Well it looks like register.com fumbled my request in a bad way. So if you need to reach me, please try my alternate email “gconnor@nekodojo.COM” or gconnor@av.com. Went something like this. Q: (12:13 am) Hello, I have moved one of my DNS servers. Can you please change the IP for ns1.nekodojo.org to 64.139.47.218? Thanks. A: (12:56 am) You’ve requested to modify DNS for your domain name. Please respond to this email … In the ‘Notes’ section, please outline the changes you’d like made to your account and state that you confirm those changes. ...

Oh is it time for another weekend report? OK. Left work just about on time Friday, and met with Laura here at the house. Laura is going to be doing some work for me on the Nekodojo family of servers, because I kinda would like someone else to do the sysadmin stuff around the dojo for a while, and she gets some internship points out of it. Together we will work on migrating the servers to the new DSL, migrating charon services to neko-base, and other cool projects, time permitting. Excellent! ...

Secret entry In case any of you decide to be envious, yes, I have someone, but no, that doesn’t necessarily mean I’m getting any. Still haven’t gotten any since, well, let’s just say well before my last post on the subject. :( Maybe once M gets off her meds we can work on it more. Hmm.

Well the neighbor had some people over and they were all looking at papers around the kitchen table. And he took his “for sale by owner” sign down. So hopefully that means he will be selling and getting the hell out of here. Usually I can’t tell what is going on inside his place but he had the shades open, which makes me think he was showing off the excellent view to the people inside. ...

Thursday: Got a gift for M at Shane Co (earrings) and stashed it in the trunk for later. The initial idea was to hide it somewhere in the house and give her an innocent-looking box of chocolates with a clue at the bottom, but something else came up (see below). I arrived home and we left again to go look at futons for the spare room. After choosing a decent futon of the “loveseat” variety (not as wide as a normal couch, it folds out and extends and you bring out the extra piece of futon to stick on the end to make a double bed). The guy took forever to write up the invoice, but we were in no particular hurry. Set up delivery for Saturday. ...

M’s parents were here most of the weekend. It’s great to see them! We didn’t really do anything special, just watched TV and hung around the house. That was fun and relaxing. We left the house to go to Fry’s once (with a stop at Cost Plus) and a couple times for grocery shopping. We had salisbury steak Friday, Chinese Saturday, and gnocchi Sunday. They left early Monday morning. Covad guy came today and was actually successful in hooking up DSL. That is cool. Now I can change the new server over to Megapath and start migrating users over.

Wednesday: Crazy day before leaving, trying to wrap up all kinds of loose ends both at work and at home. I decided to work from home so I could run a couple of errands without losing too much time. I had one conference call meeting and one irc virtual meeting. I managed to get a large amount of crap done, both work and home, though I was up until like 1 am.

Last Saturday: Thought about going out observing, but my back was bothering me a bit, so we decided to stay home and watch a movie instead. See Stupid Neighbor Tricks for summary of the remainder of the evening. Last Sunday: Didn’t really feel like going out of the house, due to my back still bugging me, and not wanting to see the neighbor outside. Stayed inside pretty much all day. Monday: Went to work. buncha meetings. ...

Dear Neighbor, I’m writing to apologize for the noise earlier tonight. Our roommate is moving out, and she rented a steam cleaning machine, so we used the machine to clean other parts of the carpet as well. Unfortunately the only time we had available to work on this was 7:30 to 8:30 and the machine was due back the following day. This is a one-time event and I don’t expect to have any future needs to clean carpets in the evening. ...

Had some problems with the neigbor making loud noises again. Since this was disturbing our movie, I decided to do something. Since he reacted rudely when I complained before and basically told me not to call him next time, I decided to call the police instead. If you want the whole story, check out my letter to the management company: Harriet, I am a resident/owner at Vista Del Lago. I have been having problems with a neighbor making excessive noise. I’m not exactly sure what to do… can you please let me know what can be done, and/or forward the complaint to the VDL Board members? ...