Crazy year
So the year that is 2008 is basically half over. I will be 27 in a bit more than 3 months and I think I am finally starting to almost feel like an adult. The year has had its ups and downs, with the adjustment to living in a new place alone and the stress of the US housing crisis. I have recovered about 1/2 of what it cost me to keep the house, which isn’t optimal but it is a hell of a lot better than before when I almost hit $0 savings for the first time in 4 years.
Living alone is a wonderful thing, not that I didn’t enjoy living with a roommate and the girlfriend but it is certainly more limiting. I am pretty well settled at this point and it seems almost like it has always been this way.
I have about a month before I go camping for a week at The Pennsic War in Pennsylvania. I am looking forward to a week away from everything. No technology, no cellphones, nothing except a few thousand crazies in the woods with swords, women, and liquor. Seems like a pretty good way to unwind. After that I will be attending PAX ‘08 in Seattle, WA. For my birthday I’m going to go stay with a friend in San Francisco, CA and hopefully catch SOMETHING at The DNA Lounge.
And to wrap 2008 up, I am going to visit a friend in Edinburgh, Scotland then hop down to London (England) to hang out, hit some pubs and see Shpongle.
Next year looks almost as crazy, with my buddy getting married and having a wedding in China, and my little sister being engaged and having a wedding in Australia! I am going to turn into a little world traveler. I hope to see Japan in 2010 as well! The thought of climbing Mt. Fuji (富士山) amuses me to no end.
If that isn’t enough to do, the new Top Gear, Doctor Who and Formula 1 seasons have all started. And I’m playing Metal Gear Solid 4, which in spite of the fact that I didn’t play any of the other games I enjoy quite a lot and am almost done with it
Off to watch Top Gear Ep 2.
Baseball
The boss suprised the team today at our weekly meeting with an invitation to a Red Wings baseball game. There happened to be a game this afternoon and I work a few hundred feet from “Frontier Field,” the stadium that my employer is a title sponsor for and home of the Rochester Red Wings. I think I’m starting to get this baseball thing a little bit. It is an interesting game, and the more I watch it the more I start to enjoy seeing it. It was also nice to get out with the team and enjoy an afternoon just hanging out and relieving some of the stress that has built up after the craziness of the last few weeks (months).
I did however forget that I was Irish again. I am sunburned something fierce.
BlackBerry reboot loop :(
So last night I went and cleaned a bunch of stuff off the crackberry, like midpssh, which the 7100t is too slow to really use, and a few advanced themes (like the Dimension Zen theme) which were also slow on the 7100t. I rebooted to finish the removal and the crackberry went into a reboot loop. Terrified that I had hosed the system up big-time I tried to recover it using the awesome howto on crackberry.com (http://crackberry.com/blackberry-101-lecture-12-how-reload-operating-system-nuked-blackberry). Unfortunately vmware-player on linux takes too long to detect the USB device that I couldn’t interrupt the boot process and re-flash the device. Thankfully vmware on the Mac was quick enough to blow the OS back on.
Now to restore all my settings and themes…
Roadrunner and IPv6?
So I was at my buddy’s house and he has Roadrunner hooked up to an Apple Airport Extreme and I just noticed that my last login to my colocated server at the Frontier CyberCenter was from a IPv6 IP. The EUI-64 part matches my laptop’s MAC address. The prefix isn’t familiar to me. It was: 2002:4a4a:ca8b:0:213:2ff:feba:83cc
Is Roadrunner quietly rolling out IPv6? It would explain why my ssh(1) connections were flaky.
Edit:
Screenshot ftw.