Aaargh!

I went to bed by 10:00 pm, because I was up at 4:00 am now. I'm awake again now, because I just went through the worst case of recursive dreaming I've ever had. I kept dreaming I was really tired and trying to sleep, and then something weird would happen and I'd wake up, only I would be really tired and hate the fact I was having recursive dreams, and then I would drift asleep again, or wake up to discover THAT was a recursive dream too.

AAAARGH!

I'm going to play solitaire for a few minutes, and then try the sleep thing again, if I can face it.

Hokay.

I've played some solitaire. I've read some LJ, and I've done a few other things to help get my mind moving in other chanels. No I'll go see if the sleep thing will work for me.

Awake -- Sort of.

Uhh. What a night. I'll never mix carrot juice and radish juice again!

Meanwhile, it has come to my attention that while I was asleep, no one was posting, so I had no more than 3 (three!) journal entries to read when I awoke. This is far too few folks. Maybe even pathetic. I want some interesting entries to read when I wake up! So get to it already!

Whew!

taxlady got an e-mail today informing her that my long-standing ebay search for an issue of 'spawn of fashan' had borne fruit.

I have a morbid interest in owning a copy of this worst-actually-published-RPG-ever. (Hybrid is worse, but no one's ever gonna even TRY to pubish that.) Spawn of Fashan has actually gone through two separate printings; the second printing was due to the demand of folks like me who wanted to own a copy. Anyway, there's probably not more than 200-300 copies of it in existance, and you can't even find a bootleg .pdf of the rules, so I set up a standing-search order on ebay. It would have REALLY upset me to have one go on sale now when I can't afford it, but it turned out to be a false alarm. Someone is selling Issue #60 of Dragon Magazine and mentions its the issue which first reviewed Fashan. So, the search continues.

Lousy error reporting.

So, I am reminded once again why I am taking extra time to put in propper error reporting in a parser than will only ever be run a few dozen times. I get burned by other folks lax attitude towards errors all the time. I mean here I am, trying to do some web browsing, and I keep getting these 'Page contains no data' errors. Now I know that that isn't correct, because the device I'm browsing is a read-only penguin, and there is no doubt that is contains data of some sort. I mean the fish counts alone will occupy a few K, never mind the DNA and its little dreamy dreams. So, I grab the penguin and ram home a packet sniffer, and I discover that, indeed, the penguin is emitting all sorts of responses to the http probes, but they aren't being relayed because they have a mime type of 'application/extended-penguin-device-error' which my browser thinks it understands, but it doesn't. Anyway, once I can see the errors, it becomes painfully obvious that something is wrong with the automount script. Sure enough for some reason it defaults to a FAT filesystem for a penguin, and this guy is fairly lean. He is, however, Reiser compatible, and so after a bit of script tweaking I fire up my browser again and suddenly his lunch is all over my web pages.

So, THAT problem is now solved and I just need to arrange the fish heads into correctly tabulated columns, and I'll be able to get on with something else.