...and life goes on...

Not too much has been happening lately. Work has been busy; I've spent this week upgrading miscellaneous daemons and services for security reasons, and brought our new backup server online, officially. It's been working well, backing up all the department disks at lightning speed.

The weather has been so hot and muggy outside during the day lately that I just haven't been motivated to do anything outdoors, Vanishing Species or otherwise. I've spent the weekends lazing around at home, going to the mall, and in the case of July 4th weekend, blowing stuff up with friends.

Yup, about $80 worth of fireworks went up in smoke on the 4th. Mostly bottle rockets, firecrackers, and mortars. It's always fun to set off the things yourself; those people who tell you to play it safe and just go watch the professional shows just don't understand the fun of playing with fireworks. Ignore them. }:)

I rearranged my desk at home, and retired the second monitor for now. It was simply getting too cluttered, especially with the HP 1150C multifunction scanner/printer they let me take home from work.