OK, 3 weeks have passed. It’s been rather busy. Weekend in Cleveland, work, work, work.
The recap: went to my 25th HS reunion in Cleveland, I had to reschedule my flight because of weather, pulled an all nighter Saturday to make a 7 AM flight, meetings, Matt spent the next weekend in the hospital with gastroenteritis-same as last year, but this time he got misdiagnosed with pneumonia, sent to CHOC at Mission, where they gave him IV fluids. We should’ve done that last year…so we switched pediatricians. <sigh> Worked on all the reunion pictures-look here. There was a landslide in Laguna Beach. Made the 25th reunion page flash new pictures on a mouse over-pretty cool. Journey school had an open house-Matt got in!
I have a huge backlog of news topics-so I’ll try to keep it short.
Apache’s doing a j2ee server-this is great-open source is taking over. IBM lays off 10,000, GM lays off 25K-costcutting from the giants. North Korean nukes are here-way fun-then we invade Iran. Bush visits Russia-and makes pointless points. Torture and murder aren’t prosecuted-if you’re a soldier in Iraq. More ammo against homosexuality being a choice-gay men respond to male smell like women do. United defaulted on pensions-and we get to pay for it-woo hoo-and other pensioners get $47. Star Wars Episode 3 is out-big bank, PG13 for Darth Vader’s face melting. Paula Abdul had sex with a contestant-isn’t that conflict of interest? and who really cares? More proof that the world is ending-Maxim’s hottest women <yawn> Newsweek printed an example of Koran abuse, riots ensued, the White House yelled, Newsweek retracted, but it turned out that there were at least five examples of it-the one Newsweek used was by an inmate-oops. Pictures of Saddam in underwear-deeply insulting to Arabs, a violation of protocol-the White House doesn’t care. Laura Bush got shoved around and yelled at in Jerusalem-is this surprising? The nuclear option got tabled and the Dems caved on 3 of the worst nominees <sigh> Apple is switching to Intel chips-this may mean that OSX will be eventually runnable on PC’s-YAY-but it may take awhile-Apple likes making hardware-but the underlying OS (Darwin) is already there-I had it running on one of my servers awhile ago, but it doesn’t do much so I bagged it-maybe next time… A White House staffer edited docs about global warming to take out links to big oil-why is this not surprising??? That’s it-a big quickie of all the topics I had piled up.
Here’s the software I’ve downloaded: another update to Firefox-they find a bug, fix it, put out an update. A cool utility called Xpandesk that puts multiple desktops in Windows-it’s nice, but Firefox has some issues with it. An old copy of Lotus Agenda-just for archival purposes. Same thing with Ecco Pro… A new version of Eudora-maybe it’ll work with Exchange & Hotmail… Lomboz, PollinateIBM Monitoring and Metadot.
On to the reunion-it was bizarre-not much has changed-the real estate is so cheap. I flew in Thursday, had a nice pastrami sandwich at Corky and Lenny’s. Up early, off to US, Roger Coy was there, the class of ’55 gave $1.5 million for international studies, chat. Off to lower school, chatted with the nurse, ate lunch, did an indoor kite demo. Back to upper school, flew indoors, no one showed up. Baseball game & party, more chatting and pictures, a corned beef sandwich at Corky & Lenny’s. Up to fields, softball, more chats, more pictures, off to Eisele’s house, same thing, off to Laurel, same thing, off to Tavern Club, same thing, Eisele’s again, there ’til 3AM. I stayed up because I had a 7 AM flight, got on the flight, slept. An unbelievably fast weekend. I didn’t get to drive around, but I did take pictures of some houses for sale on the street I grew up on.