I love being busy “doin’ good works” (as Jayne would say) but I also like having time to keep up with the aquarium, visit friends, attend Buddhist meetings and attempt to maintain the garden. Friday, Erci and I visited a new dance studio, the Fred Astaire studio on Lee Highway, and we got an incredibly warm welcome though the traffic was a monster. Part of the traffic snarl was because of exceptionally pretty warm, moist fog in the area.

Saturday we both fought headaches all day, and I made the run up to the La Belle Compagnie meeting at Rob and Sam’s home where they fed us royally and living history planning was done. This morning we finally got to a Soka Gakkai Buddhist discussion meeting and did some much needed grocery shopping together for the first time in ages, then I did some gardening while she got her nails done.

Erci has finished her business law class and has only two more 6 week classes to finish her MBA, and I finally see light at the end of the long dark tunnel of MBA widower status… yippea!!! I think I will have to take her on a drunken, debauched, dance cruise someplace warm where you can wear almost nothing and drinks have little umbrellas in them… anyone want to come along?

The cats have been very cute and affectionate lately, it is very nice. There is the smell of beef stew permeating the house, and excellent music on the stereo (“Aux Cyclades ƒlectronique” by Bertrand Burgalat) and life is very, very good. I am very grateful.

Also got to use the rpcinfo, fuser, umount, killall, and mount commands again for the first time in nearly a decade… I love me some UNIX-foo, but NFS still sucks (though it fills the void).

Built more Xen virtualized opensuse 11 servers on top of opensuse 11 on HP Blade servers; fun, fun, fun.
Did I mention how much I loath MSIE and HP for making certain iLO features only work in MSIE? At least that part is short and most of the work can be done from command line and Firefox.