Spent four days renovating new apartment. All the schedules were fubar. Not a single delivery arrived on time, not a single event occurred during its window. These are lessons in project management- never have more than one task at a time on the critical path and avoid scheduling your tasks based upon someone else's coordination.
Moved in while the subcontractors were working on the floors. Everything has a fine layer of sawdust. Boxes everywhere, can't find my work ID. We're camping in the living room as we set up the rest of the space. I couldn't find the alarm clock last night but it didn't matter because without blinds on the windows, I get a 6:30am wake up from the sun. Oh, yeah, that's what daylight looks like!
Yesterday I wrapped my potted tree in a couple of black vinyl contractor bags and duct taped it tight and shut, put the top down on the Cabrio, and drove up I-95 through 34F temperatures with a 35Mph cross-wind to the new apartment. I got a lot of gawking stares. I've had it since it was a eight-inch tall desk plant and I'm not giving it up just because the movers won't transport plants and it won't fit in a SUV. It should really thrive in the bright light of the new place.

Last Thursday, the morning we started fixing up the new place, I dropped my three-year-old Palm Pilot in a fit of caffeine-deprivation so in addition to being offline, I'm also out of luck. Year 2000 was the first year I didn't keep double-entries in a paper planner and the pilot, part of weaning myself off the physical book.
Ouch.
Got a new pilot, the 3XE, and found that I can't restore the 400 or so entries in my Address book. Or the 2700+ entries in Datebook4.
Ouch.
At least my memos and the account data I keep in Strip successfully restored. I hope to sync the old one and restore it to the new one. I use JPilot, a GTK wrapper for pilot-link, but neglected to install the better backup conduit so this might be a no go.

Amusing Observation:
You can tell real geek by the order in which he sets up his apartment. This time it goes: bathroom (1st), kitchen (2nd), and computer (3rd). Other rooms follow. Had my significant other not insisted, the above order would be reversed and I would be back online. The only reason I have a system running is because she agreed (more shrugged assent) I should sync up the new Pilot.

Unsurprisingly, I've made little contribution to any software. Not at work- where I've turned up three days in the past two weeks- or on my own stuff. Next two weeks are vacation, so I'm not going to get anything done then either. One thing I probably will do is finally spend some time on Scheme. LispMe for the Pilot and a few documents will accompany me on my trip.