How do I spell?

I’m sitting here with Mira. She’s on her computer, I’m on mine. She’s asking me how to spell everything so she can write an email to Bear in the Big Blue House.
LAst night I had to put this special ointment in my eye. Says on the tube “For Corneal Edema”. The doctor said when you put it in, your vision will be very blurry for a couple of hours. I put the stuff in and amazingly everything was very blurry. I went to sleep.
In my chat with the doctor, we discussed that if I had to they could do the cornea replacement and then do Lasix and I would have perfect vision. Cornea replacement surgery is not a simple one week recovery like laser surgery. It would probably take six months to a year. I think I’ll give it a few more years for the surgeons to hone their skills. Patience. I just have to have patience.
On the gaming front:
I haven’t had a good gaming session in a week. Between family, Comdex, and the busted UPS, I haven’t had a chance to play many games. Squidly has helped to get me to play with his clan, but I just haven’t had a chance.
I guess I should make up a ToDo list so I can get all my RL stuff done and find time for gaming.
Styrofoamkitty is having a bad day.
After a week hiatus, Lukwam is back with a triple post.
Lastly, this will make my brother wonder what’s going on.

Catching up

OK, trying to catch up…
First, it appear that Trikster.com has awaken from a long slumber. Now that he’s working, he has plenty of free time to update his weblog. Conversely, Lukwam, who is out of work, has not updated in almost a week. Kids these days…
I wrote up the latest Geocache I did in Vegas.
Next, I wrote up my visit to Comdex 2002.
Lastly I picked up a bottle of Glenmorangie Sherry Wood Finish 12 Year Old Scotch today. Most tasty. Michele and I enjoyed a drink before dinner.
Now this is a information filled post. Drink deep of the original content. G’night.

G’night

I’m finally home and it’s almost 3.
The problem at work is fixed and the safety of children’s TV is assured.
The morning wakeup will come quickly…

Long day

It’s past midnight and the UPS is almost working. Almost isn’t good enough.
Hopefully within the hour we’ll be able to switch back. Until then, it’s time for coffee.
In other news, I want some turducken.

Ruh Roh

I’m at work and our UPS is busted. The UPS is the big battery that protects us against power failure. The upgrade/maintenance for it failed.
There’s a guy driving to Fullerton as I type to get a replacement for what we think is the problem board. IN rush hour traffic, we are talking about a 3 hour round trip.
Until then, we are running off our generator. We have about 40 hours of fuel. It could be a long night.

Back in SoPas

I’m back home. I was happy to see the girls. Michele was tired. That’s what 48 hours of non-stop girls will do to you.
It is book fair week at Zoe’s school, so I read two of the new books to the girls before dinner. We’ve been reading stories like Cinderella and Rapunzel and so the girls want to pretend to be the heroine. They insist that we ‘be mean’ and order them around. I tell them to go scrub the floor, and they pretend to scrub the floor, giggling all the time.
Michele insisted in making dinner and refused to let me pick something up. I’m sure she was concerned with my eating habits in Vegas, because tonight’s dinner had lots of spinach in it. Michele believes that spinach will heal all that ails a person. The meatloaf she made was good and I was happy to dinner at a table where I could hear no bells ringing.
A bit later I turned on my computer and found I had 222 emails waiting for me. I was gone around 56 hours without checking email. Thanks to Spamassassin Pro 143 spam emails were automatically placed in my Junk Email folder. Only 4 spam emails survived the filtering and were still in my inbox. SpamAssassin missed less than 3% of the spam and didn’t make mistakes with false positives. Buying that software is money well spent.
For those that are truly voyeuristic, the remaining 79 emails consisted of 57 Delt mailing list emails, 3 geocaching emails, and 19 miscellaneous emails.
I have a bunch of photos from the trip, but I don’t have the energy to write them all up now. You’ll have to do with this for now:


Martell, MSN Butterfly #1, Me, MSN Butterfly #2

Comdex

I’m at Comdex, sitting in the hotel waiting for breakfast. THe New York, New York hotel has broadband to the room for $10 for 24 hours. I tried wardriving, but I’m up on the 26th floor. I can see two access points, but I can’t get a steady signal to attach. I tried…
At the Keynote address, Bill Gates spoke about the Microsoft vision for the future of computing. The Tablet PC was a big thing, and they talked a little more about it. THey also showed the smart monitor. The difference is best described this way: The Table PC is like a cell phone, you can take it with you most places and it will work. The Smart Monitor is like a cordless phone in your house that works great near home, but doesn’t is you go too far away. People are going to like these things.
They also showed small devices they called SPOT. Small wirelessly connected items with personalized info. What they showed were small clocks that could recieve data from elsewhere. One of the examples was a smart alarm clock. I thought it was a dud. I did like the smart key chain. I’m the kind of guy that needs a keychain to remind me of times & places I have to be.
Gotta go, time for breafast…

Vegas Baby!

I’m off to Vegas for Comdex in 20 minutes.
It’s WiFi, Tablet PCs, and strange Japanese accesories for me until Tuesday.
See ya…
Yes, I did pack the cantenna into my luggage! I’ll wardrive the casinos!
To keep you in suspense, here’s the latest part I acquired to use in my wardriving fun. Michele thnks I’ve gone off the deep end.

A new drink

Tonight we were at the Diggs house for Emily’s 7th birthday. Obviously, a child’s birthday party is the right place to invent a new drink.
I present to you the newest alcoholic sensation.

Vodka + Red Licorice Soda = The Red Vine
Believe it or not, it tasted good.