I saw that Barack Obama will be speaking at the Kerr Scott Building at 12:30 today. Tickets are required but the campaign headquarters is a short walk away from my office so I took a stroll to pick them up.
I was presented with a sign on the door saying tickets were sold out. I looked at my watch: it was five after ten. Tickets went on sale at 9:30 and sold out 25 minutes later.
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Remember how I wrote recently of how dry my office is? Something happened today I’d never seen before. I returned from getting a cup of coffee and forgot to ground myself before touching my computer.
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Is it just me, or is Raleigh Police Chief Harry Dolan impossibly tall? Is he bionic or something? I just saw him leave the Morning Times and I swear he towered over the trucks next to him.
If Godzilla ever does attack Raleigh we’ll be ready.
I checked the status of my Amazon shipment tonight and blinked when it said “delivered.” Sure enough, I opened the front door and there it was: the Planet Bike mega-bright bike light I mentioned and a CD thrown in to qualify for free shipping: Cake’s B-Sides and Rarities.
The Cake CD makes my second CD purchase that resulted from Pandora. I love their cover of Mahna Mahna. Its cool in only the way Cake could make it.
The bike light really is bright. I’ll get an opportunity to try it out Thursday night.
After tracking down an issue with our VoIP provider here at work, I rediscovered the wondershaper script: a tool which adds quality of service rules to Linux-based firewalls. It immediately cleared up my dropped voice packet issue at work and has worked well at home, too.
Since the script was written in 2002 and I first discovered it not long afterward, I had been under the impression that I was using it at home. It turns out I wasn’t, so its good to have put it in place again.
One of these days I’m going to come up to speed on all the quality of service minutia.
We had an interesting weekend. Saturday afternoon, the family and I were in a TV commercial (more on that in a bit). Sunday, I went north to the Hobhouse house, borrowed my neighbor Frank’s truck, and fetched the rain tank for use at our new home. My new neighbor Brian and I wrestled it over the fence into our new backyard. Not long afterward, Frank and Brea brought their kids over and we had our first real entertaining in our home.
It sure was fun seeing our friends again. Made our new home seem even friendlier. And margaritas sure are tasty when one has no need to drive anywhere.
Kelly and I finished up our taxes last night. I thought it was pretty sneaky that our tax software asked if we had a refund from last year. Seems the IRS taxes refunds now. I’m all for paying my fair share, but getting taxing on money that I don’t owe? Well, that’s a bit much.
And some people wonder why others don’t trust their government
I spent a few hours this evening uploading some photos I took of downtown Raleigh landmarks last month. These now illustrate many Wikipedia pages related to Raleigh.
I’ve released them to the public domain. You can view them on my Wikimedia Commons contribution page (avoid the geek-speak on the page and just click on the links).
Fold ’em! Spindle ’em! Make a million bucks with ’em. I don’t care. Just enjoy them!
I cleared out the settings on my bike computer for the first time in a year or more. Started the counters at Hallie’s school as I left for work.
I ride almost exactly two miles to work and do so in under 12 minutes (and this was sloppy timekeeping, too). Thus I average roughly 10 MPH, though I do tend to ride at 14-17 MPH between stop signs and traffic lights, and of those there are many.
It will be interesting to see what speeds I reach on the way home, which is mostly downhill.
