The Aerie
Survived Thanksgiving intact. Well, mostly intact. I was getting ready to leave and bent over to give my smallest niece a hug, and when I straightened up my lower back twinged. It was sore for the rest of the night, but today it's a lot better although still sore. Highlight of Thanksgiving was playing four-person cribbage and beating two of my brothers-in-law, six games to zip. I couldn't make a wrong play - I'd draw 7789 and then cut an 8. It was sweet.
Today I've been working on the shower curtains that I'm going to be mounting in the upstairs bathroom. The curtain rod is an aluminum track that mounts directly on the ceiling. The upstairs bathroom has a low, angled ceiling under the roof, so I have had to find and custom bend the the track, a long U shape, with a bend at the top where the ceiling goes horizontal.
I'm also working on updating my server. It's very frustrating. Since I started using this, the server has stopped serving the printers correctly, and also my mailing lists have started failing, one by one. Not sure what the hell is going on. I've tried debugging the printer issues, but I can't find any informative log messages - but when I send a file to the printer, the file never prints, nor does it deliver an error. Sigh.
So I'm considering building a whole new server, but first I thought I'd make sure the operating system is fully up to date, and that there isn't some new fix that would make everything work properly. So I'm trying to update the system, and of course things fail to work. I get error messages that aren't found in Google searches, meaning I'm fairly unique. I tried installing from painstakingly downloaded DVD, no luck. Hung during the dependencies check - no error, just hung. Now I'm trying to do a network update, but I've had to uninstall seven packages that were having version problems, so I have to remember to add those back in later on.
It's all part of the Mummy's Curse that I've been laboring under since the 1970's...
Tonight my spouse wants to have Family Game Night, so that will be pleasant. Anything to extricate our kids from the video games. The other day she put up a ping-pong net on our dining room table, and managed to cajole the boys into playing. Once their competitive instincts kicked in they had a good time.
Now I'm sitting in my basement office, and outside the window it's pitch black at 5;30 p.m. And it's going to be like this for at least two more months. Makes me want to cry!
Well, the system needs a reboot, and my shower-curtain track needs attention, so back to it...
Posted by Albatross at November 23, 2007 5:30 PM | TrackBackWell as far as your Mummy's curse goes, it sounds like you've deeply embedded the idea that you are under some sort of 'spell' which forces things to 'go wrong' and not work out the way you want them to go. I'd advise you to read a book called "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" by Dr. Joseph Murphy. Your subconscious is realizing into real life nothing but the notions you've been holding since eons.
Posted by: Someone you've known at November 24, 2007 4:58 PM