because anyone can do it,” elf-reflection is […]
Saturday night Jeff and I were part of the end of an era among my circle of friends; for the past ten years my friends Paul and Eric have hosted a big outdoor bash at their house around the first weekend in August (with Eric’s birthday falling the last week of July, and Paul’s the […]
The new hard drive (250Gb!) arrived yesterday afternoon, so I spent the evening installing the drive and reinstalling the OS. Even with the new 3Mbps DSL upgrade, it took several hours to download and install all the necessary updates, patches, security fixes and utilities, so I haven’t started reinstalling my applications yet (except for the […]
As Solarbird already has pointed out in a comment to the previous post, my LiveJournal mirror of this blog is back up and working. Now that I’ve incorporated my del.icio.us links and flickr photos into my feedburner feed, I’m no longer posting them directly to the blog and no longer need to run the reblog […]
Four days later I’m still without a PC, which is my primary excuse for not having posted since Friday (I have a very old laptop, which is fine for occasionally checking email, but much too slow and difficult to use for anything else). Friday night after work I went by Best Buy to see if […]
Yesterday was a very frustrating day. It started as one of those work days where you’re not at all sure you even want to come back to the place the next day, and it ended with a hard drive failure on my home PC that looks to be particularly serious; not only do attempts to […]
We interrupt the cataloging of the weekend in New York to note that last night Jeff and I went to the Wolf Trap stop of the “Odd Man Out Tour” featuring Rufus Wainwright and Ben Folds with Ben Lee. It was a pleasant evening, though a little warm, with the local heat advisory extending right […]
Friday we got up early (6:30, yuk) to catch a 7:30 cab in order to make our 8:30 train. I was worried that it being rush hour we might get caught in traffic, and had considered changing the taxi reservation to 7:15. Of course, traffic was extraordinarily light, and we were at Union Station by […]