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Yes, today was both fun and productive. On the productive side of things, I went to the rental office here and filled out an application for the other apartment I want to move into. It’s a one bedroom unit in the next building over. I got to look around in it today, and it looks pretty nice. Not too big, but I don’t really need a lot of space.

After that, I went to help Dave install a new router at Greenerd Press. That was fairly fun, and productive too. Apparently Greenerd just makes presses, little ones, big ones, all sorts of them. It’s a pretty neat place. The router went in without too much trouble, though it looked like the DSL line went down for a bit in the middle of things, which was very annoying, since I thought the new router was to blame. Everything worked out okay in the end though.

After that, Andrea and I went to try and see a movie again. We decided that there wasn’t much that we really wanted to see, so we figured we’d rent something. A look around Blockbuster’s New Releases section, we decided that there really wasn’t anything we wanted to rent either. So we went to dinner at T Bone’s in Bedford, which was nice. I’d never been there before, and it was tasty food. After that, we wandered back to the apartment, watched an episode of Crossing Jordan that Andrea had missed, but was still on the TiVo, and played a little bit of Super Mario World.

Andrea got sick of SMW pretty quickly, unfortunatly, and proceeded to pack up some of her things around the apartment, then I took her home. Overall, it was a fun evening, not at all weird as the last time Andrea and I spent time together. I still miss her, but it feels like things will work out okay now. She’s been very busy with school this semester, and I think she’s not talking enough time out to have fun.

Oh, speaking of fun, Dave will probably like this, I just played a game of Total Annihilation, on The Pass against the computer, I built 25 Krogoth before I got too bored and destroyed him. Whee!

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Finally did it, finally put the 120GB drive that’s been sitting around the apartment for months into the TiVo. It wasn’t all that hard, pretty easy really. Perhaps the trickiest thing was taking apart my computer to get it done. I had borrowed an SS50 from Dave to use for the upgrade, but it’s BIOS apparently didn’t like booting from the mfstools CD, so that was a no-go. I took some pictures of the upgrade. Not much to look at, but you can see the guts of an AT&T branded Series 2 TiVo if you like that sort of thing. Awww yeah, 197 hours of estimated record time.

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Well, I spent a bit of time today setting up MovableType for my personal journal, importing all my old entries from LiveJournal. I plan to set it up to crosspost into LiveJournal automatically when I post something in MT. It all went pretty well, and you can see my prototype new site here. It’s still a work in progress, so it doesn’t look all that great yet. The new layout makes it more compatible with the Mason autohandler for the main site, so really the entire site will share a common layout, just with bits and pieces overridden for different sections. All the fun of web design for me is making the back end as geeky as possible.

Unfortunatly, in the process of setting that up, it looks like I accidentally deleted all the articles from Chocobo.cx. Luckily I didn’t rebuild, so I should be able to parse the articles out from the individual archives and put them into the import format to restore them. That’ll teach me not to make a backup beforehand.

Other than that, not much is going on. I think I’ve decided on a place to live, but I’m checking out a couple more places this week before I make my final decision. I think I’m going to stay in Manchester, since I kindof like it here, and the good Internet access and open-late pizza places don’t hurt either.

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Not really too much going on at the moment. Yesterday, Mark and I went up to Boltonville again, this time to install some hardware. It went pretty well, the wireless link to the camera is working fine. The voice modem stuff worked okay for voice using my software, or okay for data using mgetty, but I couldn’t get it to do voice and data with my stuff. Modem stuff is annoying.

When I got home after that (2 hour drive up there) I slouched around for a bit, then decided to head over to B&N to find something new to read. I ended up picking up the latest issues of CPU and 2600, and picked up Snow Crash and XML in a Nutshell (first edition, marked down to $10). That should keep me busy for a bit.

That’s about it really. I plan to do some cleaning today, my bathroom is a pit of doom, then I’ll head into Milford to check out some places to live and have dinner at my mom’s house. Should be a relatively quiet day, but productive.

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