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.