More like a Command Center every day...

[triadruid]

We (okay, mostly me) got a wild hair this weekend and rearranged the office, aka Entropic Trinity Command Center. It's a much more functional setup now for three computers, and much less inclined toward clutter, I think. We also got a wireless router and wireless-equipped printer at MicroCenter (kittenpants' childhood friend works there, doom!) and got those set up and running (after some cursing and threatening with the printer). Range doesn't seem to be a problem for kittenpants to work on her laptop in the main room, since she can see three wireless networks from there, two unsecured in addition to ours.

Next step: have liquidfun come over and help us sort out the last of our intranet problems (I can see both computers if I log in, K. can see both of ours all the time, C. can see K's but not mine). Fun fun...

Also, today is Bulky Item Pickup Day, which means we discarded a bunch of things out of the house. Two dead printers, two CRTs, a bed, the dog's long-since-destroyed wading pool and blanket, a freeze-damaged hose, a broken chair, the giant stuffed bear I won at PPD, and some fascia boards that don't seem to go anywhere, to be exact. The side benefits of bulky day are twofold: one, that some of the nicer of these things will 'disappear' from the curb before the trashman comes (by this morning, the bear, the CRTs, and I think some of the boards were gone); and two, I rode around the neighborhood last night on my bike and spotted a few things that we could use. In this case, I scored a undamaged milk crate (double wide), an apparently fully functional hose roller, and best of all, two slightly used 6'-tall bookshelves. That will help put off the time when we need to build floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in the main room of the house... not stop it, but at least delay it.

Step 3: Profit!
Okay, so I forgot my badge for work today.

Comments

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

I routinely speed read through my friend's page, catching occasional words & phrases, then re-reading when something catches my eye. In this case, what caught my eye was:

... means ... discarded ... things ... house: ... dead ... dog ... long-since-destroyed wading pool ... freeze-damaged hose ...

Wait a minute, discarding a dead dog! Re-read ... oh, oops.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Nope, the dog frequently lies around the yard like he's dead, but he's very active the moment he realizes you're watching him.

What's your schedule like this week? I'm home tonight or tomorrow, and at least one other person will be tonight, if you want to come over and look at things.

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

My only free evening this week is Thursday ... if you were wanting to get things done before that, orcjohn may be able to help as well ... there's a distinct possibility he knows more than me to boot.

Monday - Kids
Tuesday - KK
Wednesday - people at my place
Thursday - E3HQ?
Friday - Play, Kids
Saturday - Kids
Sunday - Kids

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Thursday might work, I'll have to check and see when kittenpants' modeling client comes over, day or evening.

I'm pretty sure we checked with orcjohn and his response was that most of his tech knowledge calcified about 1983. ;)

patron-client-server confusion

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Is a modeling client someone who models for you, or someone for whom you model?

Inquiring minds linguistic hobbyists want to know.

Re: patron-client-server confusion

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

In the above imprecise statement, it means that a model for her art is coming over.

scratch that

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

If I'd actually *read* the calendar, I'd see that it says 6:30. So Thursday is out; thanks anyway! If we can't get it figured out by next weekend, I'll check back in with you.

Drat.

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

And here I was getting used to those "It's Monday and I had a really f'd up Dream" posts of yours. Did they dry up?

Sorry to disappoint ;)

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Our weekend was fairly mundane and de-cluttering, so I guess my brain was not full of Teh Weird.