October is here. Woo hoo-at least it ends with Samhain…that’s something. We’re planning to do a thing at the Circle Supper…Not much else going on.
The last week: we saw “Ladder 49” on Friday, OK, but a bit cliched. The subwoofers got a good workout, though. Erika went to a conference at UCLA Sat., we went to the cube, but it closed early, so we went for ice cream at the Spectrum. Sunday was church, we took a chick from one of Erika’s groups, had lunch at the Spectrum, and napped. The week has been normal-not much to say-working on the QC audit writeup, starting in on a GLBT church questionnaire.
So, the first set of “debates” is over. What did we learn? Chimpy is pretty smirky, and has trouble finding the right words-“those folks” indeed! Kerry did pretty well, Edwards did pretty well, Cheney is pretty snarly. We’ll see if these mean anything-I have seen a bit of a bump in the vote predictor, but not enough to make Kerry president. Domestic policy is next on the plate, and Bush is really vulnerable there. I filled out the sample ballot-the 3 strikes and casino initiatives forced me to read the actual text of the legislation. ack. Here’s a good way to pick out people when there’s no party affiliation and no bio: first pick women, then the non-incumbent, then the one with the most liberal-type job.
Mount St. Helens is acting up, and I have a link to a webcam-click here. This could take awhile to turn into something interesting. Right now it’s just foggy, but the cam hasn’t updated since 11 (it’s 1 now)-the webmaster just said that there’s a connection failure…
I picked up FireFox yesterday-just don’t trust aieeee-M$ isn’t updating it for non-XP users anymore. We’ll see how long that lasts… I got a PHP book out of the libe-I’ve read Python, Perl and now PHP. Perl looks like the odd man out here… Apache just picked up Agila, a BPM server engine from Cloudscape. Open source is just getting better and better. You can do anything you want with free software (except get support-you have to go to Usenet for that).