everburning

Well, I finished up my last too presentations (one in Toronto and one in Montreal) earlier this week and I'm now on vacation. I had a hell of a time getting back from Montreal. Got a call from my boss at about 4pm telling me my 6pm flight had been canceled. Ok, fine, I was already on my way to the airport (I had actually fell asleep in the taxi as we drove to the airport, heh). I get there and manage to get on an earlier 5.30 flight. Which was then delayed till 6.15, then 6.30 then 6.45. We took off around 6.45 flew to Toronto and ended up burning about 30 minutes in the air waiting to land.

After landing the airport was under 'Red Alert' which means they can't allow any ground crew on the tarmac because of lightening (you know, large metallic airplanes, lightening, tiny people, understandable). So we sit there and get told it'll be 30 minutes, then get told it'll be 30 minutes, then get told we can't be told how long it will be as they don't know. Then get told it'll be 30 minutes, etc. After about 2.5 hrs we managed to get to the terminal and unloaded. So, my 1.5 hr flight ended up involving sitting on an airplane for about 4 hrs.

Was a long time, but I didn't really care as I just sat there and read my book. Was a bit hard on the knees, cramped into the tiny seats, but I'll survive.

Anyway, I'm back in Toronto now. With my presentations done I can back up my laptop and get Solaris 10 6/06 installed and start playing around with ZFS again, should be fun.

Not quite sure what I'm going to do on my vacation at this point (I'm off for five days). Probably heading up to Owen Sound on Saturday to visit some friends and quite possibly to Brampton on Friday to visit Stacys father and brother. Might try to fit in some Ewl programming, if I can get back into the grove. Don't really feel like playing warcraft at the moment. I booted it up, walked about 50 paces, turned around, walked back and logged off, heh. (I am in the processing of installing it in the Powerbook, just in case, heh).

Maybe I'll wander over to chapters to read for a while (although as I'm typing this it's just started to piss down rain and I can hear thunder in the background) so, maybe not.

Or, maybe that's just my drive to work on enlightenment stuff. I've been hit by a bit of a coding funk in relation to enlightenment lately. Just don't have any drive to work on code or deal with people. Doesn't seem worth it at the moment. Always seems like the negative response out-weights the positive.

I've been doing a bit of fiddling with Rails again, although I've run into a strange bug where using sqlite3 is giving my row an id of 1 while rails is giving it an id of 0 so when I save an image using that id it's numbered wrong. Hopefully it's just a sqlite3 thing and if I switch to MySQL it'll work itself out.

I bought Stacy a new MacBook and inherited her powerbook. She likes the smaller size and the keyboard on the macbook a lot better. I'm loving the 15″ powerbook. It's quickly becoming my machine of choice. Using Textmate and quick silver make programming a breeze. I'm just learning Textmate so I know I'm still doing a lot of stuff the dumb way, but event still, it's swanky.

In a related operating system based note, Solaris 10 6/06 was released to day so I can't wait to get my sweaty hands on that one and stick it on the work laptop. Tho, I have to wait until at least Thursday as I have to do some presentations off of it in the interm, but, mmmmmm, zfs, yum

Other then that, I've been doing some traveling for work, playing World of Warcraft and reading. My readings been going in cycles lately. I'll pick up a book and either get sucked in or get stuck. If I get stuck I sit with that book for a month or so without reading a page until I drop it for another one. (Or, if I'm lucky I'll drop it right away and switch to a new one.) Maybe I'll use some of my e-free time to catch up on reading. (Heh, probably I'll just play Warcraft). But then, I'm getting to about the point where I get tired of Warcraft as well. I have yet to get a character over 30, my current high being this run to 28. I'm starting to get tried of the 'kill 2million monsters to get 8 pieces of horn' type quests where you just kill the same shit again, and again, and again, and again. We'll see how long it lasts.

Stacy's put up the next piece of 'Night in the Sun' over at perplexity.org which has served as a good diversion. Good reading, I can't wait for the next chapter. Shaping up to be a good story.

Anyway, that's enough for now, I may post some stuff on the books I've read recently (or am currently reading) we'll see how it all goes. (Or, I may end up moving this blog if I ever get the new everburning finished.)