Couch delivered. Delivery guys hate me so much because it was difficult getting it into the apartment. Note to self, to get it out, walk it out horizontally with the back facing down, cushion side toward the kitchen, past the first counter top. Between the counter tops, stand it up on it end on a trolly, cushions facing the counter. Compress the cushions and push toward the door, feet against the wall. Inside the doorway, rotate toward the door, lift up off the dolly. Pick up and tilt out the front door. Lift over the corner of the stairwell.
Out with the old, in with the new
Mar 9th, 2009 by bwann
I gave up on black and ordered a light brown couch today. My buyer took possession of the futon today as well, so the livingroom is feeling empty. The light switch in my bathroom was arching and trying to burn down my apartment, so I went to Home Depot. I bought my 54 cent switch and also walked out with a patio bisto set. I wanted this last fall, but none were to be found. In the meantime, it’s taken the place of the futon!
Furniture shopping
Mar 3rd, 2009 by bwann
I am all about supporting the economy lately. I’ve been looking for a new couch lately to replace my futon. I went to Star Furniture this weekend and spent over an hour sitting and laying on things. I found a Flexsteel couch I really liked, but found out tonight it would be a 120 day delay before I could get one delivered. This weekend I also spent 15-20 minutes laying on a Tempur-pedic mattress and actually felt good four a couple of hours afterwards. Found a good deal on Craigslist for one, so it’s been deciding between couch or mattress.
More firewall hate
Feb 16th, 2009 by bwann
Oh my god, this has gotten so hairy, unpredictable and complicated that it’s actually easier to write an expect script to log into a massive amount of firewalls to gather interface data.
Firewall SNMP hate
Feb 16th, 2009 by bwann
Cisco, your SNMP implementation on PIX and ASA annoy me. On every version from 6.x to 8.x, once you nameif an interface it removes any trace of what the physical interface is from IF-MIB. There’s no way to relate logical to physical, to know that ‘outside’ is ‘Ethernet0/0’. This is annoying because the datacenter sees X interfaces numbered 1-X, not ‘outside’ and ‘inside’, and they’ll document cabling as such.
Unless of course, you’re familiar enough with the hardware to know on a 5510 running 7.x ifIndex.1 is always ‘Ethernet0/0’, on 8.x ifIndex.1 is always ‘Null0’. Then you know if it’s a 5520, your interface names change to GigabitEthernet0/xx. Then you know if it’s a 5505, you’re pretty much screwed. And of course you know to make sure whenever there’s a new model firewall or firmware update you go back and update your code to make sure they didn’t sneak something else in you. blah.
I spent nearly three hours this week looking at packet dumps and coming up with a TCP-level explaination for a customer’s problem, only to have it shattered by bouncing it off a coworker. grr.
Tickets from AUS to AMS in mid-March are $371. That’s nearly what I just paid to fly to Boston!
E-mail disclaimer hate II
Feb 10th, 2009 by bwann
Wow, what I said goes double for long disclaimers that are translated into two different languages on every email!
E-mail disclaimer hate
Feb 10th, 2009 by bwann
Dear business world,
Please stop with the legal and confidentiality disclaimers on emails that stretch out 10+ lines. Same goes for top-posting on a thread of five e-mails in one. You’re annoying me to no end, especially when your added contribution is only one line.
Catching up
Feb 8th, 2009 by bwann
I suppose I should call this the unfinished blog entry since it’s been sitting in my editor for nearly exactly a week now.
I have acquired every episode of House and have successfully watched each episode. I’ve been watching it as it was on the telly every now and then, but now I’m complete. Season three has a nice share of cute blondes. At first I had a crush on the daughter of the cheese bacteria guy, Keri Lynn Pratt. Now I’ve passed her up and have an eye on the stalker 17 yr old, Leighton Meester.
I spent this last weekend being completely lazy, trying to catch up on sleep. After sleeping in until 1 PM, napping from 6 PM – 7 PM, tea from 9:30-10 PM, I’m fairly sure it’ll be up until 3 AM.
I spent this weekend being completely lazy as well. After a very busy week at work I wanted to either get out of town for randomness or do nothing. I had thought of driving 1000 miles to the east on Saturday to see where I’d wind up. Maps tell me I’d almost make it to Jacksonville, FL; the coast would be just a bit longer. I actually had a change of clothes in my pack ready to go, but sleeping in wound up winning instead. I’m still sleeping like crap.
I turn 30 in 38 days. It doesn’t seems like a earth shattering milestone, but means I’m no longer twenty-something. I hadn’t thought ahead to what I’m doing. Dean Karnazes ran his first 30 miler on the night of his 30th birthday. It’s unlikely I’ll do the same thing, but nice to know I’m not too far behind in the game. Folklore says I should be on my 2nd marriage by now and a successful manager. I got my eight year stint of running a company out of the way early, so I’m just short the [ex-]wife now.
I went out last Tuesday night to catch Mike and the Moonpies play at Hole in the Wall. It felt really weird going out, like I hadn’t seen that part of Austin in months. Wasn’t the same crowd I was used to seeing from the old Wednesday night shows, so I felt disconnected and out of place.
Carrying a several-hundred calorie/day deficit has hit a plateau. I had a steady weight loss for a couple of months and now can’t seem to get below 168. I’ve definately lost muscle mass, which I expect to gain back pretty soon when I start cycling again. I was wandering around the area today, lots of quiet neighborhood riding to be done up here. Many steep climbs to get there though.
Tiesto in Concert 2004 gave me a great idea for Burning Man. During Eastern Magik there’s this big huge (20′-30′?) cloth/canvas head on which a face is projected. The face just does nothing but look over the crowd, the gaze shifting from here to there. I can easily see that peering over the playa and getting a reaction. No idea if anything like that has been done. I’m short a powerful projector, crane, and canvas head anyways.
My project this year is generating enough electricity to run an RV air conditioner. So far the specs on what a unit requires are escaping me. I still intend to purchase a small wind turbine and better polycrystaline photovoltaic panels this year. I think between the two I should be able to generate several hundred watts during the day, but this isn’t enough to drive an AC continuously. Still looking into 12 V systems and swamp coolers. Either way, I should have enough juice to throw at the problem.
The Boston in-port races of the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009 are in May. My friend did not think much of my idea of moving his boat from Lake Travis to Galveston and sailing up to catch the action on the water. We’d have to depart like, last week, to make it in time. He has this silly notion that it’d be faster and cheaper to fly up and rent a boat up there. What happened to seeking adventure!
Cedar allergy hell
Jan 20th, 2009 by bwann
I am officially alergic to cedar pollen. It’s everywhere. Constant sneezing, runny nose, very itchy eyes. I started taking Zyrtec which helped some, then changed to Claritin-D. I bought a HEPA filter the other night and have been running it full blast in the bedroom. Still having problems with sleeping, hopefully I’m wore out enough after today to sleep soundly. The good thing about Claritin-D is the pseudoephedrine which leaves me mildly floaty feeling.
