o/` Bel Canto – Mornixuur o/`
Well unfortunately I didnt get to meet escapenguin and Vehicle00 last night. Apparently Vehicle had a work meeting that ended up taking more time tha he expected. Escapenguin wanted to make it, drove into the city, got lost, and by the time he found USP it was raining, he couldnt find a place to park and it was 8:45. I don’t blame him for getting lost though %) This plug meeting was actually the first time Myk and I *didn’t* get lost on our way there. The problem with that part of the city is there are a lot of one way streets, and “slight” turns on roads that break off and don’t have signs… a slight right at the wrong intersection and you’re lost. Even now as I look back at the mapquest directions we have, I notice they are wrong… there is an obvious place that says “take a right” when it should be “take a left” arg! I was disappointed though.
It’s ok, I got to meet Samantha (the woman I’ve been working with for phillychix) and her husband Fred, they seemed like really nice people, I’m really looking forward to the meeting next week. The presentation was also fairly good, I understood it at least %) It was all talking about IT Security in Linux. Before the meeting they had a fairly amusing time trying to log into the computer that they had to use. The meeting place is a University and the computers they run in presentation rooms run windows 2000, the box was rebooted so the presenter got to a login prompt. Now of course this is all posted for the whole room to see and people start suggesting passwords and user names to try to get into this system, imagine that! A whole room of linux geeks stuck at the win2k login prompt %) Anyway, a few minutes later the presenter logs into windows, smiles, then points to the part of the monitor just above the screen and said “hehe, I read the directions” haha!!! And during the question time someone brought up the whole SCO linux thing. A moan erupted from everyone in the room, which was soon replaced with everyone’s “expert” opinion on the whole thing. Ugh.
I was really tired toward the end of the meeting. I guess I was feeling ok, just very tired, maybe it’s better that we didnt meet those guys last night %) So we ended up just going home right after the meeting instead of staying for pizza and beer.
I’m not feeling so great today either, just exhausted for no reason, a little headachey. Maybe it’s because the coffee maker is broken. Come to think of it, yesterday afternoon I was pretty tired too. I went to relax in bed with my book for a while until I started to become afraid I’d fall asleep reading it. So I turned on the tv, nothing was on of course, ended up settling on a movie that was on the Turner Classic Movies channel. Now I’m not a big old movie fan, sure I enjoy them sometimes, but they are usually not my first choice as to films to watch. Why? I don’t know, maybe I just haven’t had enough time to “discover” them. “No Time For Comedy” (1940) was the movie I ended up watching a bit of, and I really enjoyed it! The only actor in it i knew was Jimmy Stewart. There was just something about the movie that struck a chord with me. Nothing really about the people in it, or the plot, I think I just felt like it was so REAL. The people in it acted like real people, the way they interacted with each other was so perfect… I don’t care what the critics said about the movie, I liked it. And you know what? There was no violence, no sex, no special effects. When is the last time I watched and enjoyed a movie without these things? It amazes me that movie makers today believe you must have all these things to produce a successful film. Is that true? Well I’m definately going to start watching more older movies…
I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow morning, ugh… then I need to finish getting all my things arranged for my trip. I wrote out a little budget for my trip so I know how much money to bring… and I need to make up a list of things to pack… bleh. But right now I’m going to go lie down ’cause I don’t feel so great. *wa
nders off*



