Smug me. Another 4 trays of jerky is in the dehydrator. The slicer works MUCH better on frozen meat. Slower, but much better slices. That is all.

Wow, if I were not tired, I would be smug. Did a lot of crap this weekend. Friday: Trader Joes, purchased snacks. Rite Aid, get soda. Home, drop off soda. Gaming at Merlin’s. Game happened to be quite cleric-centered but I managed to not monopolize the session, I think. Saturday: Installed Paperport and didn’t scan anything. Spent a long time playing around with Windows Users and Groups - created a Roaming Profile and Home Directory on the Samba server. Found out that this makes the account take like 8-10 minutes to log in, because it has to copy all your preferences and shit every time you log in or log out. Backed out of that crap. Stripped the futon and sprayed Nature’s Miracle on it in four places. Leave it out to dry. Washed 4 loads of laundry. Went to get take out for dinner. Folded clothes, watched TV. Put a load of dishes in the washer, mostly pots/pans. Unpacked the new electric food slicer. Sliced some salami with it. Took 4 bags of pissed-on bedding into the bathroom. Went over each with black light, and sprayed each with Nature’s Miracle. This took about 4 hours and consumed an entire gallon of Nature’s Miracle. Bed not dry yet. Covered up wet spots with plastic bags and made the bed, slept in it. Sunday: Took a shower. Played on the computer for a while, viewing bills and statements and “printing” them into PDF using Paperport. Sliced the steak with the electric slicer. Slices came out funny because the blade keeps pulling the meat down, but if you flip the steak each time it works OK. Next time I will try it frozen. Cleaned the slicer. This is an operation in itself, and took about as long as slicing the meat. Went over each piece and the base unit with soapy water, plain water, then plain water with a shot of bleach. Take that, microbes! Took the well-sprayed bedding to the coin laundry. Did another 5 loads of bedding and 2 loads of clothes and towels. Met D and C for dinner at Chili’s. Then to Bed Bath and a Handbasket. Then to Barnes and Noble. Then home. Not done yet! Took slices of meat marinading in soy sauce and set them out to be dried. Filled up 4 trays of the food dehydrator. (Making jerky, though you probably figured that out by now, you’re clever folk.) Sprinkled on black pepper and garlic powder. Looked around for futon cover. Realized that I probably left that at the coin laundry in the dryer. sh!t Typed up this entry. Now it is time to make the bed (again!)

I had some meetings at Yahoo HQ today, so I took advantage of the opportunity to scope out the place and touch bases with some people. Official meetings were as follows: Ops-swat. NY suite is closed, walkthrough completed, suite turned over, done deal. Not much else to report. BSD qa install. Touched bases with East who is in Y site ops, he will install kernel on qapicrawl machine. Gladiator QA. Erik, Cameron, Linda are tracking it, nothing really for me to do. Babel & Shortcuts brain dump. I gave Y Site Ops the operational highlights (not much) and I will send links to our docs. Not much dramatic there. Their team seems to be a lot like ours. ...

I posted a friends-only entry just now about the job search. If you can’t see it and want to, let me know and I’ll friend you (or if you’re not an LJ user, I can send it to you). Now, please enjoy the picture of a moose enjoying himself.

Posted for willowisp and callicrates but others might be interested too. Here is how I have spamassassin set up at work and at home… I wanted to have a system that SpamAssassin runs mostly by itself, but when it learns something wrong I want to be able to correct it. 1. .procmailrc edited for the following:

More spam blacklist fun. There is a cool tool called “SPFILTER” that automatically downloads the newest copies of several blacklists, and creates a combined output in several formats. (Bruce- maybe you can help me install this on mail8,9 Monday.. :) # mkdir /usr/local/adm/spfilter/ # cd /usr/local/adm/spfilter/ # wget “http://spfilter.sourceforge.net/spfilter-0.59/Makefile" # make all # perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> install XML::Simple cpan> install XML::Parser cpan> exit # perl ./spfilter.pl -verbose -format=sendmail,bind SPAM RELAY

Added new cat pictures here: Gallery Cats (all new ones are on page 10)

Hmm, it’s been a while since I made pickles. This time I made 4 jars (1L each). 2 are cucumber and onions, and 2 are carrots, onions, yellow bell pepper. All have fresh dill, and fresh garlic. Brine solution contains: water, cider vinegar, champagne vinegar, white wine vinegar, raspberry vinegar, sugar, salt, yellow mustard seed, pickling spice, dill seed, dill weed (dried), powdered ginger, onion flakes.

Something I am thinking about working on this month. This is probably only interesting to anti-spam advocates, sysadmins, and other hard-core geeks.

For those of you who watch Good Eats but don’t read , Alton Brown has posted another Rant, this time on cattle-raising practices. Also, if you want to keep updated on Alton’s Rants, there is an LJ syn feed of his blog at alton_brown. It doesn’t have the whole entry, just the first line and a link, but at least you will know when something new is posted.