Thingses.

I passed my test on Sunday. So did Evan. We are both Novice Black now. Whee; welcome to Purgatory, as one of my instructors once referred to it. Now it's a several month challenge to get prepared for our Black belt test coming in February.

I'm going to have to build a usenet server here at work it seems. If I want reliable access, I'm going to have to do it myself. This is annoying. I have had only spotty Usenet access for the last month, and I'm over it. X-privat can't decide whether they want to give access or not it seems. Most days it's all connection refused on 119, other days it works okay. Their comp.* hierarchy is spotty as well, which is my main area of concern along with the Monastery and rasfwr-j. I don't know who x-privat peer with, but their only redeeming feature is being free, and even that's more pain than it's worth at this point (or I could pay to access their other server, but really, why would I do that? I can simply build a local server here, have complete control and just have to deal with getting peering between us and our provider set up). Hey look, I just happen to have this spare Dell PE650 in the rack running FreeBSD 5-STABLE with a spare 80GB SATA drive doing absolutely nothing right now. How ultra convenient.

This morning, I was officially in the 150s when I woke up and weighed myself. Ideally, I can get down to between 150 and 155 and maintain that. So between 5 and 10 more pounds, and I'm done with loss and just watching for gain. It also makes Tae Kwon Do a lot easier to not be carting around all that extra weight. My wife digs it too.

New Orleans. Nothing to say really. The ripple effect from this is going to suck. Hey, maybe the .gov could even step in and stop the gas and oil companies from price gouging the shit out of everyone and driving the price of, well, everything, up even further in the process. Oh wait, that wouldn't fit in with the Bush puppetmaster's overwhelming greed and their plans for grabbing even more for themselves at everyone else's expense. Someday, they'll live in the nicest crackhouses on the block, and blame other people for the deplorable state of things around them.

Thingses.

I passed my test on Sunday. So did Evan. We are both Novice Black now. Whee; welcome to Purgatory, as one of my instructors once referred to it. Now it's a several month challenge to get prepared for our Black belt test coming in February.

I'm going to have to build a usenet server here at work it seems. If I want reliable access, I'm going to have to do it myself. This is annoying. I have had only spotty Usenet access for the last month, and I'm over it. X-privat can't decide whether they want to give access or not it seems. Most days it's all connection refused on 119, other days it works okay. Their comp.* hierarchy is spotty as well, which is my main area of concern along with the Monastery and rasfwr-j. I don't know who x-privat peer with, but their only redeeming feature is being free, and even that's more pain than it's worth at this point (or I could pay to access their other server, but really, why would I do that? I can simply build a local server here, have complete control and just have to deal with getting peering between us and our provider set up). Hey look, I just happen to have this spare Dell PE650 in the rack running FreeBSD 5-STABLE with a spare 80GB SATA drive doing absolutely nothing right now. How ultra convenient.

This morning, I was officially in the 150s when I woke up and weighed myself. Ideally, I can get down to between 150 and 155 and maintain that. So between 5 and 10 more pounds, and I'm done with loss and just watching for gain. It also makes Tae Kwon Do a lot easier to not be carting around all that extra weight. My wife digs it too.

New Orleans. Nothing to say really. The ripple effect from this is going to suck. Hey, maybe the .gov could even step in and stop the gas and oil companies from price gouging the shit out of everyone and driving the price of, well, everything, up even further in the process. Oh wait, that wouldn't fit in with the Bush puppetmaster's overwhelming greed and their plans for grabbing even more for themselves at everyone else's expense. Someday, they'll live in the nicest crackhouses on the block, and blame other people for the deplorable state of things around them.

Thingses.

I passed my test on Sunday. So did Evan. We are both Novice Black now. Whee; welcome to Purgatory, as one of my instructors once referred to it. Now it's a several month challenge to get prepared for our Black belt test coming in February.

I'm going to have to build a usenet server here at work it seems. If I want reliable access, I'm going to have to do it myself. This is annoying. I have had only spotty Usenet access for the last month, and I'm over it. X-privat can't decide whether they want to give access or not it seems. Most days it's all connection refused on 119, other days it works okay. Their comp.* hierarchy is spotty as well, which is my main area of concern along with the Monastery and rasfwr-j. I don't know who x-privat peer with, but their only redeeming feature is being free, and even that's more pain than it's worth at this point (or I could pay to access their other server, but really, why would I do that? I can simply build a local server here, have complete control and just have to deal with getting peering between us and our provider set up). Hey look, I just happen to have this spare Dell PE650 in the rack running FreeBSD 5-STABLE with a spare 80GB SATA drive doing absolutely nothing right now. How ultra convenient.

This morning, I was officially in the 150s when I woke up and weighed myself. Ideally, I can get down to between 150 and 155 and maintain that. So between 5 and 10 more pounds, and I'm done with loss and just watching for gain. It also makes Tae Kwon Do a lot easier to not be carting around all that extra weight. My wife digs it too.

New Orleans. Nothing to say really. The ripple effect from this is going to suck. Hey, maybe the .gov could even step in and stop the gas and oil companies from price gouging the shit out of everyone and driving the price of, well, everything, up even further in the process. Oh wait, that wouldn't fit in with the Bush puppetmaster's overwhelming greed and their plans for grabbing even more for themselves at everyone else's expense. Someday, they'll live in the nicest crackhouses on the block, and blame other people for the deplorable state of things around them.