Ow.

Got four wisdom 
teeth yanked this morning.  I had been
scheduled to have it done on Jan. 17th, but someone 
cancelled so they moved it up.  I was okay until the 
painkillers (nitrous and novocaine for the procedure, 
Lortab for afterwards) wore off.  Now I'm a grumpy 
bastard until the Tylenol kicks in (I only took the Lortab
two hours ago, so I cant take any more for a while).
Ow ow ow.

First day of work after the Christmas holiday today. I trudged on in. Got to the office, and found that about 75% of the company had taken today off! There were only about 3 people in my entire building (we have 3 buildings in Austin). I worked until 5:45, went home... Got lots done, however.

Holy crap, batman!

Went with Amy to a hotel tonight, we thought we'd spend christmas eve at a nice hotel with a jacuzzi tub and soak and relax, etc.

We were there two hours, and I have a bad asthsma attack, so we decide to go home; screw the $102 for the room, I wanna be somewhere comfortable.

Got downstairs to check out, and apparently the place had been robbed five minutes before. I'm glad we didnt decide to leave five minutes earlier...

Bill

Havent updated in a while.  Been BUSY.

 
New home system: (for Linux testing and games)
Athlon (Thunderbird) 700Mhz, Chrome Orb heatsink/fan
ABit KT7 motherboard
256mb RAM
20Gig Maxtor IDE HD (5400RPM)
3Com 3C905 10/100base-T ethernet (PCI)
3dfx Voodoo 3/3000 2D/3D graphics (PCI)
Plextor 8/4/32 IDE CD-RW drive
VisionTech MVCast MPEG-2 realtime encoder card (for
digitizing movies and shows off my TiVo, onto VCDs that
I can play in the DVD player)
Cheap ALS400-based sound card (PCI)

 I'd kill for a GeForce 256 MX-based 32mb AGP video card,
but I cant justify replacing the V3/3000 just yet, since
it really does everything I need it to do, and I havent
found a game that *doesent* work with it yet (most problems
have been due to Win2K more than anything else), so I
guess I'll wait for them to stop updating the drivers before
I upgrade to a better card.  Compared to the Celeron 300/
Riva TNT-based system I had a year ago, I cant complain
about this setup at *all*.

 
New home system: (for REAL WORK!)
Sun Ultra 60
dual 360Mhz/4Mb-cache CPUs
dual 9Gig F/W/Ultra-SCSI HDs
Creator 3D/FFB2+ framebuffer
1Gig RAM (yes, 1024 megabytes!)
This is the system I do all the SunHELP development/testing
on, before I move things to the actual colocated server.

 So far, Christmas is boring and depressing.  

 Currently evaluating  
Miester Code versus the upcoming new release of
PHPWebLog for the
next reincarnation of the SunHELP web site, which will
happen between now and the first week of January (when
I'm taking a week off of work for vacation).

 Wasnt able to actually do much *work* this week - had to
work 16 hours over last weekend on a HP-UX 11.0 upgrade
project, then took Monday off as comp time.  Tuesday I
had to take off at 4pm for an emergency dentist's 
appointment, and then had some work done on Thursday,
causing me to take Thursday and Friday off due to being
doped up real good.  Vicodin is good stuff.

 

Oh yeah, picked up Amy from the airport tonight as well, she got back from a week away visiting friends and family. I'm glad she's home.