nebrshugyo's Journal: My first jounal entry: "Dear Slashdot Diary...."

The subject sounds like "What I did on my summer vacation." Or worse. It's pretty bold to journal live on Slashdot. Am I geeky enough to be in this crowd? We'll see. This is a work and personal journal, without opening my kimono too much.

To begin, today's problems are, thankfully, small: lack of sleep, due to an early-rising child, and car repairs (which are never less than $300 and will likely be $1,000 when all is said and done). The devil is not in the details, its in deferred maintenance.

My chief work task today is manually re-creating a flat file of user records to load over those marked "do not change." That and finding out why oh why we got records for the fam-damnly loaded into the library system.

I'll take care of The Child tonight so my wife gets a break from parenthood. And if time permits, do the following:

      * Finish updating the R packages on my PC, just to have 'em all.
      * Figure out how to automatically start Apache 1.3 under Cygwin.
      * Figure out how to automatically start PostgreSQL 8.1, also under Cygwin.
      * Remove some unused software (yes, under Cygwin).
      * Put XEmacs back on my PC for no good reason.