One more post...	Sat Sep 21 00:06:29 CDT 2002
Ok, I think I got XMMS to post my music of choice to the news page. So now I can just hit the script, and it auto posts my music of choice. At least according to XMMS. I wonder how many fubared Mp3's I have. ;) Mood: Proud Music of the Day:

New journalism script

Fri Sep 20 23:51:18 CDT 2002

As you may have noticed, I've been playing with adding features to my little shell script. Well, can't let JiveLournal err....Live Journal have all the fun ;) So far I have the mood and music thing, like that was hard. I want to find a way to have the script pull what i'm listening to from XMMS for me automagickally, and well mood is mood. ;) Not sure what else I'll do, but when I get it all working I'll let youse guys know ;)

Mood: Sleepy, but good.

Music of the Day: Crimson Glory - Touch the Sun

On the 'net again.

Fri Sep 20 23:23:09 CDT 2002

No, I don't have broadband yet, though I'm working on it. Nope, but I am on the net and using Linux. I borrowed an external 56k US Robotics modem from The Grim Squeaker and got it running after some hair pulling and crying. So now my workstation can dial up and connect. Happy fox. I can SCP stuff, download using tools I'm used to, and I can use my bookmarks again. :) So, off to finish downloads. :)

Mood: Pretty Good

Music of the Day: Crimson Glory - New World Machine

A new (sorta) kitty

Tue Sep 17 23:59:06 CDT 2002

Well, today was a rather amusing day for us at Chez Snowfox. Me and Rhiannon were talking about what to do with the Kitten. We'd pretty much given up hope that we'd find someone to take him off our hands. Rhiannon pointed out that he seemed rather fond of my desk, my computers (I've now pried him out of my file server twice now), and me in general. So we're keeping him, Rhiannon now offically only has four cats, I now have 3, and the Kitten has gotten named, at least by me (if Rhiannon can call him anything but Kitten, I'll be shocked.)

As a Heinlein and Spider fan, a orange kitty lends itself to one name. Pixel (at least as I remember, Pixel in the books was orange). But unlike his predecessors, the Cat who Walks though Walls and the Cat who Walks though Windshields, this Pixel is the Cat who Walks though Computer Monitors. He has a weird habit of hiding behind my two monitors, and reaching out to tap me on the hand from behind them. It looks vaguely silly to me. :)

So say hi to Pixel, the latest of the Pflugerville Pfeline Pfederation

Vulpine & Pixel, who says *blert*

ARGH !!!!

Tue Sep 17 01:01:09 CDT 2002

Ok boys and girls, Vulpine's lesson of the day. When your removing all the files from dir /home/vulpine/temp/whatever the syntax for the command is NOT!!! 'rm -rf * ~/temp/whatever/' *whimper* I really only lost about 3 gigs of stuff, of course, it was the 3 gigs that was not backed up. *whimper* Mostly pics and some multimedia files. Nothing too irreplaceable, just a PITA to fix. So, what do I do...besides cry...write more backup scripts. *sigh* I will not let this get me down. Well, time to scour the stashed disks and drives and cds, see what I can recover. *crosses toes*

Job Goodness and Another Austin Report.

Wed Sep 11 15:53:20 CDT 2002

Well, after a few weeks of hunting, while moving, unpacking, and settling, I've found a job. It's not a techie job, I'll be doing sales for Dell. Back to square one for me...for those who don't know, I started working in tech by being a salesweasel for Onramp Technologies. I don't think this will be my permenent career, but it pays the bills, and makes a nice break from level one tech support. At least I hope so. ;)

Well, after getting hired, I had to go into Austin proper for a pee-test. No sweat. From there, I go downtown to return a movie to what is probably one of the coolest video stores I've ever been in. It's a place called Vulcan Video. Now these guys are good, they have a huge collection of bad B movies, foreign films, horror flicks, anime, etc... Hell, they have Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town. ;) (IMDB entry when I have internet access). Well, this is down near the UT campus, where a mathmatician specializing in non-Eucledian geometry laid out the street plan. Hell, the street Vulcan is on looks like upside-down '?' or the Blue Oyster Cult symbol ;) So, on my attempt to get back on the highway, I got utterly turned around, and finally ended up on Lamar, aka the road that goes on and on and on... Eventually I hit something I knew, then back to the highway, then home. All I know is Austin does twisted things to my direction sense. I don't know if UT is working on reality-bending hyper particle physics, if the goddess Eris Discordia is living down on Guadalupe street (next to the Scientologists, or that dread C'thulhu is living under Lake Travis...this place is looney. I like it. :)

Austin Update

Sun Sep 1 23:10:23 CDT 2002

Well, I said I'd make an update. Here it is. I left for Austin last Sunday, with cats and ferrets in tow. The cats (Diamond and Trinity) were very upset with the idea of driving, while the ferrets (Winter and Shadow) were mellow and curious about the whole thing. Make good time to Pflugerville, unload the critters and the load of stuff I brought. The ferrets were still mellow, but the cats were uber-freaked by the other cats (Rhiannon has 5 of her own), humans, and the other roomies' dog. Diamond hid under a table in the living room, and Trinity stayed in the cat carrier for hours, til we put her in the bathroom alone. Eventually, after some unpacking, and some general twitching, we went to bed.

The next day was errand day, running around getting new keys made, helping new roomie #2 get her license. Not much done, mostly getting ready for Tuesday aka Moving day. Tuesday rolls around, I go to the U Haul place, pick up my nice huge truck. Fill out the 30' of paperwork, and off I go to Arlington. Long slow drive, but not too bad...found good radio stations on the way. Get to Arlington, call Amythest, who's offered to help...along with one of her students. She gets there in a while, helps me finish packing. Anon (her student) shows up a few hours later, and we load the truck. We get done about 10:30 or so, then we drive to Amythest's place, to drop off some of the stuff she snagged. Get back on the road around 11:30. Call Rhiannon to say I'm going to be late, and ack...phone isn't working. Haul major buttock down to Austin, and just on the outskirts of Pflugerville my truck starts acting up, hitching and running funny. I get into our neighborhood, and the truck dies about half a block from the house. *grumble* It's acting like it ran out of gas...err diesel. Walk down to the house, come on in, procede to get a loud "Where were you !!!!????!!!!" from Rhiannon. *grin* What can I say, she worries. Tell her the story, go to bed...eventually get some sleep.

The next day, I call U Haul's support line about the dead truck. After a telling the same story over and over again to different techs, they send a local mechanic over to bring a jerry can for the truck. He comes over, fills it up some. Try to go, no movement. Mechanic checks the trans mission and fills it up with fluid. The same. He thinks the transmission is hosed. He finally jury-rigs it up and inches it down to the Chez Snow Fox. We unload the truck, my tons of books and computers cause a few comments. Seems my geekdom is new and odd to people ;) Get dinner from the world's slowest Kentucky Fried Chicken. Pass out early.

Now it's Thursday, call U Haul again to get them to tow the truck away. Start the fun of unpacking, get most of the books put up in a few hours. Give Rhiannon a small heartattack when she gets home. All the vanished boxes. ;) Friday is a fairly lazy day, have lunch with some friends (one local, one from out of town). Go to dinner with the out of town friend. Come home, pass out. ;) (see a pattern here ?) Saturday, we work on Rhiannon's costume for a party next week, come home...I work on computers, getting them all setup. Which is pretty much the same thing I did today.

On the computer front, I've whittled down my about of stuff for now. Since I'm on a dialup connection for now, I'm pretty much limiting myself to my main linux box (kallisti), my fileserver (slavegirl) and my laptop (voyeur), along with Rhiannon's windows box (kajira). So only four computers. Now when we get DSL, I'll start running a DNS server again, as well as eventually creating a new Mp3 server (all the mp3s and multimedia and files are on slavegirl. 148 gig of space total). I'm missing alot of little things, like power supplies and cables...but I hope to find them in the next day or two.

So, until I get a modem for kallisti, I'm limited to using kajira for email access via Squirrelmail (a goofy webapp client on my server host). I miss Pine tons. But other than the little problems, I'm doing good. :) Happy happy fox. I'll write more as things come up. :)