Another Word for Nerd

I just spent $97 on a toy lightsaber, and damn is it awesome. Everyone here at the office is playing with it.

update: pictures and a video (DivX). Yes, I have asthma, and the reason I sound like Darth Vader in the video is because I was chasing the cats around the house with the new toy.

I want one of these SO BAD. Unfortunately, they’re $99 locally and I doubt I can get that past the Wife Who Does The Books….

Welcome to White Castle! NOW GET THE HELL OUT

Friday: Arrive at work at 8:30am. Finally leave work at 11:15pm that night. It was the first stage of migrating around 600 machines from NIS name services to LDAP.
Saturday: Get up at 10:30, conference call, and work from home till 8pm, when I had to go to the office to fix a problem (didn’t have the right tools here at the house). Finally got done around 9:15pm.
Sunday: Slept until 10am, got up, conference call, things are going smoothly. Cleaned house, did laundry, changed sheets, changed the cat litter, all that fun stuff. It’s almost 10pm and I’m just *now* starting to relax for the weekend. Oh wait, the weekend’s over!

Yesterday I had to take our smallest cat back to the vet for her followup visit after being spayed. She’s been known to not like being put in a cat carrier, so on the way home I stopped by Berings, my favorite hardware store, and picked up a pair of leather work gloves. Got home, spent half an hour chasing said cat around the house, finally got hold of her (being VERY glad I had the gloves), and put her in the cat carrier.

As I took the gloves off, I noticed that my left index finger was bleeding profusely. A closer look revealed that she’d bitten through the glove and given me a pretty good puncture wound. I cleaned up and washed it off, and took her to the vet. When I walked in, they said “hey, you’re bleeding” - and I discovered that she’d gotten me pretty good on the underside of my right arm as well. I guess all the adrenaline from chasing her around the house kept me from feeling it. Ten minutes later, I’d scrubbed up with alcohol wipes and antibacterial soap, she was given a clean bill of health, and I brought her home.

Amy suggested that I go to the doctor today for antibiotics, due to the fact that cat bites and scratches can turn into nasty infected wounds. The doctor not only gave me a tetanus shot, but gave me TWO different prescriptions for antibiotics.

Total cost to get kitten spayed: $125
Total cost of the followup visit: $70 (gloves, doctor’s copay, antibiotic prescription)

Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10.1    mrbill  May. 06, 2005
SunOS Internal Development:  root 2005-05-06 [mrbill]
bfu'ed from /opensolaris/build/archives/sparc/nightly on 2005-05-09
Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10.1    snv_10  October 2007

This time it was snv_13 compiling itself.

Took an hour and 13 minutes longer than Solaris Express 4/05 did, for some reason.

Got up around 11am, deposited two checks at the bank (one of which was unexpected, and bigger than I thought it would be)..

Picked up a book from Borders that I ordered last Saturday, then read most of it while I got an oil change and inspection done on my truck.

Went by the lightbulb shop on Westheimer, and picked up a pair of full-spectrum compact flourescent bulbs. I put one of them in the fixture in my office, and the other in my new desk lamp. Picked up an inhaler refill and cokes and snacks at Walgreens, then later went to Kroger for cleaning supplies (the sink in the bathroom finally drains normally!). Dinner was a corndog from Sonic.

Tomorrow I have to clean house and do lots of laundry.

root@bradford:/> uname -a
SunOS bradford 5.10.1 build sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60

root@bradford:/> cat /etc/motd
Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10.1    build   May. 06, 2005
SunOS Internal Development:  root 2005-05-06 [build]
bfu'ed from /opensolaris/build/archives/sparc/nightly on 2005-05-06
Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10.1    snv_10  October 2007

I only borked one thing during the build/install, but it was easy enough to fix by booting to single-user mode off a CD-ROM and editing files by hand.

==== Nightly distributed build completed: Fri May  6 14:03:29 CDT 2005 ====
==== Total build time ====
real    4:00:59

This is on an Ultra 60 with dual 450Mhz CPUs and 2G of RAM. Base OS is Solaris Express 4/05.