Weekend Update

Not quote sure where the weekend went:

Friday

• Spent the afternoon getting Firefox and Thunderbird installed on Margie’s new machine. Actually, the installation was trivial. The transfer of data from the old machine — especially the mail — was a lot more problematic. Here’s a clue for the Mozilla folks: people migrate machine — there should be a trivially difficult process for allowing this to happen. Instead, I had to do various web searches, copy hidden directories over, and pound on the keyboard a lot to get Margie’s new machine to see the old mail. (Not that OE or other programs are necessarily better, but this is a place where Mozilla’s open source origins really show through.)

• Ran errands. Was reminded by the temps that, yes, it is still the dead of winter here, even if most of the time it doesn’t seem that way.

• I went over to Doyce’s to watch Sin City with him and Stan and Ann (who’s up from Mexico). Fun movie.

Saturday

• Ran some errands.

• Got haircuts. First “pro” haircut I’ve gotten in a number of years. The stylist was a bit nonplussed that all I wanted was a couple of swipes from the electric clippers. I was nonplussed to be confronted with a mirror held to the back of my head. I guess it worked out even.

• Played CoV with Margie.

Sunday

• Raced home after church (grabbing a bite at Starbucks) to get the house in condition for folks to come over.

• Folks came over — Stan, Ann, Doyce (with Kaylee), Randy — for the general Jan-Feb Birthdays. Ate much food, talked much talk, played Scattergories, watched Kung Fu Hustle (hilarious). Got some fun books.

• Broke up early evening. Cleaned up. Played CoV with Margie.

• Kitten started showing signs of an ear infection mid-afternoon, which was a bummer, since it meant she had to skip the birthday party at Monkey Bizness she was supposed to go to, as well as Margie having to get up multiple times overnight for her.

Could have used another day or two in there.