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So, once more I'm awake. Hmm. It seems I start lots of journal entries that way. Maybe I shouldn't make a 'good morning' post part of my routine? Anyway, I've been up for several hours now, and am happily working away at figuring out how to get propper DNS services up on my little network firewall, so that I don't have to rely on other people doing in-domain delegation for me. AND, I want to take a look at IPv6, since I hear they are still giving away IP addresses and/or domains for IPv6, any my firewall claims to be fully 6-compliant, as does XP and Apache...

Why is it that I only seem to do my best work when I wake up early, when I HATE waking up early?????

Yeargh!

Now I know why I never tried to make the models that Lego kits always give instructions for. My color perception is bad. The colors in the book don't match the colors in the photographs, which don't match the colors on the bricks, which don't have consistent colors. So, I'm halfway through a bug and discover I need ANOTHER hinged green thing, but there aren't any more. So, maybe what I thought were suposed to be green were black? 20 minutes later I find that that theory doesn't work either, because some other brick is not found. Worse, I've just discovered a case where two bricks that appear identical in color in the manual (they actually abut) cannot possibly be the same color, because both shapes don't exist in any one color in the set! Of course, I had to go online to find an actual inventory of the set to prove this to myself. So, I currently don't know of any way to build the bug I'm working on, without just ignoring all of the color info. But if I do that, why build the thing?

Maybe I'll go back to what I always did as a kid: make up a tentacled, bug-eyed creature from whole cloth and to hell with a color scheme....

(And _sps_, I don't want you to take the above as some sort of condemntation of your gift. It is appreciated. I just sometimes wish I could see colors properly...)