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Apr. 30th, 2009 08:07 pmDrew came by this morning to help me move the heavier items out of the truck. I must be getting old, because I used to figure out ways to unload heavy items by myself. Old, or smarter.
Old, more than likely. Drew turns 30 in a few days.
Thirty.
What was I doing when I was thirty? Where was I living? Ah, yes... it comes back to me. (They say the memory is the second thing to go!)
Galina and I were living in Jacksonville, Florida, in a house on Bartram Road. I worked at a company that described itself as an "architect-engineer-planner," and if I recall correctly, I had been at the company for just over three years and was the newest addition to the instrumentation and controls department, thanks to having taken a course in BASIC programming while in college.
Sigh.
I multitasked for much of today, stopping long enough to translate the item due tomorrow morning (a despeckling copy is waiting for me on the dining room table upstairs). Another job came in for Monday morning, which is a good sign.
I used the mixer we brought from New York to make dough for pelmeni, and although it does a stand-up job, I'm thinking the hardware is overkill for its intended purpose. What I really need for industrial-quantity pelmeni fabrication is an automatic dough roller. (While I'm fantasizing, perhaps an automatic pelmeni-maker would actually solve all of my outstanding problems in the pelmeni-making department.)
I'm having the devil's own time installing the latest Ubuntu on an old Dell we brought from New York. First, I apparently downloaded a bad CD image, because all attempts to burn the image to disk ended in the same failure (and a wasted disk). Next, the first time I burned the next downloaded image to CD, I didn't do so properly, causing a major snafu during installation. The same image properly burned to CD has has taken forever and a day to install because of problems formatting partitions on the computer's hard drive.
Technically, I'm not even sure Ubuntu has installed, as I have yet to go back upstairs and check the result of the operation, which ought to have completed some time ago after I apparently solved the formatting problem by deleting the old partition table and creating a new, identical one in its place.
I need to go despeckle a printout and then go relax. Hey, maybe even eat dinner!
Cheers...
Old, more than likely. Drew turns 30 in a few days.
Thirty.
What was I doing when I was thirty? Where was I living? Ah, yes... it comes back to me. (They say the memory is the second thing to go!)
Galina and I were living in Jacksonville, Florida, in a house on Bartram Road. I worked at a company that described itself as an "architect-engineer-planner," and if I recall correctly, I had been at the company for just over three years and was the newest addition to the instrumentation and controls department, thanks to having taken a course in BASIC programming while in college.
Sigh.
I multitasked for much of today, stopping long enough to translate the item due tomorrow morning (a despeckling copy is waiting for me on the dining room table upstairs). Another job came in for Monday morning, which is a good sign.
I used the mixer we brought from New York to make dough for pelmeni, and although it does a stand-up job, I'm thinking the hardware is overkill for its intended purpose. What I really need for industrial-quantity pelmeni fabrication is an automatic dough roller. (While I'm fantasizing, perhaps an automatic pelmeni-maker would actually solve all of my outstanding problems in the pelmeni-making department.)
I'm having the devil's own time installing the latest Ubuntu on an old Dell we brought from New York. First, I apparently downloaded a bad CD image, because all attempts to burn the image to disk ended in the same failure (and a wasted disk). Next, the first time I burned the next downloaded image to CD, I didn't do so properly, causing a major snafu during installation. The same image properly burned to CD has has taken forever and a day to install because of problems formatting partitions on the computer's hard drive.
Technically, I'm not even sure Ubuntu has installed, as I have yet to go back upstairs and check the result of the operation, which ought to have completed some time ago after I apparently solved the formatting problem by deleting the old partition table and creating a new, identical one in its place.
I need to go despeckle a printout and then go relax. Hey, maybe even eat dinner!
Cheers...
