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Here’s the birthday boy blowing out the candles! Happy birthday, Loyal Reader Number Two! Full disclosure: he’s actually blowing out the candles on my cake a couple of months ago in this picture, but the principle is the same.

Went home from work early to be with the family on the birthday. It was nice being here. I went swimming briefly and otherwise hung around. Very relaxing.

No progress on the game engine. LRN2 and his buddy have been using all the computers all afternoon, so there’s been no opportunity. On the business front, though, Loyal Reader Number Five bought a couple of books on Cascading Style Sheets and she’s working on some of the tutorials now. She’s making some pretty good-looking pages.

Otherwise pretty quiet today. I’m working tomorrow on my off Friday, which is just wrong. I’m taking the train to beat the nasty Friday afternoon traffic. Wish me luck!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s the fire truck on Alcatraz (AKA “the rock”). Photo courtesy of Loyal Reader Number One, using Loyal Reader Number Four’s camera.

Wednesday go-to-meetin‘ night, as usual. The full-time missionaries reported that Kathryn, the nice young woman we visited last Saturday is going to join the church, with her baptism scheduled on the 25th of this month. Everybody was pleased about it. Of course.

No joy last night compiling Delta 3D. I’m giving up on the Linux version and will try the Windows version to see if I can get it to compile a tutorial. It’s digging its own grave around here with the impossible installation. In the meantime, Loyal Reader Number Three was able to install the Microsoft tools and compile one of the sample games. We still need to go through the tutorials and see how easy it is to program.

Loyal Reader Number Five went on a job interview this evening. She feels like she’s way overqualified and has a good chance of getting the job. Let’s hope for the best! I mentioned Loyal Reader Number Six at my meeting tonight to see if anybody knows of available work in his line. Nothing yet, but something will come up.

I just saw the worst music video ever. Let me know if you agree. As opposed to the best music video ever.

Gotta go. See you tomorrow.

Here’s a night scene in Cannes a few years back. It was usually pleasant there in the evening.

I didn’t mention yesterday a couple of important weekend events. My father flew in on Saturday and he, Loyal Reader Number Four, and I attended a memorial service for my late Aunt Bea. It was kind of a hippy funeral – saxaphone music and poetry, among other things – but it was very touching, as it consisted mostly of people talking about how Bea had affected their lives. I learned a lot about her and certainly came to appreciate her life more than I had before.

The Loyal Father is having a bit of skin cancer removed tomorrow. Good luck, LF!

The week has been normal so far. I’m trying one more time to get Delta 3D installed on Larry. Now that 32-bit Linux is on there, I have reasonably high hopes that I’ll be able to get everything on and working this time. Wish me luck.

Better get to it now. See you Wednesday.

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.