The Week in Review.

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With me. Dave Lerhererer is busy. So there. Deal with it.

Anyway, today has been the end of a not-much-got-done sort of week. Lets see if I can recap:

• Saturday: Slept in until 3:00 pm, which was NOT my plan as I had _sps_ over as a guest. We pretty much just took it easy the rest of the day and kicked back.
  
• Sunday: Another day of just hanging around and talking to _sps_. Great for my morale, but not hugely productive. (Not necessarily UNproductive either though. The man often has good business ideas.)
  
• Monday: Zonked from not being able to sleep the night before. No work got done at all. Finally fell asleep around 2:00 pm.
• Tuesday: Woke up around 3:00 am, with plans to get some work done. I dunno what happened, but I certainly don't have much to show for it. I think all I did was maintenance-type stuff. Organize files, burn some CD's to make room on my hard-disk etc. I did have the idea that maybe my entrepreneurial plans need to be organized into some to-do lists, but I didn't get around to it.
  
• Wednesday: Spent the entire day figuring out the specs for a cheap server system that will run Linux reliably, so that _sps_ and I can have a machine to host some of the various web-based ideas we've had. Final price: $1050 Canadian. (taxes included). This will get us a 1.9GHz Athlon w/ 512MB of RAM, twin 160 GB drives to RAID together, and a 17" Monitor. Not too bad. Sent of the order by e-mail, hoping it will be ready by Friday. Was asked to come in for a job interview next Wednesday, which was good. Took the evening off to go play Catan.
  
• Thursday: Awoke with a migraine. This kind of put the kibosh on me doing anything creative that day, so instead I tried to do some research on a good free to-do list system. The best would be one that integrated with XEmacs. No luck.
• Friday: Which is today. I phoned the computer shop and found that they had lost the confirmation for the machine I ordered, so they hadn't even checked to see if they had the parts in stock yet, never mind starting the assembly. I later got an e-mail saying that the twin drives will be in on Monday, but they've yet to hear back on availability of the Motherboard. I then spent a few hours checking out the software made by the folks who might hire me. Frankly, it looks very amateurish. I now have NO DOUBT that I can improve their bottom line. The question is, can I convince them of that, and will they let me if I do?
  

So, there you have it. Wednesday was a good day, in terms of doing something, but as a whole week, it wasn't great. I did discover that at some time in the past I had very similar plans to the one for my geek-sign website as I found a bunch of old attempts at some drawings. _sps_ is coming over again this weekend in an ongoing campaign to attempt to keep my sane by subjecting me to measured doses of insanity. I guess I'll spend the next few hours playing with my old designs and seeing if there are any I should keep.