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May 16th, 2009- Day 2 begins!
I must say that getting 8hrs of sleep last night has really improved my mood. #
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Day 2 begins!
I must say that getting 8hrs of sleep last night has really improved my mood.
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@rosiesgrosso we’d expect nothing less. ;-)
The long day is almost over, I’m finally on the ground in Dayton…
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Bye bye DFW – it was a nice 4 hour visit! Next stop hamfest central.
@nomadness thanks! Its my 4th year and still enjoy. Best part is running thru flea market Friday morning looking for goodies.
RadioGeekLog, StarDate -313633.345 (12:23PM PDT – 05/14/09)
On the plane now from Seattle to Dallas, TX. We left something like 1.5 hours late. Flight was delayed due to weather (thunder storms) in Dallas and then traffic jam when we finally pulled away from the gate. The only good thing I can say about my traveling experience so far is that I didn’t get violated going through security this morning. Why is this surprising? Because I always get pulled aside, unless I’m traveling with Rosie & Isaac. (The little guy is amazing, I could probably sneak a canon through with him) Anyhow, security was to busy this morning, they were screwing with the Black man in front of me and the Mexican family coming through behind me. Basically the US sucks with situations like this….
So now I’m on the plane, I’ve listening to one of my oldest playlists on my iPod, what I call RandomBuffett2. It is all sort of my favorite Jimmy Buffett songs, but his lighter story songs. I haven’t listen to much Jimmy lately, actually none in a long time. I still love it, I just haven’t been in the mood for it. But right now it is perfect. While waiting for the plane at the airport, I started listening to my Albert Einstien book I got for the trip. Highly recommend, really amazing insight into his life which was all taken from his personal papers that have just recently been released.
So normally I don’t get my laptop out on the plane, because it is so cramped, but I figured I could use the time to do some house cleaning. I recently went through my entire Documents folder on my desktop, sorting and tossing stuff. It now has some sort of order to it and I’m applying the same structure to my laptop. My master plan is to ultimately put everything in/under Git and then keep them sync’d. I have just fell in love with Git and have been putting all the technical pieces in place for a couple months. (Yes, I’m slow at this kind of thing. Sometimes I go for a week before having a chance to spin back up on a project) Anyhow, I now have Git compiled and installed on all the macs and linux boxes at home.
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I’m still missing something on the Git front. I know it doesn’t use a central server to keep things in sync like CVS/PerForce do. I get that and is one of the reason I choose it, but I still want to keep different machines in sync with each other. So there has to be a way to push/sync between different Git trees, other then using a commercial service like GitHub. Actually GitHub makes sense to me, but there must be a way to-do it without having to pay for a service. Shouldn’t the two Git tree’s be able to sync over SSH or something? The very good book on Git I bought just seems to completely skip over this point or I’m being dense and just missing something obvious.
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So I’m on the plane, half sleeping and half listening to JB and the pilot finally turns off the seatbelt sign. So I make my mad dash to the bathroom to get rid of the liter of water and soy chai I drank before getting on the plane. With my business done, I make the hike back to the front of the plane. So I’m pretty use to seeing iPods everywhere now, they just sort of blend in. But I was shocked to count no fewer then five macbooks out on the way back to my seat. This is amazing, because I didn’t see any other laptops. That is crazy amazing to me.
Now back to the sorting, purging and organizing. I’m currently going through a directory which has followed me pretty much intact from Supra (early 90’s) to 3Com (mid-90’s) to Microsoft (early 2000’s), pretty much unchanged. I sort of stopped adding/changing it when I left MSFT, I don’t know why exactly, but I suspect that was the point where I stopped using a Windows machine for much of anything and moved to a Mac. Sort of like a tomb of old stuff.
(17:15 CDT, Dallas, TX)
Made it to Dallas, flight wasn’t horrible, certainly have had worst. I got my isle seat, so I wasn’t sandwich between two people. Big mistake this morning was not buying snacks. I was totally starving when we landed, so I said screw finding out about my flight, get me some food! After stuffing a order of rice and kang po into me, I called Rosie and she looked up my flight on the internet. I was getting worried because my flight wasn’t showing up on the board, while other flights in the same time frame were showing up, which means bad things like it being cancelled. Anyhow, my late flight was just made later, which pushed it out of the time period. I found one of those laptop rooms on the way to the other terminal, so I’m crashing here to get some electrons for my laptop and write this up.
Looks like tmobile is going to want a piece of me to actually get online. I’ll just steal their electrons for a while and use my crackberry for interenet. (Although I’m still paying tmobile for my crackberry, so I can’t win) I just checked, the day passes are only $8 a day, which isn’t so horrible I guess. Anyhow crackberry / google is showing different times then Rosie told me.
(19:50 CDT, Dallas, TX)
Just finished an amazing hamburger before I make a run for my flight. The times got worked out and I’m not scheduled to leave DFW at 8:30PM, getting in Dayton shortly before midnight. Should make for a fun morning tomorrow, since I have to be up at 6am, out the door at 7am and at the both by 8am. Fun, fun, fun.
Just landed in Dallas – lots of people are antse about connecting flights. I still have 3 hrs.