Motto

The Universe has a limited amount of energy, and I intend to use my share productively.

Friday, April 09, 2010

09 April 2010

Yesterday I left testing around 4:15 PM and headed to the drug store.  I bought a couple of things and then headed for my room.  Unfortunately, my keycard didn't let me into the 4th floor hall, after I had climbed three flights of stairs, of course.  Hauling all of my bags and stuff, I went to the front desk and they said that the cards stop working sometimes for unknown reasons.  The clerk offered me a wine ticket to be used in the restaurant and setup a wake up call for me.  I went to my room, dropped my stuff and called and talked to Chris and the kids.  They were watching a movie, so we didn't talk long. Then I went down to the bar.  Almost no one was there.  The bartender asked if I wanted to take my wine back to my room.  I hadn't thought that was an option, but it sounded better than sitting in a bar by myself, writing in my daybook.  On my way back to my room, I stopped in the market and bought a small carton of milk to have with my dinner.

I had leftovers from the previous night's dinner at the Faultline Brewery.  It was a salad with blackened salmon, so I figured it would be just fine straight from my refrigerator.  And it was.  Salad, wine, smoked gouda, crackers, strawberries, and then milk and a bit of chocolate.  Very nice.  I talked with Rosie and made plans to pick her up for dinner in Santa Cruz tonight.  She was happy and excited.  I'm sure it will be nice.  I will leave testing as soon as I can get out, maybe as early as 3:30.  This will help me minimize traffic getting to Santa Cruz on a Friday afternoon.  Minimize, but not avoid.

After that, I poked around on the internet for awhile and stumbled upon the MIRA newsletters.  One of them had brief bios for Russ, Martin, Sumita, and I.  I sent it to Scott Friedman and he found it interesting.  Time flies when you aren't paying attention.

When I got into testing this morning, Chad had already made a backup of yesterday's data and moved it to the networked terminal.  He copied it from the external disk to the internal disk.  Then I connected my laptop to the network and our external drive and started an rsync of yesterday's backup.  It finished without incident.  By midmorning, Chad asked if I wanted to take a turn doing the processing.  

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