Another Dayum.

Hi there. I'm awake now. Dat's it.

The Week in Review.

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.

New Science Fiction Genre.

I've just invented a new SF Genre. I'm sure isolated examples of it already exist, but it just occurred to me that one could write an entire series of books on the subject: Xenobiography.

Choose an alien planet, species and society. Pick an interesting member of that society. Write a biography for them.

Done right it could be lots of fun.