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Wednesday, August 21, 2002 |
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I've got several computer related projects (at home) on my plate:
The first item on the list is perhaps the most pressing and involved. Currently my hard drive has six partitions and I'm leaning towards pairing that down to three: MacOS X, Classic, and Swap. At this point for simplicity's sake I'm thinking of giving MacOS X around 17GB, Classic about 1GB and swap about 512MB, but I may still change my mind. Bottom line: it's time for some major partition cleaning and backup. Thank goodness I've got that external 80GB drive to help with the process. My copy of Jaguar shipped today from somewhere in California so I think I can expect it Friday.
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Today after coming home from work I planted a ton of raspberry bushes in the northeast corner of our backyard. I'm curious to see how they do in the coming months as they were actually out of the ground for the last few couple days. They're supposed to be incredibly hardy, but some of them looked pretty sad with all of their leaves starting to shrivel; I'm hopeful that they'll all bounce back.
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Sunday, August 18, 2002 |
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Lawn waste disposal day went pretty well. Mary and I finished up our yard work this morning by removing the ivy from the back wall of our house. That was a little more work than I would have preferred, but it's definitely an improvement. I also found the wasp nest responsible for yesterday's sting while de-vining a portion of the fence, but it was cold enough that the wasps were quite torpid. I considered knocking the nest down then, but Mary preferred that we wait and use some spray on them so that's what we ended up doing. After finishing our yard work I watched a little WNBA playoff action and then took a nap while Mary drove north to her parents to swap cars. She and her parents arrived with their two trucks somewhere after 1 PM and incredibly we were just able to fit all thirty five bags (my rough estimate) into the back of both trucks. Based on what we paid at the dump the amount of yard waste we cleared this weekend weighed aproximately 1100 lbs!
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Saturday, August 17, 2002 |
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Today was fence building preparation day in our backyard. Unfortunately that involved filling 30-plus garbage sacks full of yard waste, branches, and compost from a large pile in the back corner of our yard. Just another one of those fun surprises that came with the house.
Of course to top things off after we finished for the day I managed to get my first bee sting in several years. I was pulling on some ivy that had taken over a section of fence that will be torn down soon when I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my arm. Strangely enough I hadn't seen or heard any sign of the wasp that stung me until after it had happened, but I got out of there pretty quickly when I realized that I had been stung. In the end I didn't have much of a reaction and putting ice on the sting seemed to help. My arm is still a bit sore as I type this though. |
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Friday, August 16, 2002 |
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The Naked Face is yet another amazing Malcolm Gladwell article; this time his topic is the subtle and unnoticed messages that human facial expressions convey. It's actually kind of scary how transparent people really are if you know what to look for. [via Kottke] 3:16:39 PM 
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Thursday, August 15, 2002 |
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Pre-Jaguar upgrade preparation [Mac OS X Hints]
I still have to figure out what route I'm going to go to get Jaguar. I really don't want to pay the full $130 so I guess I'll have to go through the |
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Wednesday, August 14, 2002 |
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I really meant to make an entry yesterday about how appealing the new PowerMac G4 towers look, but I got distracted by a lost pager (I found it after two hours searching and a completely unnecessary return trip to work). 12:08:59 PM
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Dave wants 1000 updates on weblogs.com today so I'm just doing my part to help out :). 11:05:43 AM
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Monday, August 12, 2002 |
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Long day at the office. Productive, but long. Hopefully I can continue to be productive once I get home. Hmm... home now.
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