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Today’s writing brought to you by the King of Cups, Eight of Wands, Four of Cups, and Seven of Swords.

Not much writing practice tonight. I am instead going walking to 7-11. However, I have some cards I should study: Prince of Pentacles, Queen of Swords, Four of Swords, and Prince of Wands.

This makes me laugh: Strongbad’s Email

Today’s random writing is brought to you by: the Five of Swords, the Four of Cups, and the Ace of Wands. 5S. Five of Swords Tempering, purifying, cutting away. Energy, courage, defense of the wronged, might for right. That which is temporal will be cut away or burned away. If reversed: Cruelty, wanton destruction, misuse of power. The subject of this card (not necessarily the Querent) has not yet learned that we receive what we give, or that we are all one, and that what is done to one is done to all. ...

I’m changing my userpic to “sorrow” for the time being, to express condolences and well-wishes for aelfsciene who lost a loved one today. Be well. Please excuse the lame drawing, but I wanted to create something from scratch (and I’m no kind of artist).

Tue 10/01: none Wed 10/02: none Thu 10/03: none Fri 10/04: walking, 30 min Sat 10/05: walking, 30 min Sun 10/06: none Mon 10/07: none Tue 10/08: none Wed 10/09: walking, 30 min Thu 10/10: walking, 30 min Fri 10/11: none Sat 10/12: um, does hauling computers up and down stairs count? Sun 10/13: twice maybe? Mon 10/14: none Tue 10/15: none Wed 10/16: none Thu 10/17: none Fri 10/18: none Sat 10/19: none Sun 10/20: none Mon 10/21: none Tue 10/22: none Wed 10/23: none Thu 10/24: none Fri 10/25: none Sat 10/26: none Sun 10/27: none Mon 10/28: none Tue 10/29: none Wed 10/30: none Thu 10/31: none

I would like to upgrade Charon, and then use the old Charon as the new Poly. This would allow me to retire the old Poly which is starting to show its age. The new Charon should be a small-ish PC (physical size) so that it can hide under the desk neatly. The current model has a 10G drive. This should probably be closer to 30G in order to be able to back up stuff onto the server from our personal PCs. Or we could go with a 9G drive and add a second 30G drive for backup/extra storage in order to be more flexible later. ...

Things I would like to change about my life, in no particular order: Diet, cooking Exercise Get a new house Daily writing Spend more time with friends Gaming Learn Japanese Learn Java

I got up at 9:00 this morning to work on upgrades to the mailing list software on poly. Everything went smoothly, and we are now running mailman-2.0.13 (last version was 2.0.5). As a side effect I noticed that there is one list with 19 messages waiting for moderator approval, and the moderator’s old address doesn’t work anymore. Everything seems to be OK with the new version, however. I feel like this week was pretty productive as far as work is concerned. I still feel that there is a lot more stuff we could be doing to improve our operation, but that we don’t have enough staff on hand to get ahead. Still we were able to clear out some old pending items, so that is forward progress. ...