Signs that it's spring

Every time I read the word "parking" I have a mini panic-attack. Shit was I supposed to move it today which side am I on what day is it -- oh, OK, NM.

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A most excellent prank: Anton Chekov, apparently forgetting that he died 100 years ago, appears unnanounced at a Barnes & Noble for a reading and signing. Reactions from civilians and store employees cover the whole range and are wonderful. (link from jazzfish)

The crowd clapped as we exited the stage.  Tom instructed me to take our sign down, and then walked over to the other sign and handed it to ["Chekov"] very politely.  I went up to him and shook his hand, thanking him for having us.  He smiled and replied, "You bet.  Please come back the next time he writes a new play."

First real vaca day

I managed to put Stilton on the Web, thanks to the voodoo of mod_rewrite. (Kind of proud that I did it all by myself; usually I beg help from daerr over such things.) No real content there yet, but I have some ideas. You bet I'm inspired by the thought of my desktop machine being a global webserver, once again.

Lots of cleaning yesterday. I have acres of paper recycling to take out, and the bags to take them out in.

Jmac's Home Ec Tip: If you're running low on paper bags, order Chinese.

Still no travel plans. I think any traveling I'm gonna do over this break will occur quite spontaneously, and only after I feel I've run out of things to do here (or am tired of doing them).

This afternoon I have snipped off a final tendril of dangling ICCB work left over from Friday, and feeling legendarily behind in Volity work (still working on the dev guide). Will now go to the Diesel to get back into it, where hopefully I won't curse at the fact that it's inexplicably full at 2:30pm on a weekday. Don't you people have jobs?! (Well, if it is full, I'll go to that new Ball Square place instead. Maybe I'll go there first, actually...)

Mac App OTD

"rsync is your friend", sez keimel after I complain about Apple wanting $100 for .Mac before iSync will balance my two Macs' address book databases. But who needs rsync (for this particular task, anyway) when there's Address-O-Sync? Questionable name, crunchy interface (it took me a while to figure out that I had to press the 'sync' button on both computers before the magic happened), but it does the trick.