Sunday Morning! O how I love Sunday morning!
But I missed it completely... slothfully sleeping until 13:00.
And I'm unhappy. No, not about missing Sunday Morning... I'll take my sleep when I can get it. I'm unhappy for a number of reasons:
- We went to the North Star last night. The "Best Steak in Kansas" sign has been removed, and with good reason. I am disappointed. No, I am devastated. As I mentioned a few months ago, they were bought out by the Blind Tiger; and the management now has some different ideas... all, I'm sure, oriented to the bottom line. They are now different... as in worse. OK steak, but the Outback's is better... and they changed the french fries and the gravy. Frozen french fries, gravy-from-a-mix. Blaugh.
- Networksplus.net is having problems. They are trying to fix them, but right now... and since 03:00 last night... no mail, no www access. I am cut off from the world. This is unfortunate, for the world probably doesn't miss me as much as I miss it. I was hoping to keep this a secret.
- The mailserver over at Liquidweb is also messed up... no forwarding, the mail doesn't even appear on the system, looking at it when I could telenet in. They are probably trying to fix the majordomo interface with the mail system, which they promised me that they would do... and screwed the whole thing up. This is just speculation, of course. But it would follow an established pattern...
I now have my Linux system running. That means that I can start thinking about what I am going to do with it. I had some ideas a coupla months ago, when I first thought about doing it... but now I forget.
But when I can remember, I can get started on it. I do believe that it will be fun. There is an xwindows application that I installed, sorta like windows, I guess, but I think that I'll leave that alone for right now until I know the system a lot better from the prompt. Starting off with the windows might be a lot easier, but if that's what I wanted to do I wouldn't be doing Linux at all.
We went to the North Star with Kim and Bob last night, and they provided the entertainment... they started off having a spat about what to order and stuff escalated from that. They soon resolved their problems and we were able to order... setting ourselves up for the disappointment that was to follow.
We were done eating about 21:30, and we were the last ones out of the place. The last ones. Usta be, their business was just getting started at 21:00. Again... what a disappointment. I've been going there for... well, since 1970. I will miss the place. I already do.
We talked to the waiter, David Benson, about the changes, and he agreed with the criticism that we had to offer, and said that, point for point, he had brought it up with the new management. They didn't listen to him. His partner, who has been there about as long as David, was noticeably absent. Maybe a day off, maybe they fired him, maybe he quit in disgust. I didn't ask David about him.
So... since I can't FTP this, I'll just leave it open, I might think of more to say later.
20:50...
No internet access=work getting done. Yep, I actually did some Physical Work this afternoon. Got all of the yard work done in the front anyway... Karen made me stop before I got the back done.
Did the edging, cut the grass, cleared out the "Flower-boxes" with the weedwacker, cut a bunch of lower branches off of the maple trees... got a lot done.
I've cut my mowing-walking speed down pretty low, trying to find a rate that doesn't bother my legs. Unfortunately, that doesn't get anything done at all... so I just go really slow. The grass was still pretty damp, it's been raining just about every morning lately, and it was cloudy today still, but no rain since this morning. There were t-storms moving in when I went to bed at 02:00 last night, I guess they lingered on until 10:00 or so.
Hopefully, I can get the back done tomorrow. Sometimes stuff like not having the grass mowed bothers me... but mostly it 
doesn't. Right now it does, though, and I wish that it didn't. The problem is... the yard looks so nice when I work on it!
Not that there's not a lotta other stuff that needs doing... I need to paint all of the trim, it's been a long, long time since that's happened. And I need to do some re-screening, and there's some wood rot under the front overhang, need to replace a coupla boards... gee, the list goes on and on. It'll all get done, eventually.
Or not.
Karen fixed a wonderful roast for supper, Bob and Kim and Lacee were here too. Lacee insisted that Karen sit by her and not me at the table. I think that my diagnosis the other day is correct... I'm a threat to little Lacee. She wants her Gramma all to herself. My mother called her "The Other Woman" which is entirely appropriate... and I haven't a clue as far as what to do about it, if anything. It's really pretty amusing...