An early start...

It was a good thing I decided to sleep in the spare bedroom, else I would probably not have found the summons I got in February in time to go down to the courthouse this morning to plead guilty and pay an additional $19 (court costs) on top of what I owed. The whole process took an hour, if you count the fact I showed up a half hour early in an attempt to pay the fine before court convened.

FWIW, Moleskine paper doesn't tolerate fountain pen or gel ink very well, in the sense that it both types of ink can be read from the other side of the paper (indeed, fountain pen ink will occasionally bleed through the fibers). The Miquelrius paper, on the other hand, is pretty opaque to ink. From the point of view of convenient use, however, the Moleskine beats the Miquelrius in that it will lie flat on a desk for reference.

The goal for the day is to finish the rest of the geology project. After that, we shall see what we shall see.

Cheers...

What kind of American English do I speak?

Your Linguistic Profile:

35% General American English

30% Yankee

15% Dixie

10% Midwestern

10% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

The result seems to jive with what I'd expect.

Cheers...

On track...

I finished today's portion of work in good time, and it doesn't seem to make sense to post yet another progress graphic (or any such graphics, unless I expect a project to run for more than a couple-three days). Tomorrow, I'll check the work, send it off, invoice it, and then start on the acoustics material, which beats geology any day.

My health appears to be improving, perhaps the result of improved sleep quality. It took me some time to fall asleep last night, too, and I woke up around 3 am (why, I don't know), but I was able to get up at 6:15 am without an alarm, in plenty of time to make my court appearance. I have not felt any urge to take a nap these past couple of days, and my BP seems to be behaving, as well.

Joshua Schachter is the spirit behind del.icio.us and posted the following a few days ago:

As you may know, I left my job a few weeks ago in order to devote myself full-time to del.icio.us. In order to make that posssible, I accepted an investment from a group of thoughtful and influential investors. The group I chose to work with understands my commitment to maintaining the integrity of the service and the security of your data. They were also willing to take a minority stake, which will keep me in control of the future of del.icio.us.

Nothing's to say that the site won't continue to maintain its integrity and security, but let's just say there may be some interesting forks in the road up ahead. Having massive bookmark collections on individuals has got to have some market value, if only in terms of targeting text ads to appear on the right-hand side of the page.

Cheers...