Loose ends...
May. 16th, 2001 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpAfter fooling around for a little while with the Mandrake Linux installed on my IBM box (which I think I will call "Watson"), it turns out that no attempt at all was made to install network card support! This is in distinction from the "full" version of Mandrake, which I know does install this support, automatically probing for and determining the setup for the network card in the process. I'm definitely too lazy to do much more in this direction tonight, so to heck with it.
Lee and I did not watch any movies tonight. Instead we went to the Chinese restaurant again, and upon returning home, I sat down and tried to download mail. One of the folks who assigns me work called this afternoon to find out if I was willing to come in early tomorrow morning, at oh-dark-thirty, to start air-to-ground early, so that the person who was doing that could be freed to go do something else. I said yes, and was informed that if this was to happen, I'd get an e-mail to that effect.
So, of course, my ISP's e-mail server decided to become real recalcitrant right now. I've spent about 2 hours trying to download 13 messages; the furthest I've gotten is up to message 7, with no joy in the expected-e-mail department. If this current try fails, I shall have to set my alarm early, and then hope that the hairball keeping my e-mail on my ISPs server disintegrates by the time I get up, so I can find out whether I can go back to sleep for a couple of hours or not. Grampleflax, and other similar sentiments.
Today marks a full month of posts, which proves nothing, except perhaps that it is easier to post to LJ when I'm away from home. Galina called and said she is driving down, starting tonight, stopping in Austin to deliver something to someone. The plan is then for us to drive back to Colorado instead of me just flying back home on Monday. I actually like the idea, except for her doing another one of those "long haul" trips that we've made many times, both together and separately, over the years.
I still remember the heart-stopping terror of getting a phone call from the police a couple of years ago telling me Galina had been in an accident serious enough to put her in the hospital with suspected neck damage. I freaked out, couldn't sleep all night long, and it took an act of will not to just jump into a car and tear out at 200 miles per hour to get there just as fast as I could. As it turned out, the hospital stay was measured in hours, and I flew up the next day with two return tickets for that night.
In between, we went to see the car, or what was left of it. Galina had been driving down 287, doing the speed limit, when someone emerged from a side road and stopped directly in her lane, preparing to turn and not realizing they were stopped on the highway. Nobody died in the crash, but both cars were totaled. Galina wore bruises for a long time.
I'll figure out what to do with the ticket my client bought later.
Time to hit the hay, if I am to get up early. The mail process timed out after 10 messages. I got one e-mail from the client that said it looked like the plan was off for tomorrow, but promised another e-mail if that changed. Since there are still 3 e-mails left unseen, my current plan does not change.
Cheers...
Lee and I did not watch any movies tonight. Instead we went to the Chinese restaurant again, and upon returning home, I sat down and tried to download mail. One of the folks who assigns me work called this afternoon to find out if I was willing to come in early tomorrow morning, at oh-dark-thirty, to start air-to-ground early, so that the person who was doing that could be freed to go do something else. I said yes, and was informed that if this was to happen, I'd get an e-mail to that effect.
So, of course, my ISP's e-mail server decided to become real recalcitrant right now. I've spent about 2 hours trying to download 13 messages; the furthest I've gotten is up to message 7, with no joy in the expected-e-mail department. If this current try fails, I shall have to set my alarm early, and then hope that the hairball keeping my e-mail on my ISPs server disintegrates by the time I get up, so I can find out whether I can go back to sleep for a couple of hours or not. Grampleflax, and other similar sentiments.
Today marks a full month of posts, which proves nothing, except perhaps that it is easier to post to LJ when I'm away from home. Galina called and said she is driving down, starting tonight, stopping in Austin to deliver something to someone. The plan is then for us to drive back to Colorado instead of me just flying back home on Monday. I actually like the idea, except for her doing another one of those "long haul" trips that we've made many times, both together and separately, over the years.
I still remember the heart-stopping terror of getting a phone call from the police a couple of years ago telling me Galina had been in an accident serious enough to put her in the hospital with suspected neck damage. I freaked out, couldn't sleep all night long, and it took an act of will not to just jump into a car and tear out at 200 miles per hour to get there just as fast as I could. As it turned out, the hospital stay was measured in hours, and I flew up the next day with two return tickets for that night.
In between, we went to see the car, or what was left of it. Galina had been driving down 287, doing the speed limit, when someone emerged from a side road and stopped directly in her lane, preparing to turn and not realizing they were stopped on the highway. Nobody died in the crash, but both cars were totaled. Galina wore bruises for a long time.
I'll figure out what to do with the ticket my client bought later.
Time to hit the hay, if I am to get up early. The mail process timed out after 10 messages. I got one e-mail from the client that said it looked like the plan was off for tomorrow, but promised another e-mail if that changed. Since there are still 3 e-mails left unseen, my current plan does not change.
Cheers...
