My Head Hurts

Date: 2000-06-24 21:15:42

I have this really bad feeling that the C-clamp across my temples has something vaguely to do with the vast quantities of caffeine (usually upwards of two hundred miligrams) I consume during the median weekday and the zero miligrams of caffeine I have consumed in the past twenty-four hours. This suggests, of course, that I am physically addicted to caffeine. Oops. Not something I'm happy to consider, especially when I'm heading off for a three-and-a-half week vacation in two days (regardless of what the countdown on the bottom of this changelog entry reads; I set it when the departure date was (to the best of my knowledge, anyway) a day later than it is now), where my potential for caffeine injestion will be minimal, mostly because I'll be in the presence of my parents most of the time, who don't belive that caffeine or sugar are good things. I think Penguin Caffinated Peppermints will be my best friends.

Yesterday: spent my last day at work before vacation. Biked downtown to wack one of my servers into whack, then finished updating Debian packages and painlessly installed jserv. I have absolutly no clue how it works or even if it's remotly correct yet, but it claims to be running, so I'm happy for now. After work, biked to a ceedee shop (Wherehouse Music on the north side of Arapahoe between Folsom and 28^th) and searched the classical section for a disk containing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Opus 23. Didn't find one, so I settled for a ceedee with two Beethoven piano concertos. Saw a stack of cheeper ceedees and found the concerto I wanted. Broke out the handy-dandy bank account depletion card. Came home and listened to quality classical music. Not quite as cool as being there in person, but still pretty good.

Tomorrow: pack. Not just my stuff to go on vacation, but also (probably) get impressed into packing various other stuff. Need to get everything set up so I can seamlessly use my desired technology. A serial Visor cradle would be great, so I can sync with Yukon, but I'm not sure I want to get one. (I've spent enough money lately.) Maybe I'll get started on this tech syncing thing tonight. It'd be great if I could write changelog entries from my Visor (so far, I'm resisting the urge to name it, but Rubicon is tempting; Willy says "go for it"), especially great if I could tack on the GPS coordinates. Maybe I'll have to settle for current town, or interstate milepost. (That's assuming I could resonabally download them. Hmm. I'm sure I'll think of something. My dad has a Visor and a USB-capable notebook.)

Contest suggestion (not actual proposal; that might come later): some sort of AI competition. Pick a simple game or something (my current guess would be Othello or Reversi, or as known by the gnome-games package, lagno) and allow hackers to submit their AIs and arrange competitions between these AIs and give some sort of prize to the winner. (BTW: my still-running contest is now winnable.)

USA Tour, Florida: 3 Days