Lots of stuffages and stuff
Well, let’s see. Last Friday was Andrea’s birthday. I took the day off from work to hang out with her. We went and got her new driver’s license, and got lunch, and drove around Manchester for most of the day. I got to see all the schools she went to, and where she used to live, and where her grandparents used to live. It was kindof odd for me, seeing all these things so close together. In order to visit the same sights for me, you’d have to travel to Mass., Georgia, New Hampshire, Ohio, and part of England. It must be odd spending your whole life in one place. Weirdness. We also went and saw Domestic Disturbance, which was an okay movie, nothing terribly good, but nothing terrible bad either. We had dinner with her parents and grandparents at a semi-fancy place in Manchester, which was tasty, and I ate too much. Then we just spent the evening hanging out at her house.
Saturday, I went to game night with jtn and Derrick, as usual. It went well.
Sunday, I had to get some software ready for a demo for Monday. We’re trying to get a voice modem to work under NetBSD to be able to checkup on software status by calling the computer, but it isn’t working out to well. I managed to get call-out working on Sunday, but I still can’t get it to answer calls correctly. I’ve been working on it all week, and I’ve finally decided it will be easier to write some custom software than to try and make vgetty work right. Kindof interesting work, but fairly frustrating too.
Nothing terribly notable for the week, been spending more time with Andrea, which is good. I hope to get my custom vgetty solution, which I call sgetty, working soon. I’m getting ready to buy a new computer for myself, which will be nice. I won’t be the slowest machine at LAN parties anymore. yay!
Also, I’m probably going to end up buying a NeXT station from kancer. I think I’ll probably use it as an MP3 player and terminal box, as something that runs quieter than my main PC. It should be neat.
