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Here’s another look at the Big Sur waterfall featured in this space last month. I’m pretty sure the camera was horizontal when this picture was snapped. See what you think.

Wednesday meeting night tonight, so there will be little time to do things at home. I’ll be able to grab some dinner and maybe feed the fellas. And maybe set the papyrus plants back up yet again. And maybe pet the dog for a minute or two before locking her back up again for another couple of hours. Poor thing.

I’m hoping Loyal Reader Number One and his friends are having a good time at EFY. Do you have computer access, LRN1? Probably not. How about you, Loyal Reader Number Two? Any other Loyal Readers out there? Why?

Today was a Very Important Day at work. I’m free of my indentured servitude! I started work here in Sunnyvale exactly one year ago, and I no longer have to repay my move expenses if I should choose to quit. I have no desire to quit, but it’s nice knowing I’m free, Just In Case.

I’ve been fooling around with getting a Ruby book on my Palm. I saved all 520 pages of a web-based version of The Practical Programmer’s Guide to Ruby as a PDF file last night. Today I converted it to the Palm version of Adobe Acrobat and copied it to my gadget. It took a very long time to convert but seemed to work just fine. I wondered, though, if there was a better way. I use a neat open-source program called Plucker that grabs web pages and puts them on your Palm, allowing you to decide how many levels deep it will go and which pages it will include and exclude. The advantage of this program is that it preserves hyperlinks, so you can jump around on the downloaded site as you choose. I ran it on the Ruby book site and it worked! I copied it to my gadget. It worked just fine for a little while, but then it seems to have made the Plucker application on the handheld go bonkers. I grabbed control back and deleted the document. The PDF version is back on there. Stupidly, I had deleted it when I installed the Plucker version, so I had to convert it again, but I survived. I don’t know what went wrong with Plucker, so I just might try it again. I’ve used it for fairly large websites before without any problems.

Anyway. Yesterday’s windy, cloudy day seems to be over. Loyal Reader Number Four told me it’s pouring, blowing, and freezing in Utah today. They have my pity.

And why try my Loyal Readers’ patience any longer? See you tomorrow.

Here’s Loyal Reader Number One creating some rock-based Great Art. We don’t confine ourselves here strictly to photographically-based work. Astute Loyal Readers will note the bird in the background. So I guess this picture could be considered part of my highly-respected Bird Series.

Nothing much to talk about today, especially since I used the Wonders of Blogger this morning to make Monday’s post. Well, there is one thing: my eyes are fine. I’ve ordered some new reading glasses (alas, the depredations of age continue their relentless advance) that will allow me to see short-range things a little bit better, but I’m otherwise doing great. Combined with my outstanding tooth quality, it was a good day, medically speaking. It was also nice to be around the old homestead most of the day, dogwise if for no other reason.

What a windy day! A front blew through this afternoon, pushing some clouds further east. The wind was strong enough to blow the two boogie boards into the pond, one of the noodles into the pool, and the barbecue cover and the covers of two torches onto the ground. Sigh. Even though it was quite cool, I’ve kept the windows closed today, thus minimizing the impact to my allergies. Not to mention the dust level in the house.

Just a minute – the discussion of the pond reminded me that I still need to feed the fellas today. Be right back.

I’m back, having fed the fellas (they’re just fine, thanks), chatted with Loyal Reader Number Four on the phone (she’s fine too, thanks, and having a nice time in Utah), transferred the guacamole to a more secure container, eaten some ice cream, ordered some nice in-ear Bose headphones for my birthday, and shut down my work computer. Whew.

And now I want to spend a little time studying Ruby before I go to bed. Must prepare to open the software company! See you tomorrow.

Here’s the Big Sur river. I’m using this picture as the desktop on my work computer.

I need to figure out how to sell some of my Great Art. There must be people just begging for Quality Photography such as mine. I’ll be rich! Comfortably off! Socially secure!

Wonders of Blogger. Excuses: none. I’ve simply been goofing off. It’s been great.

Home from work on Tuesday – I have two medical appointments UPDATE: No cavities. Eye quality remains to be seen in the afternoon.

The weekend was fine, if somewhat quiet. The family left for Utah and EFY early Saturday morning. I stayed home to work, although maybe I should have taken a week’s worth of vacation and gone too. Doesn’t make any difference at this point, of course. I swam, started building a Mousey the Junkbot (still need to order a few parts, so it’s not done yet), and puttered. And ate an appealing selection of frozen foods. Yum.

Sunday was stake conference. It was a nice meeting – no new doctrine and plenty of reminders to do what we ought to have been doing all along. So it was fine.

I’m having trouble with the papyrus plants in the pond. They keep falling over. I have to go out there every single day and set them back up. I’ve started putting rocks in the pots, but it still doesn’t seem to be helping. I think they need heavier pots. Loyal Reader Number Four has suggested repotting them with rocks in the bottom. Might work.

More on Tuesday. See you then.