Worka Worka.
Mar. 29th, 2004 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupDidn't sleep a lot last night. Hence the dire grumbles this morning. Since I find that Sti needs his sleeps or he's not creative, I pretty much spent the day doing mindless (but necessary) tasks, like cleaning the office, finishing ripping some CD's so I could put them away, tossing out documentation for Atari ST software that was long out of date before I got rid of my ST some 12 or more years ago, and so on.
The office cleaning also turned up an ISA plug-and-play LAN card that I had not realized I had. Its only a 10MB/s card, but by rearranging things so that it talks to my 3MB/s DSL modem, instead of the 100MB/s card that is doing that now, it should allow me to set up the new server on a fully isolated net segment and give everyone on THIS side of the firewall full speed access.
I also got a phone call from Mom. She's back now from my Uncle Alex's funeral. Its looking like he died of a sudden heart attack. The doctor said he'd probably had 2 or 3 small ones earlier, and hadn't figured out what they were. Heart attacks are endemic in the men on my Mother's side of the family, so I suppose that's even more reason for me to go on Atkins and try to lose some weight.
It also looks like my Mom plans to have my two brothers and I split a part of her share of the inheritance. My share will go a long way towards paying off our debts, and it will probably be enough so my parents can finally retire properly. I'm both grateful for the money that will (eventually -- after the estate is settled) come my way, and feeling rather ghoulish about the very idea of inheriting money from a dead uncle. I guess I still don't know what to think about this.
The office cleaning also turned up an ISA plug-and-play LAN card that I had not realized I had. Its only a 10MB/s card, but by rearranging things so that it talks to my 3MB/s DSL modem, instead of the 100MB/s card that is doing that now, it should allow me to set up the new server on a fully isolated net segment and give everyone on THIS side of the firewall full speed access.
I also got a phone call from Mom. She's back now from my Uncle Alex's funeral. Its looking like he died of a sudden heart attack. The doctor said he'd probably had 2 or 3 small ones earlier, and hadn't figured out what they were. Heart attacks are endemic in the men on my Mother's side of the family, so I suppose that's even more reason for me to go on Atkins and try to lose some weight.
It also looks like my Mom plans to have my two brothers and I split a part of her share of the inheritance. My share will go a long way towards paying off our debts, and it will probably be enough so my parents can finally retire properly. I'm both grateful for the money that will (eventually -- after the estate is settled) come my way, and feeling rather ghoulish about the very idea of inheriting money from a dead uncle. I guess I still don't know what to think about this.
