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Here’s another Baikonur shot, taken on my birthday. I of course put on my special Birthday Robe and Birthday Hat and had a piece of delicious Russian Birthday Cake. Wishing I was home.

No time for writing tonight either – it was Wednesday-go-to-meetin’ night. It went about half on hour longer than usual, so it’s already late.

Tomorrow’s my last work day before eight days of vacation! Blogging may or may not happen on Friday – probably not, in fact. I might find the time to post something on Saturday. And then there will almost certainly be nothing Monday through Friday of next week. We’re going down to Big Bear Friday through Sunday and then to Big Sur for a camping trip the next five days. There won’t be any electricity at the campground, so I kind of doubt there will be wireless internet. Who knows, though? Anyway, we’re all looking forward to a well-deserved vacation. And to seeing Loyal Reader Number Twelve and her parents for a couple of days. And this will be an ideal opportunity to get some more Great Art for the blog!

Haven’t heard from Loyal Reader Number Seven for quite a while. I wonder if she got sick of the blog and quit reading. Like most of my other Loyal Readers. Maybe we need to recruit some new ones. Or just be satisfied with the few I have left.

So that’s it for tonight. See you tomorrow.

Here I am at the market in Baikonur a few years back. Great shopping there.

No time to post tonight. My web server broke early this morning and was dead all day. I needed to figure out the problem and fix it after I got home from work this evening. Spent a few hours, but it’s working again!

It turns out to have been an automatic update of a program called ModSecurity that tries to block bad guys from messing around with my web server. The new version killed all my custom rules and had an error in it that kept it from working at all. It took a while, but I found the error and fixed it (it was a bad file name in an “include” command). I spent most of the time trying to get my custom rules working again. I finally got them so that the web server would run, only to discover that both this site and the HRVA were broken. Sigh. I took out the custom rules and am now going with the standard ones. It’s working again, in any case.

So it’s 11:00 and I need to go to bed. I’ll try to be a little more fascinating tomorrow.

Here’s my new bicycle. Well, actually, it’s not. It’s much better than my bicycle at the moment. The movers managed to bend both my front rim and my front axle. Loyal Reader Number Four took the wheel to a bike shop today for repairs, which are promised for tomorrow. I took this picture in Cannes a few years ago. I’m pretty sure this machine was still being used at the time.

Time to pause for Home Evening. See you in a little bit.

– Pause –

I’m back. It’s late now – well, it’s almost 9:30, and that’s late in my book. I can remember when I went to bed after midnight every night and got up at 5:30, day after day. Sigh. Those days are certainly over. Now I can hardly keep my eyes open.

Loyal Reader Number Two has been playing with a new, improved version of Line Rider. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. The premise is ludicrously simple – you draw lines on a white background and a little guy on a sled goes down the lines. You just make cool courses for him to ride without letting him fall off. What a great idea. The new version has non-ridden lines, acceleration lines, and an badly-needed eraser for lines that didn’t quite work out.

I’ve also recently tried another game, called flOw. It’s an eerily peaceful game where you start out as a single-cell creature (or something like that, anyway) underwater, and you eat littler creatures to grow. You have to avoid being attacked by bigger creatures, but mostly you just cruise around and get bigger. The music is peaceful and I like the game. Try it out! You can play online or download the game for your PC. The best thing about the game is that it appears to have been the basis for somebody’s Master’s degree.

We went out to Weinerschnitzel for Home Evening treat tonight. It was our second visit there. This time, we had coupons for root beer floats for only 99 cents each! I’m still not sure we got a good deal. My root beer tasted like it was a little bit short on syrup, so I took it back to the counter and got another, which maybe tasted slightly better. Our first trip was slightly more expensive and infinitely worse-tasting. I don’t think we’ll go back there. There are so many better restaurants.

I -finally- made an update to the HRVA website. I definitely need to keep the updates coming much more frequently if I ever hope to make anything useful out of it. Anyway, have a look!

Work went fine. The commute went fine. I’m feeling fine. Everything is fine.

And I’m exhausted, so I’m going to bed. See you on Tuesday.