A fairly fabulous Friday...

Okay, so we started with the ham-as-in-amateur-radio breakfast, where I found out that there is no apparent consistency in the making of the Pagosa Lodge's huevos rancheros, which didn't bother me too much at all. From the Lodge, I went over to open the store, and eventually ended up at home, working on the translation due Monday.

That is, until I was called by my lone, local IT client, for whom I am supposed to make some changes in a Perl script. The changes are pretty much planned out, but I was stymied by one of the requirements, which we discussed over lunch at Tequila's, a quasi-Mexican restaurant downtown, where the river takes a sharp turn thataway, and across the water from the town's "spa" (where one can take the waters, and where locals get a deal in that they pay 'only' $10 for a session at the Springs).

The rest of the day was pretty droll. I got my semiannual haircut (at least it feels semiannual). I finished the translation. I watched some TV.

For the second day in a row, I've thrown out a boxful of old stuff I no longer need (papers). It's easy to throw out papers; I can do it all day long. Books, on the other hand, are an entirely different story.

I just took a look on eBay to see whether books by Murray Rothbard command any reasonable prices, as I have an autographed copy of his one-volume Man, Economy, and State published by Nash in the early 70s. No dice. The only item on sale is going for a buck, although there are 5+ days left in the auction. I also looked to see if there is any demand for a shrink-wrapped copy of the ECCO organizer software, and came up with a goose egg there as well.

Anyway, a box of stuff thrown out here, and a box of stuff thrown out there... pretty soon, I'll have no more junk lying around!

Cheers...

20 Questions to a Better Personality

From here:

Wackiness: 30/100
Rationality: 66/100
Constructiveness: 72/100
Leadership: 32/100

You are an SRCF--Sober Rational Constructive Follower. This makes you a White House staffer. You are a tremendous asset to any employer, cool under pressure, productive, and a great communicator. You feel the need to right wrongs, take up slack, mediate disputes and keep the peace. This comes from a secret fear that business can't go on without you--or worse, that it can.

If you have a weakness, it is your inability to say "no." While your peers respect you, they find it difficult to resist taking advantage of your positive attitude and eagerness to take on work. You depend on a good manager to keep you from sinking under the weight and burning out.

Hmmm. I don't know about the "White House staffer" item, nor about the gratuitous editorial ("this comes from a secret fear..."), but I can't say the rest is all that inaccurate. (I would have expected the wackiness to be higher, until I sit down and really think about it. The same for leadership.)

Cheers...