And yet another enjoyable but unproductive day. I seem to be having a run of those lately...
Speaking of runs... what do you get when you mix milk of magnesia with holy water?
A religious movement...
Enough levity! O'wait, there's no such thing as enough levity. There can be too much levitation, though. I really hate it when that happens.
The
Keirsey Profiles are up, though... got those finished today. I'm pretty happy with them. I'd like to do some more dissection of the numbers, though... needs more time and energy than I've got right now.
I solved the problem that I described yesterday in a brute-force manner... I put all of the males in one column and searched them and all of the females in another column. Stupid, stupid, stupid. That's either me of the people who designed the program... and they're all rich, and I ain't. Hmmm... I know that says something significant, doesn't it?
But I am rich in many ways... just not monetarily... the way most people measure being rich. Those poor people. Literally and figuratively... it would be nice to have it all, wouldn't it...
I'm in the process of putting Linux on the WIN2K machine, but it's not doing very well. I'm having trouble getting the CD-ROM to read the disk, so I cleaned the disk, and I cleaned the CD-ROM, and I still can't get it working. Seems that I had the same trouble on the last machine that I used it on, finally got it working. I might just have to go ahead and burn a new disk, though.
I think that I will be able to run a server off of it, using the WIN98SE as a proxy... but I'm not really sure. The CableModem people wouldn't like it, but there will be very little traffic initially anyway, so they'll never know...
Ah, crap! I guess I'll have to burn another disk, then. After 2 hours, I'm ready to give up on it.
And again, CRAP!
The original file is gone... I remember deleting it after I burned the disk, thinking that I'll never need it again... after all, I had it on a CD... damndamndamn.
O'well, with the cable running at over 100 MPS, it'll only take about a half-hour or so.
O'Wait again! I found the GOOD RH 6.1 disk! I'd forgotten that I'd made two... now the bad one is in the trash, where I should've put it in the first place.
So now it's happily chugging along, installing the server. So I'll have two linux machines on-line now. Things should get interesting... or maybe scary would be a better word for it?
OK, change of pace here... I was checking the image on the
SpyCam and noticed that it was pretty dark, which got me to thinking about how I seem to like dark places, while most of the people that I know like light places.
I seem to be more at home in the dark... maybe that's why I like working nights? I know that it's not the other way around.
I've always felt at home in darkrooms... photographic and radiographic, and I think that it's because I have an eye for detail, knowing where things are. I can usually go into a room and notice if it's changed since the last time that I saw it... if I leave a hammer on a bench in the basement and someone moves it an inch, I'll know that it's been moved.
I still can't tell when a lady has gotten her hair cut, or dyed, or whatever, though. I guess that's not as much of a survival thing as knowing where your tools are...
Anyway, I have, on occasion, gone camping with people who need to have the camp site lit up like their living rooms, and I don't understand that at all. I love to look at the stars when I'm out, and I can't do that when my pupils are constricted, dammit. It takes a lot of the pleasure out of being outdoors.
Darkness, or rather the lack of bright light, prevents you from seeing everything, and you have to use your other senses more. Like thinking... you have to be more perceptive, you can't accept things for what they appear to be. It makes things more life-like, embdued with more than just their appearance.
Ah, this philosophical stuff is way beyond me right now. Actually, it's beyond me most of the time... that's what makes it fun, heh.
Well, I'm going to get on with the Linux install, then head for bed. Karen is mostly off tomorrow, but she's got a meeting sometime in the morning, and Drew is coming over for a coupla hours, and then she has a dental appointment at 13:00... she's gonna have a busy day, and that means, somehow, that I probably will too.
More tomorrow...