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Friday Night and Saturday

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I must have been exhausted: I went to bed at 8:30 last night and slept until 9:30 this morning.

It has been a pleasant day in a low-key kind of way. Progress on various fronts for the house and colgaffneyis, and spending a lot of time with mia_mcdavid.

Mia wants me to make a weaver’s bench to sit on in front of her loom. So we went to the Textile Center in Minneapolis, where there was a loom just like what she has here and a bench that she finds comfortable when using it. Key dimension: Height 25″.

One bit of geekery: I got the streaming audio from “A Prairie Home Companion” to work under Linux (Slackware 12). It hung with Firefox, but worked with Konqueror (under Xfce). Different plug-ins. I should look into this some more, but for now I have to give a point to the KDE team.

All in all, a good Saturday.

I was tired

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We got home from the MN Ren Faire about 4:30 yesterday afternoon and went to bed–we both needed naps. We got up for dinner, after which mia_mcdavid went out to join some friends at a concert in a western suburb. I could not face that, and returned to bed at 8:30. All told I slept for about 14 hours.

Good Saturday

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Slept long and well last night. Between camping in Chas. City, my cold, and work, it was the best sleep in over a week.

colgaffneyis quarterly membership meeting was today. This went quickly and smoothly under the circumstances. Several concerns about money, other resources, and personalities are very much with us, but the organization is coping so far this year. Despite limited publicity, quite a few members showed.

I rebuilt my main home computer this afternoon after Thursday’s hard disk failure. I had some hassles with hardware issues but none with the software (Slackware Linux) itself. I have a little configuration still to do but the system is usable now. Much easier than the last few times I have done a Windows install.

Watched The Producers (the original 1960’s version) on TV after dinner. It has been a favorite of mine for nearly 40 years, but I had not seen it in a while and had forgotten just how funny it really is.