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Here’s Loyal Pet Number One in her Personal, Private sleeping area in the trailer. Taken in her earlier, healthier years. She’s still camping, though. She’ll be with us at Big Sur the week after next.

As Loyal Reader Number One mentioned, there was no post yesterday. I was at work until about 9:00 in the evening and didn’t get home until after ten. Great traffic, though! Another longish day today. Fortunately, the meeting schedule for Thursday and Friday is very light.

Stayed only about an hour late tonight. Oddly, the traffic was almost as good as last night. I have no idea why.

Had lunch with my friend Al today. He’s on leave from the company and I’m hoping he’ll come back. Regardless of how that turns out, we had a nice lunch together. I had sausage and mashed potatoes and enjoyed them. Thanks for asking.

The progress on getting Larry in shape as the web server continues. He’s in the right room and three of the four websites are up and running. He’s not serving them on the actual internet yet – need to wait for Waterlogged for that. We’re hoping to have everything in place by later tonight.

I abandoned the Einstein book. The author just couldn’t leave his own moonbat politics alone long enough to write a book about somebody else’s work. I recommend a pass on this one. Sigh. I have plenty of other reading material.

I’ve been working on the program for this Friday afternoon’s baptism of my friends Ashley and Brett. They’re the nice young couple whose wedding we attended last Thursday. It looks like things on the program are coming together nicely. The one possible problem is that we need to be in Modesto no later than 7:30 Friday night for LRN1’s honors piano recital. Since the baptism is scheduled to start at 6:00, that’s going to be tight. We’re making arrangements to leave early if necessary, which will be slightly awkward, since I’m conducting the service and Loyal Readers Numbers One and Four are providing the music. Backup plans are in place. Incidentally, Loyal Reader Number Two will be snow camping Friday night. Sounds like fun.

Time to do other things. See you tomorrow.

Here’s yet another in my famous statue series. This is one of my weaker entries. Still, I believe the Loyal Reader will have to admit that it’s old and nasty-looking enough to qualify as Great Art. Found at the Governor’s Mansion, of course.

I’ve been busy working on the computers again. Or still, depending on your point of view. Last night, I finally got the Mongrel cluster working properly on Waterlogged. So we’re at last ready to convert Larry to the web server. To that end, I moved all its files over to Curly last night and took Larry apart this evening. I removed the 100GB drive, which I’m planning to put into Moe when it becomes the sole web server, and moved Larry into the game room to live next to Moe. Right now, I’m running SpinRite on Larry’s 80GB drive in preparation for installation of Ubuntu Server. It’s been finding errors (makes sense – I got that drive from my non-Loyal-Reader brother-in-law Ken after it died in his machine and we replaced it, but it’s been successfully serving files in Larry for quite some time), so SpinRite will probably take some time to finish. The worst case is that the boot sector is unrecoverable, so we’ll have to put it back to work as a data drive only. I’m hoping it survives – 80GB seems like a pretty good size to serve my four websites and I’d like to reserve my larger disks for Moe to serve files to the network.

Anyway. Drove the Miata in open-air mode on the way home tonight. I arrived slightly chilly but not uncomfortable. The heater was on but the windows remained down. Morning was a different story – it was about 36 degrees when I left. The top stayed up. It was beautiful all day today, by the way, and it’s going to be nice for next few days. They’re predicting sunshine and temperatures in the high 60s/low 70s.

It’s already late due to Home Evening-related activities, so I’m off to bed. See you tomorrow.

Here’s the Governor‘s sink. This thing has an interesting history. Apparently, it was removed from the mansion at one point and sold/given away. Many years later, somebody found it in their yard filled with flowers. They cleaned it up, recognized it by a monogram or something, and gave it back. Looks pretty fancy for a planter, no?

Happy leap day! And it’s an extremely rare fifth Friday – five paydays this month. Woo hoo.

Wonders of Blogger, though. See Anon’s comment to Thursday’s post. I got busy with Leap Day activities.

The financial juggernaut rolls on. I’m up to $2.02! Don’t worry – I won’t let the popularity of the Morrowlife blog go to my head.

Okay weekend, so far. I didn’t do too much – picked up the truck with its new oil, rotated tires, new front brakes, new front rotors, and new master cylinder (the jury’s still out on whether they did the job right), cleaned the pond’s filter, tested the pool’s water, filled up the pool’s chlorine dispenser, took a long nap, ate, and blogged. Bedtime soon.

In fact, I think it will be now. See you on Monday.

Here’s the solution to yesterday’s puzzle. Loyal Reader Number Four was right! Sort of. Turns out it was the front ends of a few members of non-Loyal Reader Ken’s 1956 Ford pickup model collection. Time to dust those babies off, Ken.

Went to a wedding this afternoon, for a young couple in our ward who are about to join the church. It was cute – the first potluck wedding I’ve ever attended. Had a nice time.

Otherwise, slept, worked, ate, and commuted.

Nothing else going on today, so I’ll head for bed. Long work day tomorrow. See you then.

Here’s the first in my famous Unidentifiable Great Art series. Can any of my Loyal Readers figure out what it is?

Juggernaut update: I’m over a dollar! I checked today, and my account balance has jumped to $1.33. Thanks to whichever Loyal Readers have been clicking on my Commerce section. I’m rich! (Link warning – audio of Daffy Duck shouting. And here’s the cartoon to accompany it.)

Finished the Mark Steyn book on the train this evening. It was interesting and entertaining, but the subject matter could have been covered in a long magazine article or two. Otherwise, highly recommended. Now I’m down to the Einstein book, the garden book, and the Mark Twain book. Plus, there are several on the floor by my side of the bed, waiting to be read.

Plus I got a new Make Magazine in the mail yesterday. I’m seriously afraid it will turn out to be one of the lame ones – the main topic this time is Magic. A subject about which I’m not overly interested. There appear to be a couple of good project articles, though. In general, I like Make, but experience says that only about fifty percent of the issues are really good. The rest are kind of hokey, like the one covering the terrarium and the one about the single-string guitar, and the one about… Plus, they’re just a little too Granola for me. I’m sure it never even occurs to them that some of their potential readers may not share their political/religious views. All of their friends do! Still, I like it on balance and recommend my Loyal Readers at least check it out. I bought the first issue on the newsstand and have been a subscriber since the second issue.

Going-away luncheon for three of my people tomorrow. Sigh. Time for bed. See you tomorrow.