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I managed to recover MagicBane and the Orb of Fate with relative ease. Then I went and blew up my back of holding with all the nice items in it, after a nasty demon decided to curse it. I got it back to blessed status with only a handful of items lost, then I put the wrong wand in the bag, and BOOM! I lost all the candles I had found thusfar in the game, so now I have to bide my time and get some more. I just got a wand of polymorph, tho, so I may be able to recover....

Looking at the diaries, it seems that the current game of nethack has now spanned three months. It's definately the longest I've ever had....

I've also got the whole moving thing mostly worked out. I found out that the cable company doesn't set up any sort of appointment until you've moved in, if you only want bandwidth, and don't care for the television. Since I don't have a TV (and was looking forward to not having one), I don't really want the cable television. ADSL in the same area costs more for about the same or slightly less, and you have to fight for it on the waiting list. :(

So now I have everything ready for the big move, except for the bandwidth, which I've always said is the first thing to get sorted before moving. Oh well.

Does any other place out there have "running red light" cameras? These wonderful things take your picture if you are in the intersection when the light turns red. On a smoky Halloween night when it is hard enough to see in front of you, I feel that hitting the gas on the yellow light, and making it through the intersection, is a much better choice than hitting the brakes and risking the person behind you slamming into the back of you. I watched the camera flash in the rear view as I was going up the hill past the intersection, so maybe it is that it took a picture of nothing. If I end up getting a picture of my car, this is one I'll fight.

Why can't they get some decent code to factor things in like visibility? It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to do, really.

I dropped MagicBane and the Orb of Fate in Jubilex's lair. I have no way to get them back -- yet.

I visited a rather nice place on Sunday, only to find out that it was a Microwave. It had glass all along the outer wall, and a solarium. Since the whole place was a big solarium, I don't understand why there was a seperate room (which was large enough for a chair) as well.

Sunday night, Trakker lets me know of a vacancy in his building. I go by the next day, and now I've got the place part of moving solved. Now for the rest of it....

I updated this:

-----BEGIN NETHACK CODE BLOCK-----
NH 3.3.1L D rmurray-VF HP:180 Pw:62 AC:-25 N
[++ )+ P S+ D+ p+ $ t- s++ W+ E- PS PP G+ C-- I+++ !@W N b--
B Y+ X-- So++
Sp++ !sb wb-
-----END NETHACK CODE BLOCK-----
I got my name in the food-331.txt spoiler file, fixing up strength from giants. I guess I have a complaint that there is no nethack code for that!

Busy time lately, but I'm going to try to post a bit more often. I still need to move soon, and plan to do a lot of looking tomorrow, after I wake up from the ActiveState party tonight...

I've had a few good nethack games since the end of May. The last one ended abruptly with a trickery, because I somehow managed to get two nethacks running at once, and quit one. I've got a better game going now, however, and most of the office now has a new addiction...:)

CDs are coming along well, it actually installs something, and you can reboot into it. Soon I hope it will be done...

This diary entry is so late because I haven't had time lately, and I haven't had a weekend, either. I need to really look for a new place to live this weekend, so I'll be having one of them.

Big Blue Room is getting annoying, and causing allergies to appear yet again. I liked it better when you couldn't see the big yellow thing. :)

The moon isn't full, but a good game of nethack was happening. Until I wandered into two trolls in Sokoban, along with a ton of other nasties in the same room. I just wasn't ready to take on something quite that big, as my two weapon skill was only at basic...

Work work work. Building CDs and fixing things that hold up the process. That's what I've been concentrating on.

I also need to find a place to move to, sometime in the not so distant future. That also means cleaning up and packing things. Oh, for hours_in_day++

straylight:~$ pom
The Moon is Full
straylight:~$ nethack

That's where I want to be. But there's this silly CD thing I'm supposed to build. Hrrrrrmmmmm....

Oh well, maybe I'll get to play some and will still be able to get some sleep. Earlier this week had some problems in the sleeping area, and last night getting 8 hours was great!

Ahh, the weekend is here. I didn't get everything I needed done in the week, but I need a break from looking at CD build scripts. So I did another in-place Slackware->Debian upgrade for a system that had been hacked. It is a bad sign when the update daemon used by older kernels enters promiscuous when it starts at boot, and the root directory has a .bash_history file showing someone creating a bindshell...

I said I'd spend some time on Nethack this weekend. I did! I spent most of Saturday playing nethack. While playing nethack, the Debian DAM got to processing my application, so now I am a Debian Developer.

I must do something about this staying up late thing. Going to bed at 4-5AM makes it difficult to get up during the week at the times that one should wake up.

Oh, I really need to get some car insurance tomorrow, before I end up looking at the back of my car some morning and see that it expired a few weeks ago. Or one of those friendly cars with red and blue lights notices.

I keep losing track of the day. Wednesday was particularly bad, in which I really, really, thought it was Tuesday for some reason. Today was a bit easier, but not that much...

A GDM buffer overflow came out this week to bugtraq, in the XDMCP packet parsing. Debian wasn't vulnerable in the default configuration (XDMCP is disabled), but several people do turn it on. I still haven't received the message on my subscription that I can see, but I had a bug filed with the forwarded message, and had an updated package available within a few hours, including a bunch of other fixes as well...

Building CDs is the fun of the week, and I think I might have something useful soon

Nethack!

I got a short bit of nethacking in tonight. I really need to spend some time there this weekend and call relax();

I'm still sick. Got lots of sleep, but I"ll have to repeat that again if it is to help. Stayed off the health drink today, as I didn't go into the big blue room at all. Was able to breathe just fine, so maybe it is the big blue room disagreeing with me.

cleaned up a slackware->potato upgrade. There is something just sick, wrong, and fun about going to a directory like /usr/bin and deleting things all over.

Got some of that code stuff done. I think the network module for SAS is pretty much finished, and with the installation module already finished, that means it is time to move on to setting up a new CD build process before that deadline thingy comes up...

I am going to reserve some time for nethack tomorrow. The moon may be only 15% full, but it's been the time that I've had my best games. I always seem to do better closer to the new moon rather than the full moon, even though the code is written opposite to that. How strange.

sickness continues. it really sucks. tried some health drink, and I can breathe again. I think I'll be continuing on that track... Ears are also feeling better. Now if I can just get the cough and the concentration under control, I'll be in great shape!

sness e-mailed to mention that I could recover the lost nethack game, but I won't gain back the full moon luck, which is why I left it running how I did in the first place. Oh well. Introduced wes to nethack, who has never played before. We must work on this.

I'm just too lazy to make the above links. We really need a person html quick expander. Oh well.

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