Tranquil Sunday

Lazy Sunday: slept in until long after noon, made tea, ate a bowl of the new chocolate Lucky Charms. Checked e-mail, RSS feeds, and my bank balance. Sat on the couch with Erica while she scribbles notes regarding her game of Monster Rancher 4 on a small yellow legal pad.

Life cannot be better than this day, I think.

I'm pretty sure my lease expired yesterday. Jackbooted thugs did not forcibly remove me from my home this morning. I intend to deliver a rent check tomorrow same as I always do. We'll see if I'm living somewhere else come June 1.

Of all the reviews of Mac OS X Tiger, none of them are from a hardcore Terminal user's perspective. I want to know what the UNIX internals of the OS are from someone else who uses their Mac for nothing more than Firefox and Terminal. This will not prevent me from investing in it, I'm sure, but it is a curious thing I've noticed. Every review, save for Ars Technica's, just handles the end user GUI, lovey-dovey experience. I want to know what version of OpenSSH it ships with. Postfix. Python. Shells. (I have just been reminded that I need to update my OpenBSD ksh port to Apple OS X. I don't expect trouble, but hey, one more thing I need to put on some list, right?)

Still in my pajamas at 4:30, and I wonder how long I can go before I have to get up again. For the life of me, I can't bring myself to feel worried about all the stuff that's going on in my life right now. Is this what serenity feels like? I know that tomorrow is going to bring its usual drama of pissy users and clueless vendor-related dilemmas. "I think your firewall is busted," they said. Their internet appliance was using a firmware version two years out of date. So until then, I'm just going to focus on the now and try to make this the best Sunday, May 1, 2005 I can.