I keep waking up early on the weekends. Have I become a morning person?

I’m still fighting some kind of cold thing. I can’t tell if I’m getting better or not, but I don’t think I’m worse, which is good. The plan for the day is to get some breakfast first thing, come home, nap, then head to Satellite Records right when they open to do a little record shopping. I haven’t been there in ages and have been getting back into the mode of spinning regularly since I have a gig coming up in a few weeks (and all of you in the Boston area are expected to show up dammit!).

Oscar Wilde. “Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”

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I boycott Starbucks fairly seriously.  I don’t like the way they do business.  I think they have stomped the classic coffee house in being an endangered species.  Well, now I have another reason.  The Shifted Librarian reports on Starbucks joining the ranks of cluelessness by demanding Backwash to remove all links to them.  Well, I can’t say they are losing me as a customer, because they never really had me.

Adam is delving into the world of email again and mentions that Pine rules.  I have to agree, but I’m not quite as quick to shrug off graphical email programs.  I think one issue is that many mail systems are not set up for how people would like to use mail.  In my case, I solved this problem by kind of rolling my own solution.

My email comes into my ISP and is downloadable via POP.  This is their primary way of making email available to their customers.  For most people, this would probably be fine, since they read their email on their home computer.  For me, this was an issue.  I have a laptop, I sometimes am home at my parents and dialing up there is a pain.  Looking around I found the perfect solution for myself.

I have two Macs.  I’ve got my TiBook, which goes just about everywhere with me.  And a B&W G3, which sits at home and does all kinds of serverish things.  OS X is installed on each of them.  While looking around for solutions to my email problem, I looked over on Stepwise and found an article on Email Servers and Mac OS X.  This was the perfect starting point.  My system now loads email from my ISP using fetchmail, runs it through spamassassin, filters it via procmail, and then I can read it either with something like Pine from a terminal window, or I can use Entourage and read it via IMAP from wherever I am.

This solution kicks ass for me because it means that no matter where I am I can access my email, even if it means using ssh to get into my G3 remotely.  Procmail and Spamassassin have done a wonderful job in filtering my email and reducing the amount of spam that gets into my inbox.

Last night I had put some laundry in the dryer and then forgotten about it till this morning. When I ran out to get it I noticed that someone had taken it out of the dryer. But what was so cool was that they’d folded it for me! I have no idea who did it, but thank you! That was so nice! I’ve lived other places where the people just would take your laundry out and leave it in a pile on the dryers, usually before it was fully dry.

Bertrand Russell. “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”

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I’ve got to recommend V.O.E. Anime Online (aka Vengeance of Excalibur). Lyn recommended it to me when I was looking for a good online store. I ordered from them last week and just got the CDs in today. Their service was pretty great (and they sent a really cool confirmation note).

Picked up more used CDs today. Someone needs to stop me. Today’s purchases:

• INSOC – INSOC

• Meat Beat Manifesto – Storm the Studio

• Siouxsie & the Banshees – Tinderbox

One thing that always puts me in a good mood is getting my hair cut. My friend Renee does such a good job. I hope to have pictures up within the next day or so. I just need to find someone to take them.

One thing I love about my job is that I get every other Friday off. I work slightly longer days, but it is worth it. I can always get all the stuff done that I can’t seem to get done other times. Today I get to have my hair done by my friend Renee, and we get to have lunch too. I seem to only get to see her when I get my hair done these days.

Tonight I’m debating going out clubbing to see John Acquaviva. I haven’t seen him spin in ages. As of right now I’m planning on going, but a lot of it depends on finding things like parking.