Thursday, May 11, 2000

Just to spite me (well, maybe not...) geocities took its user pages offline just when I wanted to get Andy's latest version of acpid so that I could work on it. This persisted well into the afternoon (my time; well into the early morning their time).

So Kim and I took this morning to go in and run a few errands. Unfortunately, the shoe store did not have the shoes that we wanted to get for my mother, but we did get Kim another pair of sandals. Then we went to climb the Dom tower, but found that it was closed until the middle of the afternoon because something special was going on in the tower during the morning and early afternoon. So we just gave up and came back to campus.

Eventually, Geocities put the user pages back up and I was able to download the new acpid. Now I'll get to play with the AML debugger.

I have the window wide open and I'm letting the breeze flow through. The weather is beautiful again today; sunny, a few light cirrus clouds, light breeze, comfortable temperature. The students are sunbathing in droves, and the cafeterias have wheeled many of their trash bins outside because so many of the students have carried their meals outside to eat.

Got tired of my simplistic charge metering in rp3 and decided to spend some time making it better so that I have half a clue how much money I am spending on the phone.

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Indian food on the Oude Gracht for dinner. Ice cream for supper. We aren't sure if bosberrien is raspberry or something else, but it tastes good.

The large children's party in a boat that went by as we were having supper was slightly loud and clearly excited, but far better-behaved than the university students, who for the third day in a row are dropping large quantities of water on fellow students.