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Sep. 25th, 2003
Waiting waiting waiting
Sep. 25th, 2003 11:18 amI'm waiting for Mom to call me. I'm waiting for a package to come in today's mail from a vendor. I'm waiting for artwork to come in via email from another vendor. I'm waiting waiting waiting...
And while I'm waiting,
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fj gave me a great idea.... He posted a link to one of Nokia's up and coming cool new products which is a digital frame fed by cellphone. That got me thinking about digial frames. I've had such fun watching the RedHat screen saver on the computer behind me, I thought, wouldn't it be cool to have a digital frame here on my desk running the RedHat screen saver? I have a 400 year old Toshiba that is good for next to nothing. It's such a dog that I toss it into Kenny's kennel of computer hardware bits and pieces here at work. We dug it out - I'm thinking if I can get it to recognize his PCMCIA CD drive then maybe I could load RedHat and set it up just to run the screen saver and amuse me.
It actually powered up - Windows98 with a whopping 24 MB of RAM. It wants a driver for the CD drive. Sigh. There is a network card in the side... hmmm wonder if I can find a dongle.
Mom's last email which said she got a big ugly message and lost her systray came in about 3 hours ago. It's what led to my
The mail just came in and the package wasn't in there. Sigh.
So... I'm still waiting.
Waiting waiting waiting
Sep. 25th, 2003 11:18 amI'm waiting for Mom to call me. I'm waiting for a package to come in today's mail from a vendor. I'm waiting for artwork to come in via email from another vendor. I'm waiting waiting waiting...
And while I'm waiting,
fj gave me a great idea.... He posted a link to one of Nokia's up and coming cool new products which is a digital frame fed by cellphone. That got me thinking about digial frames. I've had such fun watching the RedHat screen saver on the computer behind me, I thought, wouldn't it be cool to have a digital frame here on my desk running the RedHat screen saver? I have a 400 year old Toshiba that is good for next to nothing. It's such a dog that I toss it into Kenny's kennel of computer hardware bits and pieces here at work. We dug it out - I'm thinking if I can get it to recognize his PCMCIA CD drive then maybe I could load RedHat and set it up just to run the screen saver and amuse me.
It actually powered up - Windows98 with a whopping 24 MB of RAM. It wants a driver for the CD drive. Sigh. There is a network card in the side... hmmm wonder if I can find a dongle.
Mom's last email which said she got a big ugly message and lost her systray came in about 3 hours ago. It's what led to my
The mail just came in and the package wasn't in there. Sigh.
So... I'm still waiting.
I was wrong
Sep. 25th, 2003 01:20 pmkjaz called this one perfectly even when I told him he was wrong. I just ordered 2 more afghans worth of yarn from my favorite yarn place. I was doing fine. I was resisting. I was going to make it and then... they sent an email that my favorite yarn was nearly half off. Now how stupid would it have been to blow off free shipping and sale yarn???? So now I have yarn to keep me working on afghans through about May of 2004. Geesh.
I started a new one this week. It's a pattern that I have made a million times. When I was just out of college and all my friends were getting married, they each got one - ivory yarn. It's been fun, over the years, to visit them all over the country and see my afghans still doing hard work.
So somehow this particular pattern has become, in my mind, a weddng afghan and the one I'm knitting now is for my friend, Scott and his bride who are getting married in April. I don't know her at all. But, even though they are in their 40s, this is the first marriage for both and I think probably wedding presents will be kind of a big deal for them. Since they live in New Zealand and I don't want to pay to air freight this baby so I need to get it into the 'slow boat' mail by at least the end of the year. I will have it done well before then.
And in other news...
Mom is now back online. When I hadn't heard from her and still could ping her, I finally called. She said 'well, I sent you a note saying that I thought it was a Comcast problem.' I almost couldn't tell she was kidding until she started giggling. We recycled the modem and rebooted and all was again right with the world. I'm always so grateful when she gets back on line and she's always so sanguine. "But you can always fix it."
And while we were waiting for the thing to come back on line she said that for the past week all she has heard from everyone is how well she looks. "I'm beginning to think that I truely must have looked like shit for months!"
I was wrong
Sep. 25th, 2003 01:20 pmkjaz called this one perfectly even when I told him he was wrong. I just ordered 2 more afghans worth of yarn from my favorite yarn place. I was doing fine. I was resisting. I was going to make it and then... they sent an email that my favorite yarn was nearly half off. Now how stupid would it have been to blow off free shipping and sale yarn???? So now I have yarn to keep me working on afghans through about May of 2004. Geesh.
I started a new one this week. It's a pattern that I have made a million times. When I was just out of college and all my friends were getting married, they each got one - ivory yarn. It's been fun, over the years, to visit them all over the country and see my afghans still doing hard work.
So somehow this particular pattern has become, in my mind, a weddng afghan and the one I'm knitting now is for my friend, Scott and his bride who are getting married in April. I don't know her at all. But, even though they are in their 40s, this is the first marriage for both and I think probably wedding presents will be kind of a big deal for them. Since they live in New Zealand and I don't want to pay to air freight this baby so I need to get it into the 'slow boat' mail by at least the end of the year. I will have it done well before then.
And in other news...
Mom is now back online. When I hadn't heard from her and still could ping her, I finally called. She said 'well, I sent you a note saying that I thought it was a Comcast problem.' I almost couldn't tell she was kidding until she started giggling. We recycled the modem and rebooted and all was again right with the world. I'm always so grateful when she gets back on line and she's always so sanguine. "But you can always fix it."
And while we were waiting for the thing to come back on line she said that for the past week all she has heard from everyone is how well she looks. "I'm beginning to think that I truely must have looked like shit for months!"
Ok, I'm stumped
Sep. 25th, 2003 06:00 pmFor some reason that I cannot understand, the photos that vwaffle posts in his journal will not render in any browser on my home machine. Work is fine. Home is broken images.
When I go for an individual URL like http://www.wonderboymi.com/vwaffle/4091.jpg at work, I get a wonderful picture. At home I get "You don't have permission to access /vwaffle/4091.jpg on this server."
I even disabled my firewall - knowing full well that had nothing to do with it - and it made no difference. I don't get any other broken images - but the ones on his server never render correctly at home. It's making me nuts!
Ok, I'm stumped
Sep. 25th, 2003 06:00 pmFor some reason that I cannot understand, the photos that vwaffle posts in his journal will not render in any browser on my home machine. Work is fine. Home is broken images.
When I go for an individual URL like http://www.wonderboymi.com/vwaffle/4091.jpg at work, I get a wonderful picture. At home I get "You don't have permission to access /vwaffle/4091.jpg on this server."
I even disabled my firewall - knowing full well that had nothing to do with it - and it made no difference. I don't get any other broken images - but the ones on his server never render correctly at home. It's making me nuts!
