I seem to have this knack for getting up really early and yet never being able to make it out of the house until about 8:30. Of course now I’ve started using that time to do work stuff. Mostly reading documentation and getting the stuff done that I can never seem to get done when I’m in the office.

I found out that an aquaintence of mine was diagnosed with cancer. Things like this seem to affect me differently now. It freaks me out a little bit more because I seem to see it all over the place now. This has been quite an eventful year or so as far as friends with medical conditions. There’s me and my lung, Jay with his brain, and now this. I asked my friend Rachel to send my best to her, since she knows her better. I just wish I could help more.

In some ways it makes me appreciate how some of my friends must feel. I have this odd lung condition and they know it is serious, but all they can really do is offer support. And they really do an amazing job of it. People are continuously offering to help me out. I just need to be much less stubborn and prideful and accept it more often.

On another completely random note. I ran into my old high school friend Julie, who lives one building over, and found out that our other good friend Tamson is moving back soon. I’m actually fairly psyched. I’ve fallen out of touch with Tamson since she moved back out to San Diego and I miss hanging out and chatting with her.

I just found out that Utena isn’t all out on DVD yet. So I’ve started watching something that I can’t see all of. AUGH.

On another note. My friend colleen is cycling across the US on her way to Burning Man. Folks should check out the site tracking her: Intrepid Heroines. It sounds like it has definitely been quite a trip, but she is cranking along. I am really impressed. It is one of those things I’ve always wanted to try to do. Who knows, maybe someday I’ll be able to.

So everyone I know has been taking the Find Your Spot test. I just took it and got the following results:

1. New Haven, CT
2. Providence, RI
3. Boston, MA
4. Hartford, CT
5. Albuquerque, NM
6. Worcester, MA
7. Danbury, CT
8. Stamford/Norwalk, CT
9. Newport, RI
10. Santa Fe, NM
11. Cambridge, MA (<-- home!)
12. Baltimore, MD
13. Reno, NV
14. Los Cruces, NM
15. Washington, DC
16. Las Vegas
17. Portland, OR
18. Eugene, OR
19. Cape Cod, MA
20. Corvallis, OR
21.Little Rock, AR
22. Annapolis, MD
23. Amherst, MA
24. Northampton, MA

I thought it was pretty interesting the places it came up with. More of a few have been places that I have lived or have wanted to live.

Utena is strange, but quite cool.

So I added my second review to Boston Brunch. I’m enjoying playing around with the site. It has definitely refined my web skills from a programming standpoint. There’s definitely something nice about seeing a project through to completion. Especially something like this. I personally think that small little sites like this are what makes the Internet so cool. I remember when I’d be browsing around and find that someone had just done something like this, I’d just be so impressed. A big part of it was because they were doing it for no reason other than “it would be neat”.

LOTD: Mr T. vs Everything
A guide to everything Mr. T
(yeah, I’ve been bad with updating this lately)

So I feel like an idiot.
I finally fixed the DNS information for my web box, and suddenly I wasn’t able to post any blogs. Took me forever to figure out that the old hostname wasn’t working!

I got my new B&W G3 last night. My friend Jeff was selling it since he’s going more portable these days. It’s quite sweet. Within about 3 hours of setting it up I had OS X installed. I’ve already got X, fink, screen, and tf installed. My next step is to set up fetchmail so that I can use this box as my own mail server. I think it should end up being pretty cool.

I still can’t believe how much of a mac person I’ve become. Jeff was saying last night that he was still stunned by it. But the jump really wasn’t that big, since OS X is still basicly unix on the inside.

So the site is up. I think I’m comfortable with people banging on it some.
To reach it, go here. You should be able to do everything except searching, though that will be working a bit later today.

Ugs.
I’m just up for a few minutes. I went out to a show at Club Passim last night and when I got home the power was off. I have to say this must have been the crappiest night for such a thing to happen. It was so humid. I kind of crawled into bed and slept quite uncomfortably. But, the light in my room just came on. So I’m up to turn on my a/c (gotta put that drain back on the electrical system as soon as I can). Of course, now that I can sleep I’ll probably end up oversleeping.

My new web project is getting closer and closer to opening up.
Did I say new? Well, new in the sense that it isn’t live yet and should be soon. I’ve actually been working on it for a few months. The site is called Boston Brunch. Over a year ago friends of mine and I were at sunday brunch and decided that we needed to find a way to find new brunch spots. So I opened up my big mouth and said, “We should have a web site!” Nothing really ever came of it at that time.
Fast forwrad to about two months ago. I rebuild my linux box and decided that this is as good a time as any to look into it and start coding it. I’m about 3/4s of the way done with it and hope to be able to show at least a tiny bit of it off soon.