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Here are Loyal Readers Numbers One and Seven at EFY this year. Photo courtesy of LRN7, presumably shot by someone else with her camera. Thanks for the picture, LRN7!

Very Short Shrift tonight. I’m am SO sleepy it’s not easy to even sit up straight. I stayed up pretty late last night, working on reinstalling Linux on Larry. It has Fedora 7 now, and it’s working just fine. Mostly. There are a few strange things, such as the fact that I can’t install anything in the upper and lower panels on my desktop on the terminal directly connected to the computer, but I can in the terminal accessed from VNC. In fact, when I try to install applets in the session running on the terminal, they show up in the VNC window. Weird-o-rama.

Accomplished some over the weekend. We finally borrowed a trouble code reader on Friday so we could diagnose LRN1’s car’s check engine light, reduced gas mileage, and malaise of spirit. While I was working on installing the reader’s software on my laptop, I discovered that LRN1’s car has an older version of the diagnostic system and wouldn’t work with the machine I had borrowed. We looked it up on the internet and found a way to pull codes using a jumper wire and a 12-volt trouble light. It turned out to be the mass airflow sensor, which was unable to pass its oddly-named “goose” test, which apparently means full-throttle acceleration. We bought a new part at the local Kragen and installed it in about five minutes. The car has all its power back and doesn’t appear to be reporting a problem anymore. Woo hoo!

We helped the person move on Saturday morning. She wasn’t even nearly prepared, so we did what we could do and left her to finish moving the thousands of tiny little unpacked things herself. Hate to do that, but you have to be ready if you want help.

Didn’t fix the water softener. I’ll get to that next weekend, presumably.

Also didn’t reinstall the game engine. Maybe tomorrow night.

Anything else that happened on the weekend will have to wait until tomorrow. See you then.

Here’s an old Proton rollout. This artsy-looking (it’s out of focus, anyway, and that’s certainly artsy) picture actually appeared on the ILS website back in the day. I mock it, but it’s actually one of my favorite campaign pictures.

No messing with the game engine today. I’ve been too busy watching Jay Leno videos on the internet. Oh, and entertaining some guests a little bit earlier. Our friends the Fallons are having a bit of a health emergency with her father, who lives with them. He’s in the hospital right now, and the family needs to rally ’round. So the Loyal Readers hosted their triplet sons for the day and we had the whole family over for dinner this evening. It was the Mom’s birthday today, and we had cake and ice cream and a few cards. I’m glad they could come over.

Nothing much else today. I worked and came home. On the other hand, tomorrow is shaping up to be extremely busy. I need to work on Loyal Reader Number One’s car, help somebody move, fix the water softener, go visit somebody with the missionaries, and do a little work on the Gardenville/Spinfo conglomerate. Or maybe that should be juggernaut. Oh, and host my father, who is arriving sometime tomorrow – we don’t know when. We’re going to his brother’s late wife’s memorial service on Sunday, and he’s staying with us tomorrow night. That ought to be enough to keep me off the streets and out of the pool halls.

Better get to bed. See you on Monday.

There’s the little twerp now. It’s great to have her here again. Also Loyal Reader Number Five, courtesy of whom this photo comes to us.

I’ve been working on Delta 3D again and have decided it can’t be installed on 64-bit Linux. An exhaustive web search has confirmed this. Not good. So, I’ve definitely decided to install 32-bit Linux on Larry over the weekend. Morrowlife may be down for a few hours, but my Loyal Readers will survive, I suspect. Reconfiguring everything will probably be extremely ugly. But it must be done.

In the meantime, I’ve started trying to install Delta 3D on Curly, my Mac. It’s not easy either. So far, I have one or two of the dependencies installed, and it’s clear that each and every one will be a major pain. Need to figure it out, though.

– A few minutes later –

No I can’t. I can’t get anything to work. Curses! I’m trying again on Larry. This time, I’ve downloaded all the dependencies from the Delta 3D site. If this doesn’t work, it’s 32-bit on Saturday. In the meantime, Loyal Reader Number One is installing the Windows version on Loyal Reader Number Two’s machine. Stupid Delta 3D.

Maybe I’m not really meant to develop video games after all. But I think I am. Not to mention useful homeschooler applications.

Otherwise, nothing much new. I switched cars with Loyal Reader Number Four again. I’ve been driving to work much more often because I need to stay late, and I just can’t afford to put the miles on the Honda. Plus, the Miata is still overheating. Need to get that fixed. Soon.

Time for bed already. See you tomorrow.

Here’s the river yet again, this time in closeup. Great art indeed.

No post yesterday. I was . . . thinking. No, actually I was trying to install Delta 3D on Larry, my Linux machine. What a hard thing! I had to install numerous dependencies. Some of them were available via Yum, but I had to download and hand-install a bunch of them. After I spent roughly four hours finding and installing dependencies, it still won’t compile. It says it’s still missing some things, and I can’t seem to figure out where to get them. Might have to go to the Delta 3D forums for a little help there. Nobody else seems to be having that problem, though, as there are no posts on the topic yet.

I think part of my problem is that I’m running the 64-bit version of Fedora. I should never have done that. I knew 64-bit Windows was a disaster area, but I thought Linux was a little more advanced than that. Apparently not. I’m still afraid to change it because I have so much custom configuration done. I think I’ll have to bite the bullet and do it, though. I’m sick of these problems. And I think Fedora has stopped supporting Core 5 now. Maybe this weekend.

Of course, the Windows version of Delta 3D comes with pre-compiled binaries, and I’m sure it’s even easy to compile. Stupid Windows.

They’re here! That’s right, Loyal Readers Numbers Five and Twelve. They got here yesterday evening. We’re enjoying the visit so far, and LRN12 is even starting to not cry when she looks at us! She even let a couple of us hold her briefly last night, and I’m sure that will get better with time.

LRN5 is helping me with some of the organizational aspects of the software company. We need to figure out the best cheapest way to make it a real company. I really want it to be an equal partnership between the five of us too – let everybody have the same stake in it. It will be interesting to see what she suggests.

It’s Wednesday Go to Meetin’ night, so I’ll quit. Wish me luck with this lousy game development system. I’ll get it figured out. See you tomorrow.