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Aug. 1st, 2000 06:08 pmThe vacation is nearly over, and while I can't say I'm raring to go back to the grind, I've had enough `vacation' for a while.
I dropped Galina off at the office and went on to open the Shawnee property for the inspector, who never showed up. Net for the trip: more bubble wrap for future eBay sales.
Upon returning home, I somehow got embroiled in cleaning out and cataloging the files in the cabinet. I've finally seen my way clear to throwing out a whole bunch of material I picked up in the early '90s having to do with C++ and OOP. I'm not at all sure it's of any use anymore; even if I went back into the business of hawking language compilers, I'd probably have to start around two octaves higher.
At the very least, I ran across information that helps me nail down some of the more important particulars of some presentations I did, back when I did presentations at places like `Software Development' and `C++ at Work'. I also found a transcript of one of my presentations and the names of two talks I delivered in Nashville to the American Translators Association.
Saw two movies over the weekend: The Talented Mr. Ripley and Akira Kurosawa's Tengoku to jigoku (a.k.a. High and Low) with Toshiro Mifune. More about both on another tablet.
Natalie went for her interview this morning and got the job. I hope it works out for her. The pay is nice, and it's entirely possible she'll now be able to afford a rent payment and an installment or two on her student loan.
The room looks a lot lighter, though I suspect that's an illusion. The desk chair behind me is piled high with various paper, and all of the other paper in the room is piled up in one place, balaced precariously against the cabinet. I bought a couple of shelves for the item I salvaged the other day. The whole enchilada is now in Natalie's room.
I picked up a copy of The Miracle of Thinking Big to read while I waited for the inspector this morning, and although I can understand where it's going and what the path is, I am for some reason loathe to follow it. Mayhaps I'm simply accustomed to following the path of maximum bitching, which is not going to net me or anyone around me any net gain anytime soon. I definitely have an attitude problem.
I'm starting to only skim the postings on Lantra-L. I'm to the point where about 90% of the postings objectively are of no interest, and of the remaining 10%, most appear to be well hashed out before I get to them in the evenings. I am, for the moment, satisfied to be a semi-lurker. A Lantracon in Orlando is in the preliminary stages.
Cheers...
I dropped Galina off at the office and went on to open the Shawnee property for the inspector, who never showed up. Net for the trip: more bubble wrap for future eBay sales.
Upon returning home, I somehow got embroiled in cleaning out and cataloging the files in the cabinet. I've finally seen my way clear to throwing out a whole bunch of material I picked up in the early '90s having to do with C++ and OOP. I'm not at all sure it's of any use anymore; even if I went back into the business of hawking language compilers, I'd probably have to start around two octaves higher.
At the very least, I ran across information that helps me nail down some of the more important particulars of some presentations I did, back when I did presentations at places like `Software Development' and `C++ at Work'. I also found a transcript of one of my presentations and the names of two talks I delivered in Nashville to the American Translators Association.
Saw two movies over the weekend: The Talented Mr. Ripley and Akira Kurosawa's Tengoku to jigoku (a.k.a. High and Low) with Toshiro Mifune. More about both on another tablet.
Natalie went for her interview this morning and got the job. I hope it works out for her. The pay is nice, and it's entirely possible she'll now be able to afford a rent payment and an installment or two on her student loan.
The room looks a lot lighter, though I suspect that's an illusion. The desk chair behind me is piled high with various paper, and all of the other paper in the room is piled up in one place, balaced precariously against the cabinet. I bought a couple of shelves for the item I salvaged the other day. The whole enchilada is now in Natalie's room.
I picked up a copy of The Miracle of Thinking Big to read while I waited for the inspector this morning, and although I can understand where it's going and what the path is, I am for some reason loathe to follow it. Mayhaps I'm simply accustomed to following the path of maximum bitching, which is not going to net me or anyone around me any net gain anytime soon. I definitely have an attitude problem.
I'm starting to only skim the postings on Lantra-L. I'm to the point where about 90% of the postings objectively are of no interest, and of the remaining 10%, most appear to be well hashed out before I get to them in the evenings. I am, for the moment, satisfied to be a semi-lurker. A Lantracon in Orlando is in the preliminary stages.
Cheers...
