{"id":284,"date":"2003-11-24T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=284"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"cleaning-after-cargo-r2d2-ll-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/cleaning-after-cargo-r2d2-ll-bean\/","title":{"rendered":"cleaning after Cargo, R2D2, L.L. Bean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of today cleaning and doing laundry (still a load in the washer actually). This is the only downside to having Cargo Kitty over for the weekend %) It&#8217;s ok though, I was able to get lots of cleaning out of the way that I&#8217;d need to do anyway before we move.<\/p>\n<p>I was proof-reading a short english paper for a friend of mine from Finland this afternoon. Well, there is nothing like reading a non-native english speaker&#8217;s english paper to see how querky the english language is. It&#8217;s just funny when he&#8217;s describing the words to me, pulling out his hair because the present tense and the past tense of &#8220;read&#8221; are the same word, and yet they are pronounced differently. English must be difficult to learn. This guy&#8217;s paper was quite good though, I was pretty impressed, he just has trouble with prepositions, which seem to be a stumbling block for many people learning english.<\/p>\n<p><lj-cut><br \/>\nI looked over R2D2 the ircbot&#8217;s script today to try an fix it. Boy did I do a lot of silly things. I started to clean up the script today, putting some subroutines together that were quite foolishly separate, working with all the matches to make sure the way I was comparing things made sense (in some cases I really have no idea what I was doing). I also discovered that since we moved one of the mysql databases off of the computer R2 runs from that his script has actually been broken, if someone used the ~search command he&#8217;d die. Oops. Well good thing no one ever actually used that command. I commented it out for now, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll put it back, seeing as how no one has used it since at least August&#8230; but but but it&#8217;s so neat to say my ircbot has a mysql backend %)<\/p>\n<p>I did some &#8220;window shopping&#8221; (monitor shopping?) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llbean.com\">LLBean.com<\/a> today. I need a coat. I thought about shopping at L.L. Bean because I love that store and I know their quality is exeptional. I looked through many, and I think I might go with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llbean.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/CategoryDisplay?&#038;storeId=1&#038;catalogId=1&#038;langId=-1&#038;categoryId=32992&#038;feat=ssdpb1031-XS\">this one<\/a>, probably with the Mariner color. It&#8217;s funny, while I was growing up I always thought L.L. Bean was a horribly expensive place, but it really is quite reasonable. I guess my mother was cheap with everything. Now while being cheap sometimes is good (soda at a grocery store is just as good as soda at a pizzeria, and half the price), when you&#8217;re talking about clothes you&#8217;ll want to wear for decades being cheap just doesn&#8217;t make sense. Thrifty, fine, cheap, bad.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll make spaghetti for dinner. *wanders off*<\/p>\n<p><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of today cleaning and doing laundry (still a load in the washer actually). This is the only downside to having Cargo Kitty over for the weekend %) It&#8217;s ok though, I was able to get lots of cleaning out of the way that I&#8217;d need to do anyway before we move. 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