So, we’ve been redecorating since the flood, and things are
looking nice around here. We’ve got a lamp in the bedroom/computer
room!
The bad news is my desktop machine, Loki, decided to die.
It’s the power supply, which toasted the motherboard. RAM, video
card, and most importantly SATA harddrive should be okay.
I played DND (Dungeons and Dragons) with Possum, JasonFM, and
Teeter today. It was a good session, with a very strange closing.
Jason accidently killed a dragon with a misfired arrow!
And there was a crazy man at the restuarant we played at. Best
quote: “You’re cyborgs, right?”
Last night the landlord (Victor) called and said carpet-men
would be over to install new carpeting. (Also, yesterday someone
came and installed a new wax ring on the toilet…)
So, now we have nice new carpeting in both the living room and
TJ’s bedroom. Hurrah!
Today started out fine. I woke up early, before spoony, and made
her breakfast: bacon and toast. Sadly we didn’t have any eggs.
After this, I hacked on the computer a bit, figuring out how to
have a blog working and such. (I ended up using wordpress).
Anyway, we also tried to wash the dog. It went alright, except
he started bleeding from a bump he has on his tail, which made us
stop sooner than expected.
Next, it was spoony’s turn to bathe, which she did. However,
after this, the tub would not drain. I went at it with a plunger
for a while, to no avail. I also noticed the toilet would not
flush. I then called that landlord, and we left for my parents
house so I could, er, shower. At this point I was covered in
poo-water… Well, it didn’t have poo in it. I think.
After I showered at my folks’ place, we went to the Marbo and
ate yummy chinese food.
We returned home to find that Victor, our landlord, had started
fixing the problem. The first evidence of this was the brown…
material in the tub. And the fact that the bathroom was
flooding.
So, yeah. Most of the living room and TJ’s bedroom got flooded,
and it’s been pretty much a nightmare. However, spoony and I have
mostly not fought over this. We both got a bit snippy, but for the
most part we’ve been laughing hysterically.
Today was a remarkably productive. Resuming the work I started
last night on my remind2pda script, I figured out why it was
crashing my handspring visor. Apparently it doesn’t you can’t have
repeating entries with a frequency of 0! Oops.
The second problem was not my fault, but the documentation of
Palm::Datebook. The perldoc states:
The number of the week on which the event occurs. 0 means the
first week of the month, 1 means the second week of the month, and
so forth. A value of 5 means that the event occurs on the last week
of the month
However, that is a lie! A value of 4 means the last week of the
month, and a value of 5 causes a strange bug that makes all events
appear on the 00th day of the next month.
I also got tired of parsing devtodo’s XML files, so I rewrote
devtodo in perl, and using YAML to store todo lists in. More on
this later.
Spoony and I tried to get cables to sync our phones using
bitpim I was
able to find a cable for my phone (a nokia 2810i or something), but
not for spoony’s LG VX3400. However, the phone cable I got doesn’t
seem to be acting like a proper USB device.