Ahhhhhhh!
This cracks me up!!! Check out page 4 of this PDF file for some computer graphics course in a German university. Weird, weird, weird.
2003/02/28
Friday!
Woo hoo!
Well, I've dumped a bunch of chlorine and non-chlorinated shocker into the jacuzzi, and it is getting better. Water doesn't smell anymore, and possibly isn't cloudy anymore, but it's sort of hard to tell (especially when the water is steaming). So, yay. I put more in yesterday, and more in this morning, and have been measuring different levels and whatnot. I think it's on the road to recovery. We haven't gotten any infections at least.
I'm glad it's Friday. Last weekend was busy enough that it went by pretty quick. This weekend is going to be a little quieter, but not much. Tonight, Diana and I have no plans by design, which is nice. I was asked if I wanted to play softball tonight with some work folks, and said I couldn't because I had plans tonight. My friend asked what I was doing, and I said "nothing". It was sort of funny.
Tomorrow, I'm golfing with my work-boy Eric while his wife is having a baby-shower (which Diana is going to). Iwan is coming along, which I'm really happy about, because I wouldn't really know anyone else except Eric. I wonder how the baby-shower will affect Diana? She indicated she's not in a hurry to have kids (neither am I). But I can see going to a shower like this either reinforcing or breaking down that opinion. But I think we've got an understanding: marriage (done), house (mostly done), puppy (not yet), kids (way off).
Tomorrow night some peeps are going out for a friends birthday, which should be fun. Then no plans for Sunday, which should be fun, too.
Woo hoo!
Well, I've dumped a bunch of chlorine and non-chlorinated shocker into the jacuzzi, and it is getting better. Water doesn't smell anymore, and possibly isn't cloudy anymore, but it's sort of hard to tell (especially when the water is steaming). So, yay. I put more in yesterday, and more in this morning, and have been measuring different levels and whatnot. I think it's on the road to recovery. We haven't gotten any infections at least.
I'm glad it's Friday. Last weekend was busy enough that it went by pretty quick. This weekend is going to be a little quieter, but not much. Tonight, Diana and I have no plans by design, which is nice. I was asked if I wanted to play softball tonight with some work folks, and said I couldn't because I had plans tonight. My friend asked what I was doing, and I said "nothing". It was sort of funny.
Tomorrow, I'm golfing with my work-boy Eric while his wife is having a baby-shower (which Diana is going to). Iwan is coming along, which I'm really happy about, because I wouldn't really know anyone else except Eric. I wonder how the baby-shower will affect Diana? She indicated she's not in a hurry to have kids (neither am I). But I can see going to a shower like this either reinforcing or breaking down that opinion. But I think we've got an understanding: marriage (done), house (mostly done), puppy (not yet), kids (way off).
Tomorrow night some peeps are going out for a friends birthday, which should be fun. Then no plans for Sunday, which should be fun, too.
2003/02/26
Smelly!
Well, I knew it was too good to last. The fact that I don't know jack about spa care has caught up with me. I went to put some pre-dip chlorine in the jacuzzi, and lifted the cover and noticed it was cloudy and smelled pretty musty. It's dark out, but the water might have been greenish? Hard to say. I've been chlorinating it multiple times a week, though, and shocking/superchlorinating on the weekends, but maybe not enough. I just dumped a bunch of crap in there, so we'll see how it goes, I guess. It's easy enough to do a do-over.
And I really wanted to go in tonight, too. Bummer.
Well, I knew it was too good to last. The fact that I don't know jack about spa care has caught up with me. I went to put some pre-dip chlorine in the jacuzzi, and lifted the cover and noticed it was cloudy and smelled pretty musty. It's dark out, but the water might have been greenish? Hard to say. I've been chlorinating it multiple times a week, though, and shocking/superchlorinating on the weekends, but maybe not enough. I just dumped a bunch of crap in there, so we'll see how it goes, I guess. It's easy enough to do a do-over.
And I really wanted to go in tonight, too. Bummer.
Happy!
No reason, just happy. The last couple days have been really stressful for whatever reason (lack of sleep, worrying about rain). I go between really worrying about the house sitting in water to realizing that it's probably been doing the very same for the last 2-10 years. A couple more bouts of rain probably won't do more damage than has already been done. Anyhoo.
I'm continuing to read Shogun and love it. I enjoy reading, but never really have gotten all that into the books that I'm reading. I remember my girlfriend in high school telling me once that she was reading a book and got so scared/shocked that she actually dropped the book. That's not so much me. But Shogun rocks. I've totally into it. If you're reading this, you should be reading that.
Work is going well. I've been offically trained in BizTalk, which is Microsofts new thing. I've had literally nothing to do all day except teach myself (and expand on what I've already learned in training this week), and it's a lot of fun. I haven't sat down and worked on something uninterrupted for 7 hours before, and it's a good feeling.
That's about it for now.
No reason, just happy. The last couple days have been really stressful for whatever reason (lack of sleep, worrying about rain). I go between really worrying about the house sitting in water to realizing that it's probably been doing the very same for the last 2-10 years. A couple more bouts of rain probably won't do more damage than has already been done. Anyhoo.
I'm continuing to read Shogun and love it. I enjoy reading, but never really have gotten all that into the books that I'm reading. I remember my girlfriend in high school telling me once that she was reading a book and got so scared/shocked that she actually dropped the book. That's not so much me. But Shogun rocks. I've totally into it. If you're reading this, you should be reading that.
Work is going well. I've been offically trained in BizTalk, which is Microsofts new thing. I've had literally nothing to do all day except teach myself (and expand on what I've already learned in training this week), and it's a lot of fun. I haven't sat down and worked on something uninterrupted for 7 hours before, and it's a good feeling.
That's about it for now.
2003/02/25
Sleepy
Last night it was pouring. The first rain since I put up the new rain gutter. I woke up to the rain, and couldn't go back to sleep until I checked to see if everything was working. It seemed to be working mostly ok, with a couple of drips where the water wasn't quite getting in the gutter. But no big deal. So I tried to get back to sleep. This was at 2:30am. At around 4am I took half a Benedryl, apparently that did the trick. I woke up again around 7, totally out of it, to Diana worrying about various water collecting around various parts of the house. I put a strategically placed screw into the gutter to hold it closer to the house at one point, and figured if it hadn't washed away in the last 30 years, one more day wasn't going to hurt, and left for work.
Can someone tell me how big a problem if there are puddles of water that are in the dirt next to the house? The way I understand it, the water can soften the dirt and the house can settle a little more easily and can cause cracks. Does this happen over a period of days, weeks, months, or years of moisture?
Anyways, we need to talk to someone about landscaping a couple areas of the house so that the ground slopes away and carries the water away. I think I need to redo the gutter along that roofline, and clean out some other ones so they don't overflow. And it would be REALLY nice to attach some of the other downspouts to the existing drainage system, but that's a big job.
Anyhoo, lots of work to do.
Last night it was pouring. The first rain since I put up the new rain gutter. I woke up to the rain, and couldn't go back to sleep until I checked to see if everything was working. It seemed to be working mostly ok, with a couple of drips where the water wasn't quite getting in the gutter. But no big deal. So I tried to get back to sleep. This was at 2:30am. At around 4am I took half a Benedryl, apparently that did the trick. I woke up again around 7, totally out of it, to Diana worrying about various water collecting around various parts of the house. I put a strategically placed screw into the gutter to hold it closer to the house at one point, and figured if it hadn't washed away in the last 30 years, one more day wasn't going to hurt, and left for work.
Can someone tell me how big a problem if there are puddles of water that are in the dirt next to the house? The way I understand it, the water can soften the dirt and the house can settle a little more easily and can cause cracks. Does this happen over a period of days, weeks, months, or years of moisture?
Anyways, we need to talk to someone about landscaping a couple areas of the house so that the ground slopes away and carries the water away. I think I need to redo the gutter along that roofline, and clean out some other ones so they don't overflow. And it would be REALLY nice to attach some of the other downspouts to the existing drainage system, but that's a big job.
Anyhoo, lots of work to do.
2003/02/21
Friday!
Woo hoo! Nothing like a short week. This weekend should be pretty busy. Out to dinner tonight. Golf tomorrow. Basketball game tomorrow night. Fun fun fun!
I feel terrible. Diana sometimes makes me lunches in the morning in a save-money type of move. This morning, though, was trash and recycling pickup day, and I have a horrible feeling that I confused my lunch (which is in a plastic supermarket bag) for recycling and left it by the curb. Either that or it's still in the fridge. Anyways, I think I'm going to drive home real quick at lunchtime and see if I can find it, and also pick up some clothes for tonight.
Work is pretty slow. I'm off one project, but haven't really started on the next one, so I'm just sort of treading water and helping out here and there, and doing some self-education on the stuff I'm going to be working on. It's nice to not be so busy after the push we had recently.
Woo hoo! Nothing like a short week. This weekend should be pretty busy. Out to dinner tonight. Golf tomorrow. Basketball game tomorrow night. Fun fun fun!
I feel terrible. Diana sometimes makes me lunches in the morning in a save-money type of move. This morning, though, was trash and recycling pickup day, and I have a horrible feeling that I confused my lunch (which is in a plastic supermarket bag) for recycling and left it by the curb. Either that or it's still in the fridge. Anyways, I think I'm going to drive home real quick at lunchtime and see if I can find it, and also pick up some clothes for tonight.
Work is pretty slow. I'm off one project, but haven't really started on the next one, so I'm just sort of treading water and helping out here and there, and doing some self-education on the stuff I'm going to be working on. It's nice to not be so busy after the push we had recently.
2003/02/19
Healthy!
Well, I either dodged a bullet or am busy harboring an army of stealthy cold and flu virii ready to launch a full attack. I went to bed last night feeling pretty beat up and my throat still feeling a little funny, but I woke up this morning in perfect health. Maybe I can get through this season unharmed. I hope so.
I'm continuing to read Shogun and loving it. I really like how the characters are introduced in a little fish, bigger fish, biggest fish sort of way (specifically, Mura, Omi, Yabu, Hiro-Matsu, Toshanga, each a higher level up than the previous). It really builds up well.
Dad got back from Montana last night. I'm hoping we can work on our fish sometime this week. We had an initial burst of buying supplies, but haven't done anything else yet.
Letsee. Tonight is Wednesday. A brief respite between last nights "Real World" (this season sucks) and tomorrows "Survivor" and "ER" double whammy. No plans for the evening, but hopefully something quiet and relaxing. Have some dinner (I have leftover BBQ Chicken pizza from lunch) with Diana, soak in the spa, read some Shogun, go to bed. Sounds nice to me.
OH! And our first turn was run in our VGA Planets game (the fact that the game advertises that it's in "VGA" should tell you how old it is). So we now have turn two, which I'll have to check out when I get home.
Well, I either dodged a bullet or am busy harboring an army of stealthy cold and flu virii ready to launch a full attack. I went to bed last night feeling pretty beat up and my throat still feeling a little funny, but I woke up this morning in perfect health. Maybe I can get through this season unharmed. I hope so.
I'm continuing to read Shogun and loving it. I really like how the characters are introduced in a little fish, bigger fish, biggest fish sort of way (specifically, Mura, Omi, Yabu, Hiro-Matsu, Toshanga, each a higher level up than the previous). It really builds up well.
Dad got back from Montana last night. I'm hoping we can work on our fish sometime this week. We had an initial burst of buying supplies, but haven't done anything else yet.
Letsee. Tonight is Wednesday. A brief respite between last nights "Real World" (this season sucks) and tomorrows "Survivor" and "ER" double whammy. No plans for the evening, but hopefully something quiet and relaxing. Have some dinner (I have leftover BBQ Chicken pizza from lunch) with Diana, soak in the spa, read some Shogun, go to bed. Sounds nice to me.
OH! And our first turn was run in our VGA Planets game (the fact that the game advertises that it's in "VGA" should tell you how old it is). So we now have turn two, which I'll have to check out when I get home.
2003/02/18
Scared.
I'm petrified of getting sick. Diana was pretty miserable yesterday. People here at work are dropping like flies. 3 people I work with pretty closely are all out sick at the moment. And my throat is starting to tickle, or is it in my head?
I don't want to get sick. :(
I'm petrified of getting sick. Diana was pretty miserable yesterday. People here at work are dropping like flies. 3 people I work with pretty closely are all out sick at the moment. And my throat is starting to tickle, or is it in my head?
I don't want to get sick. :(
2003/02/17
My poor, poor wife.
Diana and I went out for sushi last night as sort of a special date for working so hard this weekend. We both got the exact same things, and split everything down the middle. In spite of that, though, she's been in bed all day so far (it's 3pm now), except for getting up almost exactly every hour to be sick (from assorted endpoints of the spinal column). She hasn't been able to keep anything down all morning, and it's starting to take a toll. She just slept for the past hour or so, and woke up pretty thirsty, so that might be a good sign that things are getting better. We'll see. Poor thing. :(
That being said, I've been just lounging around all day taking care of her, and keeping her company. Saturday, we worked pretty hard. Diana pulled weeds and cut down bushes. I adventured to Home Depot and bought rain gutter supplies, and added a length of rain gutter off one side of the house. It's not so pretty, but I think it will work. Yesterday, we lazed around a little, and went to Home Expo and looked at pretty stuff to buy for our house. :) Then, today has been quiet.
Diana and I went out for sushi last night as sort of a special date for working so hard this weekend. We both got the exact same things, and split everything down the middle. In spite of that, though, she's been in bed all day so far (it's 3pm now), except for getting up almost exactly every hour to be sick (from assorted endpoints of the spinal column). She hasn't been able to keep anything down all morning, and it's starting to take a toll. She just slept for the past hour or so, and woke up pretty thirsty, so that might be a good sign that things are getting better. We'll see. Poor thing. :(
That being said, I've been just lounging around all day taking care of her, and keeping her company. Saturday, we worked pretty hard. Diana pulled weeds and cut down bushes. I adventured to Home Depot and bought rain gutter supplies, and added a length of rain gutter off one side of the house. It's not so pretty, but I think it will work. Yesterday, we lazed around a little, and went to Home Expo and looked at pretty stuff to buy for our house. :) Then, today has been quiet.
2003/02/14
Friday!
I went to the doctor this morning for a followup on my finger. He said everything looked good, and wasn't angry at me for taking off my brace early. He said the swelling and discoloration were normal, and suggested some stretching excercises. It's slowly loosening up on it's own, and the stretching is uncomfortable, so I might just see how it does on it's own. But it's good to hear that it's all ok.
I'm glad it's Friday. I'm hoping that the weather continues to clear up and dry out. Diana and I have some housework to do, and it would be nice if it wasn't raining. There is one little area of the roof on the side of the house that doesn't have any sort of raingutter. So the water just spills off it. Unfortunately, the ground below that area is sloped towards the house, rather than away, so we get water pooled up there. I'm hoping this weekend we can either slope the ground the right way, or at least install a rain gutter or something to carry the water away. I also tripped over a sprinkler head and snapped it off while working out there, so that should be replaced. That might be an adventure. I'm learning so much, I love it! :)
A person at work suggested we all play an old game called VGA Planets. It's kind of a graphical Play By Email game, vaguely like Risk in space. It looks like a lot of fun without taking up a whole lot of time. It's a little complicated at first, so I hope I can find some time this weekend to read more about it.
Today is Valentines Day. Diana and I are staging an unnofficial protest, and not doing anything special or buying gifts or anything. I think Valentines day is really lame, and Diana apparently agrees, which is nice. We may go out to dinner, or maybe just stay in and watch a movie. I hope tell Diana everyday how much I love and adore her. I don't need a stupid holiday to remind me of this.
I went to the doctor this morning for a followup on my finger. He said everything looked good, and wasn't angry at me for taking off my brace early. He said the swelling and discoloration were normal, and suggested some stretching excercises. It's slowly loosening up on it's own, and the stretching is uncomfortable, so I might just see how it does on it's own. But it's good to hear that it's all ok.
I'm glad it's Friday. I'm hoping that the weather continues to clear up and dry out. Diana and I have some housework to do, and it would be nice if it wasn't raining. There is one little area of the roof on the side of the house that doesn't have any sort of raingutter. So the water just spills off it. Unfortunately, the ground below that area is sloped towards the house, rather than away, so we get water pooled up there. I'm hoping this weekend we can either slope the ground the right way, or at least install a rain gutter or something to carry the water away. I also tripped over a sprinkler head and snapped it off while working out there, so that should be replaced. That might be an adventure. I'm learning so much, I love it! :)
A person at work suggested we all play an old game called VGA Planets. It's kind of a graphical Play By Email game, vaguely like Risk in space. It looks like a lot of fun without taking up a whole lot of time. It's a little complicated at first, so I hope I can find some time this weekend to read more about it.
Today is Valentines Day. Diana and I are staging an unnofficial protest, and not doing anything special or buying gifts or anything. I think Valentines day is really lame, and Diana apparently agrees, which is nice. We may go out to dinner, or maybe just stay in and watch a movie. I hope tell Diana everyday how much I love and adore her. I don't need a stupid holiday to remind me of this.
2003/02/13
Hello!
I had a previous post here recounting the gory details of a misunderstanding about a book I loaned to a friend. It's all been cleared up now. Misunderstandings were made clear. Apoligies have been issued and accepted, and there is no further need to go into more details. Sorry to those of you who caught my angry post.
Yesterday it rained. We had a lot of water pooling up against the side of the house, so we dug out some trenches as best we could to let it drain away, with mediocre success. We're both pretty scared of the potential damage water can do to a foundation, but we're hoping one little rainstorm won't hurt too bad. We're going to get it landscaped soon hopefully so that the water will flow away from the house better.
Otherwise, not too much news. Work is keeping me hopping. Diana and I finished the mystery puzzle thing we were working on, but haven't peeked at the answer yet about who the murderer was. I'm hoping there's a logical answer that's even possible to figure out, and not something lame.
That's about it for now.
I had a previous post here recounting the gory details of a misunderstanding about a book I loaned to a friend. It's all been cleared up now. Misunderstandings were made clear. Apoligies have been issued and accepted, and there is no further need to go into more details. Sorry to those of you who caught my angry post.
Yesterday it rained. We had a lot of water pooling up against the side of the house, so we dug out some trenches as best we could to let it drain away, with mediocre success. We're both pretty scared of the potential damage water can do to a foundation, but we're hoping one little rainstorm won't hurt too bad. We're going to get it landscaped soon hopefully so that the water will flow away from the house better.
Otherwise, not too much news. Work is keeping me hopping. Diana and I finished the mystery puzzle thing we were working on, but haven't peeked at the answer yet about who the murderer was. I'm hoping there's a logical answer that's even possible to figure out, and not something lame.
That's about it for now.
2003/02/10
Hallo!
I'm still here! Haven't updated in a while. Let's review, shall we?
Friday evening, me and Iwan and Eryn and Heather and Norm and Teri went out of dinner, and then came back to our place and hung out. It was a lot of fun. It was fun generally comparing Norm and Eryn's high school experiences. I wonder if they'll even let Eryn into our 10 year reunion. He'll have to somehow prove that he actually went to that school. And the testimony of Marc doesn't count. :)
Saturday, Diana and I tore up our side yard. It was so overgrown, and we pared things back and thinned things out, and it looks a lot better now. There's a lot of bare dirt, now, that potentially could be flower beds or something. After that, we went in the jacuzzi. We both really like (perhaps me more) having a jacuzzi, and agree that it's probably not something that we would have bought if the house didn't come with one. It's a great bonus. That night we went out to dinner at Rancho Valencia, which is where we got married, for our six-month anniversary. Awww.
Yesterday, Diana worked a little and spent the afternoon at her parents. I did some home repair stuff, and generally vegged around the house, which was nice. I was officially cut from the Counterstrike clan I was trying out for, but this is not a bad thing. I didn't have the time that they required of me, I don't think, and I probably wouldn't have lasted long even if I'd made it. So no big whoop. Then in the evening we went to my parents house for dinner, also with Diana's parents, which was nice.
This morning, I dug out some old tapes I found in the back of my drawer when we moved and listened to them on the way to work. The one that I listened to was an audio tape that my old high school girlfriend Nicole made for me when I was at camp. I taped over a lot of it (which was fun to listen to as well... the kind of stuff that I listened to in th early 90's), but there was a good bit of audio diary from Nicole. Mostly rambling about going to the fair and so forth, but it was fun to listen to.
OH! Last night, we also watched (and taped) an episode of "Inside the Actors Studio" with the cast of the Simpsons. It was pretty good, but there wasn't nearly enough of the actors doing the voices. But it was really funny/weird to see actual people making the voices. Anyways, I have it on tape if anyone wants to borrow it.
And now, back to work.
I'm still here! Haven't updated in a while. Let's review, shall we?
Friday evening, me and Iwan and Eryn and Heather and Norm and Teri went out of dinner, and then came back to our place and hung out. It was a lot of fun. It was fun generally comparing Norm and Eryn's high school experiences. I wonder if they'll even let Eryn into our 10 year reunion. He'll have to somehow prove that he actually went to that school. And the testimony of Marc doesn't count. :)
Saturday, Diana and I tore up our side yard. It was so overgrown, and we pared things back and thinned things out, and it looks a lot better now. There's a lot of bare dirt, now, that potentially could be flower beds or something. After that, we went in the jacuzzi. We both really like (perhaps me more) having a jacuzzi, and agree that it's probably not something that we would have bought if the house didn't come with one. It's a great bonus. That night we went out to dinner at Rancho Valencia, which is where we got married, for our six-month anniversary. Awww.
Yesterday, Diana worked a little and spent the afternoon at her parents. I did some home repair stuff, and generally vegged around the house, which was nice. I was officially cut from the Counterstrike clan I was trying out for, but this is not a bad thing. I didn't have the time that they required of me, I don't think, and I probably wouldn't have lasted long even if I'd made it. So no big whoop. Then in the evening we went to my parents house for dinner, also with Diana's parents, which was nice.
This morning, I dug out some old tapes I found in the back of my drawer when we moved and listened to them on the way to work. The one that I listened to was an audio tape that my old high school girlfriend Nicole made for me when I was at camp. I taped over a lot of it (which was fun to listen to as well... the kind of stuff that I listened to in th early 90's), but there was a good bit of audio diary from Nicole. Mostly rambling about going to the fair and so forth, but it was fun to listen to.
OH! Last night, we also watched (and taped) an episode of "Inside the Actors Studio" with the cast of the Simpsons. It was pretty good, but there wasn't nearly enough of the actors doing the voices. But it was really funny/weird to see actual people making the voices. Anyways, I have it on tape if anyone wants to borrow it.
And now, back to work.
2003/02/06
Bah!
Well, I had a Counterstrike clan recruiting match tonight, and I totally blew it. I couldn't play for crap. They're not making any cuts tonight, but going to have another match tomorrow night, which I'm probably not going to make because of other plans. Oh well. Maybe this whole CS thing isn't what it's cut out to be. I couldn't be (gasp) too old for this stuff could I? Nawwww...
While I played, Diana watched the Michael Jackson special thing on 20/20. I saw the end of it. What a poor man that guy is. He's completely deluded, and with the life and attention and abuse he's gotten, who can blame him, I guess. Then ER, now to bed.
Well, I had a Counterstrike clan recruiting match tonight, and I totally blew it. I couldn't play for crap. They're not making any cuts tonight, but going to have another match tomorrow night, which I'm probably not going to make because of other plans. Oh well. Maybe this whole CS thing isn't what it's cut out to be. I couldn't be (gasp) too old for this stuff could I? Nawwww...
While I played, Diana watched the Michael Jackson special thing on 20/20. I saw the end of it. What a poor man that guy is. He's completely deluded, and with the life and attention and abuse he's gotten, who can blame him, I guess. Then ER, now to bed.
2003/02/05
I had a really interesting conversation last night with some female coworkers at a Happy Hour celebration thing. Well, it wasn't really as much of a conversation as much as me observing while the two of them talked about their hair. Kerry, until recently, had beautiful long curly hair. Not wavy, but tight curls down her back. She has recently cut her hair shorter, and dries it or somehow otherwise treats it to be straight. The other girl, Corrine, has the straightest hair I've seen. Just falls straight down her face with nary a bend or curl. What was really funny/interesting/sad about their conversation, though, is how they both said they didn't like the hair they were born with, and wanted to have hair like the other. It struck me how each of them wanted what the other had deemed undesirable. I wonder if either of them thought "Wow, she wants what I've already got. Maybe it's not so bad after all?" Anyways, this all degenerates to a "be happy who you are" thing, yadda yadda yadda.
Yesterday was Diana and my 6 month anniversary. I think I can honestly say that these have been the happiest 6 months of my life. And that's saying a lot. :)
Yesterday was Diana and my 6 month anniversary. I think I can honestly say that these have been the happiest 6 months of my life. And that's saying a lot. :)
2003/02/03
Back to work...
My cars brakes started making a really ugly grinding sound the other day. It's being fixed right now. It's also had a problem for a little while with a faulty idle-air-intake thinger, which would manifest itself by really low idle speeds on bootup, or just flat out stalling. But giving it a little gas would solve the problem so I never really worried about it. But since it's in there for the brakes, seems like it's a good thing to get that fixed as well. I also have a hole in the right-side blinker plastic, which isn't a problem but makes a humming sound when I drive fast. And the spring mechanism to my fuel door broke off, so when I pull the latch, the fuel door release goes, but the door doesn't spring open like it's supposed to. To fix the latter two problems was more expensive then it was worth, so I'm going to handle those myself.
I've been looking at computer upgrade potential. I have a good video card. I have a good soundcard. I have a good hard drive. I need:
New case ('cause I bought a new power supply that's too big for my old case! Doh. Plus, I want to get a tricked out one with a window and lights and all that stuff. :)
New mobo/processor/RAM. I figure once desktop computers are 1.5 times as powerful as mine, it's time to upgrade. My new video card doesn't like my old system very much, either. Given the stuff that I have already, I think I can have a real hot-shit, dream setup for under $1000. I'm thinking Abit IT7-MAX2 v2.0 motherboard, Pentium IV 2.8 Ghz processor, and 512K of some good RAM. *drool*
We're putting our weekend fix to the test right now, and everything is working! Huzzah.
My cars brakes started making a really ugly grinding sound the other day. It's being fixed right now. It's also had a problem for a little while with a faulty idle-air-intake thinger, which would manifest itself by really low idle speeds on bootup, or just flat out stalling. But giving it a little gas would solve the problem so I never really worried about it. But since it's in there for the brakes, seems like it's a good thing to get that fixed as well. I also have a hole in the right-side blinker plastic, which isn't a problem but makes a humming sound when I drive fast. And the spring mechanism to my fuel door broke off, so when I pull the latch, the fuel door release goes, but the door doesn't spring open like it's supposed to. To fix the latter two problems was more expensive then it was worth, so I'm going to handle those myself.
I've been looking at computer upgrade potential. I have a good video card. I have a good soundcard. I have a good hard drive. I need:
New case ('cause I bought a new power supply that's too big for my old case! Doh. Plus, I want to get a tricked out one with a window and lights and all that stuff. :)
New mobo/processor/RAM. I figure once desktop computers are 1.5 times as powerful as mine, it's time to upgrade. My new video card doesn't like my old system very much, either. Given the stuff that I have already, I think I can have a real hot-shit, dream setup for under $1000. I'm thinking Abit IT7-MAX2 v2.0 motherboard, Pentium IV 2.8 Ghz processor, and 512K of some good RAM. *drool*
We're putting our weekend fix to the test right now, and everything is working! Huzzah.
2003/02/01
Work on Saturday?!
Yep, here I am. What a bummer. But I think we've fixed the problem. Sort of. The fix is "if there's a problem, try again a couple times". But it seems to be working. I'm going to have to come back tomorrow to get stuff cleaned up and ready to go, but it's much better to do that than to bang out heads against the walls like we've been doing.
The problem is called a deadlock. Two or more processes are doing stuff. Process A has a lock on Resource AA. Process B has a lock on Resource BB. Process A wants Resouce BB, so it waits for BB to unlock. Process B wants Resource AA, so it waits for AA to unlock. Circular waiting, aka deadlock, aka clusterfuck. What the database does in this case is realize this is happening, and just kills one of the processes, releasing it's lock and allowing the other process to continue. So we detect when something has been killed, and try it again. Not very elegant, but not really a kludge either.
This morning Dad came over just before I got called back to work, which was too bad. But he helped out with some house stuff, and further verified my plumbing masterpiece. Diana worked all morning pulling weeds and doing yardwork, which was adorable.
Ok. Off to home.
Yep, here I am. What a bummer. But I think we've fixed the problem. Sort of. The fix is "if there's a problem, try again a couple times". But it seems to be working. I'm going to have to come back tomorrow to get stuff cleaned up and ready to go, but it's much better to do that than to bang out heads against the walls like we've been doing.
The problem is called a deadlock. Two or more processes are doing stuff. Process A has a lock on Resource AA. Process B has a lock on Resource BB. Process A wants Resouce BB, so it waits for BB to unlock. Process B wants Resource AA, so it waits for AA to unlock. Circular waiting, aka deadlock, aka clusterfuck. What the database does in this case is realize this is happening, and just kills one of the processes, releasing it's lock and allowing the other process to continue. So we detect when something has been killed, and try it again. Not very elegant, but not really a kludge either.
This morning Dad came over just before I got called back to work, which was too bad. But he helped out with some house stuff, and further verified my plumbing masterpiece. Diana worked all morning pulling weeds and doing yardwork, which was adorable.
Ok. Off to home.
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