Max is sick. Labored breathing, supposedly fluid in the lungs. Mom took him to an Emergency Veterinarian Sunday afternoon. After some medication and whatnot, he's doing better, but he wheezes and is not very active. I think he'll be okay though.
At first though, I was worried. What if he died, you know?
But now I think he'll be okay. We're taking him to the Veterinarian this afternoon for a followup exam.
Well, Dannyland is obviously back online! The hard drive was fried. Ouch! Well, bought a new one. Just well ... didn't have backups, so well ... this web page is starting over then eh? Dave said he'd let me know later today what he could salvage from cache. I'd pretty much written off but, well ...
Got a great deal on the hard drive. Well, not a great deal, but an excellent price. Something tells me there's a difference. 3.2G for $309! I also bought a 16M SIMM. I saved $20 on the disk by not getting a box. Who needs a box? Well, I think I had forsaken manuals and the like as well, but who needs 'em?
The drive it is replacing is less than a year old. Time to contact Western Digital about some bad Caviar!
Dannyman's tip of the day:
* 0 * * * is not as cool a crontab entry as 0 0 * * * ... I
noticed today that it ran my "daily" crontab sixty times between
midnight and one. Ooops! Well, now that's fixed!
It's chilly here. My hands are cold, fingers really. No fun typing under such conditions, I think I may close for now.
Max seems to be doing better. We took him to the Vet for a follow-on exam. Pretty much it seems he over-exerted his aging heart. He seems better now too. He'll be on Lasix and antibiotics a while, but he'll be okay otherwise. He even ran some today, to and from the car.
Mom bought a new hard drive. Same kind I got. I drove the car down to Micro Center. I really like the place. She bought some software too. I'll be installing Windows95 on a system for my first time when I get home!
It was cool coz they had FreeBSD there too as well. Speaking of FreeBSD, Dan called earlier and said he's comin' down to the city tomorrow. We might hang out. He's Dan. He's pretty cool. He lives in Allen. "Goth Dan."
A story idea flitted through the ol' brain today, seems a bit far-fetched though, but basically SciFi ... a guy is on the Mars mission, and some shit happens, he starts to go nutty, eventually kills the crew in stasis and stuff. You see obvious influence there from, say 2001 and others eh? Yeah, I dunno, too obvious of Genre, and no talking spoons.
I'm not very articulate today eh? No. My pants have this huge-ass hole in the crotch. Bah! Somebody gonna ask and I wanna tell 'em a dog bit me. Hell.
Mom said she'd fix 'm up. More power to her. I'll leave them by her sewing thing tomorrow. Tomorrow the stove should be coming AM. I'll probably sleep again on the cough tonight, keep an eye on Max and be on hand for the stove.
Mom also bought a new modem. I'm hungry. Juan's donuts are tempting me quite sorely. Charlie stole two previously. Maybe I shall steel but one. Hmmm? Maybe.
Aint it purty? That's what a few idle hours and a wee bit of Perl know-how can do! I'm a wee bit hungry, I hope Mom has food at home. Maybe I should call her? Ah hell, worse comes to worse I order Pizza to do hardware upgrades by.
Yep, just called mom - no food. That's what happens when you work the late shift. I'm outta here at 10PM ya see ... hunger. And yes I did steal one of Juan's donuts!
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