Archive for March, 2007

Down with the sickness!

Friday, March 30th, 2007

I haven’t updated this journal much because, well, I have been quite sick.

I have been feeling ill since irishcon 2007, and it only got worse when we got back to town. Thursday of last week I was feeling bad enough to go to the doctor.

Since TJ had strep throat recently, it was a safe bet that is what I had. The doctor agreed, and prescribed me some antibiotic called Keflex (spelling?). This got rid of some of my sickness, but I was still coughing after 5 days of taking it.

Going back to the doctor, he provided me with 7 days of another antibiotic, with the assumption that I have walking pneumonia. So, after 3 days of the new antibiotics I’m starting to feel more human.

St. Patrick's Day 2007

Monday, March 19th, 2007

This year for St. Patrick’s day Spoony’s friends Eric and Kat invited us to join them in Savannah, Georgia. There is apparently a big parade there on Paddy’s day. Who knew?

It turned out a fellow siner, mizgiwir lives in Savannah, so we made some plans to meet him. I also invited possum and yetr2 along, without really mentioning this to spoony…

Somehow or another Yetr2 ended up driving us in his parent’s van.

Through most of the trip I was sleeping, as I had (and have) a bad cold strep throat.

New GPG Key

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Chani brought to my attention today that I.. no longer have my GPG keypair. That is, good ol’ FB5312C2, which I’ve had since 2005, is dead. Luckily it expired…

I seem to have quite a few expired gpg keys.

Actually, except for 2006, I have made a new GPG key every year since 2001. This is not so good.

I have created a new GPG key pair (712EBBE1) which I hope is the last key I create for a while. Its fingerprint is 412C CCE9 DDA2 4FE9 C34F 754B 0863 0EA6 712E BBE1.

It’s been signed by at least Chani, and I’ll work on getting some meatspace people to sign it too.

Leap Forward

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Last night was leap-ahead night in the US, thanks to Congress changing when DST accures. Almost all my computer-based clocks updated properly, except for my handspring visor. The poor old thing is incapable of such updates, since all its programming is in ROM.

I will have to set its clock forward manually, and later set it back manually. As it thinks DST should happen in about three weeks. Fun stuff.

Helen Visit: Part 3

Monday, March 5th, 2007

We watched the rest of BPS, and then Boondock Saints. Good movie! Sometime between the two, Spoony went to sleep. I think Helen did not fancy Boondock Saints very much, but she stayed up for the whole thing. I stayed up a bit longer, playing some dragonball Z game with Josh. PB then started playing Vice City, and I was proceeded to be beaten at Mario Kart DS by Syrra.

At 3:00AM, we all called it quits.

Spoony woke me up with great effort. In my tired stupor, I tried to explain that because of the bag of remotes, I did not need to wake up. I do not remember this very well.

I managed to (finally) take some photos. I always forget such things. I’ll upload them soon.

We got Helen to the airport in good time, said our goodbyes, and came back home. Syrra and co. were still sleeping in our living room, so we went back to bed. I think we all managed to wake up at 11:00 or noon.

Apparently, we did not close chibi chii (our not-quite-adult cat) with us, so Josh had to defend himself with a broom all night long. He said he didn’t remember doing so at all.

After everyone was showered or otherwise clean, we set out in Josh’s car to get lunch and pocky. The first oriental market we went to was closed, so we went to the (much larger) one on 34th street. There was pocky and numerous other … things. Including some unlabled jerky / dehydrated meat. I was going to get it, but I chickened out in the end. It was probably just beef, but I didn’t feel like experimenting. We ate lunch at Marbo, a very good Californian-Chinese-American restuarant.

Of course, there was the incident with the egret and josh’s car, which deserves its own seperate entry.

Helen Visit: Part 2

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Morning: There are siners sleeping in my house! We all stayed up until about 3:00AM watching BPS and talking. Everyone but me is still asleep.

We have a schedule of sorts for today. We are going to eat breakfast at IHOP, and then go to the swampy park near my parent’s house. With any luck, helen will get to see an aligator, the quintessential animal of Florida (I think, anyway).

After that, we will stop by my parent’s house to be polite and suchlike.

Continuing south, we shall go over the Skyway (Helen wanted to see it) and to Anna Maria Island, so Syrra can see a beach. She has never seen one before.

PB also wants to stop at a Goodwill (a sort of thrift store) to see if they have any computer parts.

Evening: We did everything on the schedule, even though it was cold, wet, and cloudy. Helen must have brought the weather from England with her. At the park, helen took photos of PB and I comitting a misdemeanor, among lots of other photos. She also took a picture of the IHOP!

I think we all had entirely too much fun at the Goodwill, playing with various hats and things. I think both Spoony and Helen bought some books.

Helen Visit: Part 1

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Morning: Helen’s flight arrives tonight at around 11:00 pm, spoony and I are going to pick her up. Also, Syrra and PB are driving down from Georgia. Luckily we have two air mattresses.

Evening: We have Helen now, and we are back home. Syrra and PB were waiting in our driveway. And they brought their friend Josh with them.

Helen brought us chocolates and other candies that boyfriend Joe picked out. They’re good.

I think we are going to watch some Battle Programmer Shirase, since neither Syrra nor Helen