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I've got some shopping to do, then a movie (Curious George) with my daughter, and maybe poker tonight if I'm feeling up to it. I'm pretty beat, though, so I may just stay in. I like staying in sometimes!
This afternoon a friend and I are spending a few hours playing recent CD purchases and talking about music and movies, which is something I always look forward to. And then tonight I'm watching a double feature of two recent Tivoed moives - the Big Gun Down and Picture of Dorian Gray. There will most likely be a few beers involved.
I already did the grocery shopping... But the house is a mess, so I guess I'll just be cleaning up - in between computer and tv.
I could go out, and maybe even should go out, since it's the end of the carnival season here this weekend, and very festive - but I don't feel like eating in a restaurant or drinking, and I can hear the musicians from right where I am. I will definitely nap (got up at 4 am this morning, for no apparent reason).
Well I've already done some food shopping, had some lunch, watched some Seinfeld, and now Mrs Geezer has a horror film on (called Pity if anyone is interested). A bit later on we'll go out to the local pubs and may or may not meet up with some friends.
Compiling rockbox for my iPod.
Oooh interesting, I didn't know it worked on iPods. I have an two Archos Jukeboxes with Rockbox on them.
I have an two Archos Jukeboxes with Rockbox on them.
Then you've been using a little bit of my code: to my surprise, when I looked at the source today, I saw that code I'd contributed in mid-2003 is still in the build.
(After my Archos broke in 2003, and http://newmp3technology.com took my $100 and didn't make the repairs they said they had, I stopped contributing, because, well, I had nothing to test against.)
Ok, well, not great surprise: the code was specifically written to be easily extensible, and had in fact been extended.
(For those who care about the details: my code established a specific data structure (a C struct) and an array of those structs it iterated over and applied to input data; additional functionality could be added by adding additional specialized instances of the struct to the array. My code also called, if it wasn't null, a pointer to function in each instance of the struct, to allow further code specialization.)
To Do (Saturday)
* Get parts for sliding table for the now-rebuilt table saw
* Go to Old Town to:
--- look for cheap dado blade
--- visit Fran at Eartha Kitty's
--- see Jon at the Radio Museum and maybe get replacement knobs for antique AM/FM radio
* EBay stuff for light show projectors
* Put together temporary base for table saw so I can make the permananent base for the table saw.
* Go to celebratory Russian supper with my sister (I helped Irina kick ass in an administrative hearing on her unemployment.) Eat food drink toasts.
* Recover from supper / nap / read / be a matress for the cats.
* Watch old Crime Story episodes.
* Go to bed.
Ma'am! Ma'am! Now, I want you to dip your iPod in your OJ.... JUST DO IT, MA'AM! Ok, now press the start button- now see how the screen is in color now? You shouldn't care that it's only orange, just be glad you have one at all biyatch!
Lots of cleaning. I got this 'spring cleaning' bug and I can't shake it. I'll go to the nursery for plants (hanging & window box varieties) and leave off some more clothes at Goodwill. I need a lamp shade, so there's that, and to mail some presents I promised people ten million years back. Write a letter to my grandmother. Watch DVDs that just came in the mail. Maybe go out for a beer or try to get a rise out of some folks in IRC.
Finish songs
Type out lyrics and print them in large font
Purchase backup strings and picks
Pack for trip to Connecticut
Get in a run if possible
Go to the grand re-opening of the Pearl with the arts & culture posse
Go to the radio station fundraiser dance (these should be good house-party, jump-blues bands, so I'm hoping to get my swing dance on if anyone there has the skillz).
I've already written my music column for this week.
Need to study for the Spanish test on Monday.
Have lunch with the grandparents. (Maybe. I'm still kind of recovering from PBR-fest last night.)
Study some more.
Watch a Netflixed movie.
Maybe head to D.C. for some girls' night out.
Seriously, today I took my dog to the vet for some X-rays (he has a slight heart murmur and they took them to see what could be causing it. The Xrays came out well.), now I'm here wasting time. I should do some laundry today.
This evening I'm doing a Jaycee thing.
Previously:
Sleep in.
Vaguely wake up at around 9:40 am.
Listen to the rest of Car Talk and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
Handwash red slinky underwear worn last weekend.
Remember potentially useful sex toy in sex toy drawer.
Pull everything out of sex toy drawer wondering what the hell is in there anyway.
Wash off sex toys that have gotten dusty over the years and/or have gotten purple feathers on them.
Throw away the rest of the purple feathers.
Untangle chains.
Throw away expired condoms.
Replace batteries.
Throw away things that don't work anymore, even with new batteries.
Exhausted, go back to sleep.
Wake up around 1:20 p.m.
Shower and dress.
Check Metachat.
Upcoming:
Eat breakfast at all-day breakfast place.
Go to Storables to buy something to keep sex toys in.
Buy more condoms.
Return CDs to library and pick up more CDs at library.
Watch TiVo'ed olympics.
Nap.
Visit with best friend, maybe?
I wanted to get some cleaning up in, but obviously with a schedule like that, it's not going to fit.