over the weekend, i finished up installing a linux box acting as a firewall/masq-router for a family friend. and he *gives* me an awesome portable combination cdplayer/mp3oncd player. mp3trip, i believe it's called. my goodness it's cool. what a generous guy! anyway, if my diary entry sounds a little cloud9-ish, you know why.

i'm not doing terribly much w/ regards to free software at the moment. more like keeping my head above water at school and work. at a meeting today, my boss john and i had a very interesting discussion of machine groupings. what we're doing now (cluttered nis netgroup map, cluttered rdist groupings, cluttered runem groupings) should get elegant here soon.

i'm going to try to get reacquainted with my keyboard at home. it really has been quite some time since i've worked at improving my piano skills and it's begining to show in my playing. i'm looking forward to getting to the next-level. heck, i need to do this with my guitar playing as well. inch by inch...