Ok, now that I have some more time, I'll give a recap of the holiday weekend.

Thanksgiving day was uneventful, mostly.  It was a typical family gathering at my grandparents' house, where we had turkey and pumpkin pie.  Ok, there was much more than that, but those were the two foods I enjoyed the most.  I didn't line up at 0400 for black friday sales, but I did do a bit of Christmas shopping.  And, since I couldn't resist, I picked up a computer game for myself.

Unfortunately, my web site was down for the holiday weekend due to a power glitch at RPI.  The router for the subnet I'm on had a video card issue ... apparently it became dislodged.  Don't ask me how a power blip does that, but I've heard of stranger things, I guess.

In other news, my workout at the pool today was excellent.  I think I swam more today than I did the last two or three times combined.  Of course, I suppose that's due to the other swimmers constantly racing me in the pool.  I can't resist good competition, sometimes ...

Oh, yeah, apparently they aired that episode of Jeopardy today where Ken Jennings got booted.  I'm bummed out, since I totally missed it.  Does anyone have a torrent?

After about a week of downtime, prolixium.com lives again!  There were some, erm, power issues and, erm, other issues between starfire and RPI's network.  But, everything is working fine again.

I'll post more stuff when I get the time.

I thought time flew when I was in school, but it's even worse in the working world.  Well, believe it or not, it's Thanksgiving already, and I think I'm still stuck back in early October.  I should start looking for Christmas presents on Friday, along with the rest of the world.

This past weekend I saw Saw and The Polar Express with a couple of friends ... back to back.  They were quite good, in their own ways.  Some of the animation in The Polar Express was excellent, but some of the faces were a bit odd.  Saw was actually quite good, never a dull moment.  It was kinda gory, but that doesn't seem to phase me for some reason.

What else ... oh, I finally got my fonts in Firefox/GTK2/Gnome to look nice.  My Fujisu E-7110 came back on Friday, repaired.  Since I don't have a need for two laptops, I'll probably be selling this on eBay, or something.

Oh, yeah, I think I got DDoS'ed yesterday.  Tons of random ICMP fragments were getting dropped by my firewall.  Can't we all just get along?

I finally got around to seeing The Incredibles this weekend.  Pretty good flic, I'd definitely recommend it.  The only downside were the annoying people sitting in front of us, one of them kept fiddling with a [quite bright] cellphone for a good chunk of the movie.

So, I didn't realize it had been so long since I last swam.  Today I bought a membership at LA Fitness, then took a 50 minute swim, which really hurt.  Looks like I have my work cut out for me.

I miss summer already.  It was around -5°C this morning, and there was frost on my sunglasses, which I stupidly left in the car overnight.  So, when does it start getting warm again?

Also:

ntpd[7804]: time correction of 1043 seconds exceeds sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time.

I think there's something wrong with the clock on my new laptop.  If I could actually have an extra 20-40 minutes per day, that would be neat.

[prox:starfire:17:44:3]% dmesg|grep ^rl0
rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xed002000-0xed0020ff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci1
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:48:54:84:d7:9a
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type c8f6 flags 3 len 3435 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 5845 flags 3 len 40907 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 4ea6 flags 3 len 57294 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 3036 flags 3 len 29281 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type ceae flags 3 len 28448 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 6d03 flags 3 len 2352 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type a633 flags 3 len 7101 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 5431 flags 3 len 6690 > max 1514)
rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type f8a6 flags 3 len 61303 > max 1514)

Friggin' buggy FreeBSD rl driver keeps causing random downtime.  I suppose I should upgrade starfire [this webserver] to 5.3-RELEASE.  Maybe I'd be more inclined if the machine wasn't over 180 miles away.

They're quite addictive!

Not a real exciting day here.  I cleaned the house, washed the cars, and have to do laundry in a few.  I also found time to update the Linux/Netscreen VPN HOWTO.

I think I'm going to be seeing The Incredibles tonight.  That should be fun.

Enjoy the weekend!

So, apparently America has spoken, according to the re-elected President George W. Bush.  I, for one, am happy with the results.  With Bush getting the largest popular vote in the history of the United States, I'm sure the next four years will be beneficial to America, as well as the rest of the world.

What I'm slightly concerned about, is all the negative whining from the individuals who opposed the President in this election.  I've heard a number of people saying they're going to move to Canada, or Europe, or somewhere else rediculous.  I also keep hearing people blame the *evil* Republicans for selectively throwing away ballots, and rigging the election.  Seriously, guys, take a chill pill, and stop being sore losers.

It's bad enough for the left-wingers to constantly make fun of the President, and call all Republicans idiots, retards, etc., but to say the Republicans rigged the election, and denied Democracts the right to vote?  Come on, stop acting like children, and accept defeat.  If the Democrats can get their act together, and offer a candidate in 2008 who doesn't flip-flop on almost every single issue, maybe we'll see the other party in The White House in four years.

Anyway, now I can finally change the poll here.  Hopefully I'll think of something non-political.