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Figured out what was wrong with my iTunes server; turns out that daapd-0.2.4a crashes intermittently, but 0.2.3d works just fine -- it relies on a lot more libraries, some of which aren't packaged for Debian (yes, Virginia, there are such things!), but it behaves. And there's something kind of neat about having 43.5 days of music to listen to.

Finals are done. I have grading I need to do tonight, though, and a few assignments left to finish. There went my plans to actually show up at work regularly this week.

I'd like it very much if it would hurry up and be next Tuesday, but I have a lot of packing to do before then. semanticdm05 and I have a ton of things to take to Goodwill, and eventually I'm going to have to go on a huge paper-excavation expedition through this house. ti94 and I took seven boxes of books, totaling approximately 350 pounds, to the post office last night. I think there are another twelve boxes downstairs. Yeah, I have a lot of books.

One step at a time, I guess.

First lines

Ganked from, uh, just about everyone, the first line of the first post of each month this past year. (If the first post was locked, I'm including the first sentence anyway, because I am a tease like that.)

January: Despite all the stress and hassle that was 2004, a number of things happened in the last couple of days which push it firmly onto the "good year" side of the scale for me: I reconciled with John, I had a wonderfully relaxing trip home and got lots of good code written, and MacGyver is finally coming out on DVD.

February: You know you work too much when you have to schedule sex a day in advance.

March: /me dances the dance of being curled up on the couch waiting for the new iPod Shuffle to arrive instead of being at work.

April: My least exciting business trip of the year so far brings me to Des Moines.

May: Check out the back view of this jacket.

June: Earlier today, I was browsing through the silly programming languages here (think INTERCAL or Brainfuck, only with a weirder sense of humour), and noticed a reference to the Esoteric Language Contest.

July: Actually, I've been back since the 7th, but I've been travelling with my folks (who, somewhat to my surprise, actually showed up for my commissioning; Dad and turgon76 pinned on my bars, and Mom took pictures) and am heading back to Houston later today.

August: Starring maradydd as Our Heroine

Also starring yoctohedron as The Fellow Traveller

With cipherpunk as The Co-Presenter

Featuring cameos by, um, something like half of LJ

September: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

October: Got an email today from Google's staffing department; they want a phone interview the week of the 10th.

November: Finally caught back up with $bay_area_security_firm dude today, and played phone/email tag whilst en route home from Toronto; net result, they're flying me out to San Jose for an on-site on the 21st.

December: Reposted from sclerotic_rings: behold the glory that is Cephalopodmas.