15. 2 jars cucumber, plus 2 jars carrot+cauliflower, all 4 with onion, bell pepper, garlic Slice produce and cram into jars. About when they are half-full is when you want to slip the fresh dill into the sides with a butter knife or something. This time I sliced the onion across the midsection (so each slice has like 10 concentric rings) but left the slices in slice form rather than popping out the individual rings. These take up less space when crammed in the jar and you can cram in more food. ...

Thursday: I think I Thursday was the day I drove M’s car to the car shop to unlock the *%^$@! radio anti-theft lock which I don’t have the code to (now we do) and to get a replacement antenna. Radio code was free, antenna was $45 plus $55 labor. The sales guy at the car radio store can’t spell “antenna”. After arriving to work late, there were a couple meetings and pretty much time to go home. ...

Posted as a comment on someone else’s community entry. I wanted to keep it here for myself also. (Original comment was about boy1 behaving badly when author paid attention to boy2, and asks how to say “Listen you ass, you are dead wrong” in perhaps not just those words.)

More thoughts about “my principles and values”. This was written in response to a private message to a friend, but I wanted to keep it here for myself. Some of the original is elided…

I added althaea to my friends page because she seems to write some cool stuff. I also seem to have picked up a couple more friends due to what I will call The althaea Effect. Welcome kidarrian and creentmerveille. The reading around here may not always be insightful, but will at the very least be honest. Usually I post like once a week to say what I did over the weekend, but sometimes I post something insightful or even clever. If you find my writing interesting, great, otherwise if you decide to wander off I shall not take it personally. I am writing primarily for me, and entertaining you the readers is not a huge priority, but I do try to be thought-provoking when the mood strikes.

Wed 10/1: Bike, 12.7 miles Thu 10/2: Bike, 14 miles Fri 10/3: none? Sat 10/4: Walking, 30 min Sun 10/5: Bike, 7 miles Mon 10/6: none Tue 10/7: none Wed 10/8: none Thu 10/9: none Fri 10/10: none Sat 10/11: none Sun 10/12: none Mon 10/13: Bike, 8.5 miles Tue 10/14: none Wed 10/15: none Thu 10/16: none Fri 10/17: Bike, 8.8 miles Sat 10/18: none Sun 10/19: none Mon 10/20: Bike, 10 miles Tue 10/21: Bike, 10 miles Wed 10/22: none Thu 10/23: Bike, 8 miles Fri 10/24: Sat 10/25: Sun 10/26: Mon 10/27: Tue 10/28: Wed 10/29: Thu 10/30: Fri 10/31:

Friday: Forgot what we did, probably had take out for dinner or something. Saturday: Up to my mothers to help her with her PC and deliver a new printer. It is a Brother fax/copy/print/scan thing (color and all) and I’m tempted to get another for myself ($99 refurbished). Mom seems to be doing fine. Driving home from 10:30 to 1:30 sucks since I was totally afraid I would fall asleep at the wheel… I stopped once for food and again for coffee. ...

World according to Verisign (thanks to bryant for the idea) Thanks to Sitefinder the following people found their way to my server who otherwise would not have. from www.14159754614.com to 14159.com from search:“sex cartoos” to b5mush.nekodojo.org/events.txt from www.thesoundlord.com to soundlord.com from soundlworld.com to soundlord.com from www.throghdreams.com to throg.com I’m thinking this is a *really* helpful service. Completely worth all the hassle to admins and computer professionals world-wide. Or else I’m not thinking that… one or the other.

Having meetings to talk about best practices is actually quite fun. It would be more fun if Sacramento were not 2 hours away. That is all.

I was not supposed to be on call this week, but the guy who is on call has an unreliable phone, so it’s the next best thing. But at least I don’t get paid. There was index-push related foo so roughly half of that I wouldn’t have gotten out of anyway, but, well. However, despite a few rollover calls, I am feeling quite good about my job right now. I am like a lighthouse on the Sea of Uncertain Merger. Well, maybe not a lighthouse, but at least I am keeping myself focused. ...