stav's little corner

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time

–T.S. Eliot, from Little Giddings

This one is going into the quotes file.

Anyway, consider this a thread for open musings. What’s on your mind, folks? Comment away, either here or on LJ.

I may have more to say tomorrow, despite the May death march.

Originally published at retstak.org. You can comment here or there.

EDIT: Shortpacked! Extras are SOLD OUT! I'm leaving a few slots open for those who promised to pay for them through snail mail, but otherwise, they be gone. There's still oodles of the normal ones, though!

I haven't rambled on massively about my cute feezley roomies. Arwen is doing tons better than 2 weeks ago. Tomorrow morning is the last dose of the last antibiotics. He's been playing like the old weasel, which makes me beyond happy. He's dealing good with the other two, playing and poinging and snuggling and whatnot. Speaking of the other two, Whiskey is looking more like Arwen every day. And acting like him, they're constantly wrestling and chasing each other around. Both also have a weird desire to bite my feet. Whiskey has mostly grown out of his desire to chew on everything, just a few things like me. ;) Nyx is still small, and cute and wildly curious. She wants under the doors in the worse way. She also is more affectionate than either boy, she'll put up with me holding her longer than the others. She also likes climbing up me to look me in the eyes. She doesn't wrestle as much, but she cheerfully joins in the ferret rumbles and chases both boys around. But she rather explore than wrestle. I do expect one of these days for her to show up with a shirt with a 'Mythferret' logo on it.

I'm so so glad Amythest talked me into getting the kits. They keep Arwen happy, and boy do they keep me on my toes. *happy ferret smile*

It's been a pretty good weekend. Friday started off with me getting out of work early, medicating the ferret, then meeting up with Amythest. We, plus some friends were originallyh going to go to an outdoor concert, but due to the heat and humidity, we decided that a movie night would be better. So we hung out at her place and watched Back to School. Fun, definitely 80's movie. Came home, played with ferrets and went to bed early. I was a tired fox, and I knew I'd be getting up early for Scarby the next day.

Got up on time, got snagged by techie_ and headed out. Got to Scarby, met up with mustangkitty04, luckycjljw and lifeblender. Always good to see them. Wandered around a bit, ran into dartpoly and some other people. A while later Amythest and Nymaz made it out there as well, but the heat and humidity was not making things easy for Amythest, so they bailed early. But, plans were made to go see Speed Racer in the evening. Wandered around some more, ended up buying myself a nifty fox pin. Finally we headed out, giving luckycjljw and lifeblender a ride home. Then me and techie_ headed off to see Speed Racer. I was pleasantly suprised, it's corny, it's cheesy, but it's fun. Check reality and any sense of physics at the door. But it's fun and funny, and not as bad as the critics are saying. Go see it.

After the movie I headed home, played with ferrets and cleaned up their cage. Went to bed around midnight and slept solid. Woke up this morning, did the usual routine, grabbed Mom for lunch at a local Mexican place, which was good. Then we hit Half Price books, then over to Walmart to do her monthly grocery run. Came back to her place, unloaded things and I came home. Now i'm just vegging out and not doing much of anything. *yawn* Quiet end to the day, quiet is good.

Happy Mother's day to all the mothers out there.

• 10:16 very old lcd monitor replaced with much newer lcd monitor reappropriated from my coworker who quit last week. 1600x1200 >>>> ... #

Cutting out of work a little early, it's been a dead slow day. Got Hydra all nice and configured, with the exception of Xen. Not sure why it doesn't want to boot, I think it's something conflicting in the latest version of Ubuntu, since Shub-Internet seemed to go fine (minus Xen's strange desire to reconfigure X for me). So I'm going to bring a different version of Ubuntu on Monday, see how that goes for me. Yay for fleeing early, and yay for the weekend.

Well, it's Friday. I'm spending said Friday working on a new computer at work. Part new build to replace my old box, part test box to try some new things that it's been hinted at here that I should learn. So now I have yet another 19" monitor pouring radiation into my geek bod. Wee. New box is named Hydra, one of the gods/leaders of the Deep Ones, along with Dagon. Makes sense when the main box is named Cthulhu ;)

Not alot else, it's Friday. I slept decently last night, in a fairly good mood all in all. Of course, new toy to play with always helps. Ok, enough babbling, time to finish updating Hydra.