Working lately on upgrading our MS SQL7 database system to MS SQL 2000. We must make this step to go to the next version of our vendor-supplied system. Would it work on 7? Probably. I doubt that the system itself needs any of the SQL Server functions... but the vendor won't support us unless we move up. Fine.

I am really frutstrated by this.

I have done an informal survey, and I have found that more than half-- a lot more than half-- of people around where I live do not wear seatbelts.

This is disturbing, given the overwhelming evidence that wearing a seatbelt can save your life.

I saw a city police officer, a firefighter, and water company employee in company vehicles the other day, none of them wearing seatbelts.

This is ridiculous.

The issue with off-shore support continues. I had been very satisfied with Lexar's tech support when I washed my thumb drive... but now I can't get a support agent on this SD Card, and when I got one earlier, they never emailed to follow up on the problem.

I'm now waiting in queue to get to talk to someone again.

This sucks.

Lately I've been pissed off about the way my state's legislature is acting. The duly elected representatives of the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky have failed to pass a budget for the Commonwealth, first in last year's General 60 day session, and now again in (so far) the odd-year 30 day session.

All the while that they've ignored this budget issue, they've been passing feel-good legislation and "can't lose" morality bunk that sidesteps the real issue: the budget.

My friends Paul and Jama gave me a small basic GPS for my birthday. Someone gave Paul this GPS for Christmas... but he already had one. So he re-gifted it to me.

After they gave me the GPS, we worked on drywall in my attic. We're doing this drywall work to finish the attic for use as a guest room/bed room. Should be really nice once we get it done.

I got my new Dell PocketPC last week. I got it to replace my Palm Tungsten E. The Palm had sort of quit working, and was very frustrating, because I depend on it for scheduling and reading of novels.

So I went to get it fixed, and Palm wanted $125 to fix it. I could get the Dell Axim 30 with Wifi built-in for $279... so that's what I did.

My wife got a new Toshiba laptop with wireless networking this weekend... web browsing from the couch in the living room... or from the bed... or from anywhere... pretty cool.

She'd been wanting a new computer for sometime, and we found a deal that we just couldn't pass up.

I have recently been inspired by discussions about backups and VPN with a friend to move my home directories into subversion. I have 3 PCs that I use with some regularity: my PC at work (for work), my PC at home (which is relegated to the basement) and my wife's PC (on the main floor of our home). Since I have data stored on all three, stuff that I need is seldom where I need it.

I am addicted to laziness.

I heard about a man who died yesterday at 113 years old. He was still shoveling snow over the age of 100. He lived on his own til he was 111.

His theory: keep working. Don't stop to watch TV.

I don't know if I agree with that theory, but he certainly wasn't lazy.

But I am. And I don't know how to get beyond it.

This past weekend, the quiz team went to Pikeville College for competition. The stats:
1-4 on the day, only defeating Henderson Community College
we lost the first 2 games by a total of 2 points. 4 points more, and we would've been 3-2 on the day.

We traveled to Pikeville in the University's conversion van. Pretty nice ride, but the kids were disappointed that the VCR/TV deal didn't work all that well.

I like this interface. I'm at Slashdot every day anyway.

Nothing to report this morning, other than that I am tired.

Yesterday, had to let the quiz team practice by themselves so Anne could get recital started... when I got home, I just got to put JP to bed.

Still working on reading Don Quixote... I have been reading a lot more voraciously since I got my palm... just switched over to using the Weasel reader from Documents to go... just one question: how about some serif'ed fonts?

It's Monday morning. Back to work. I'm very tired. I need coffee. And it's back to work.

Spent a couple hours applying joint compound to seams in my attic.

I hate drywall mud.

Spent the day in a Bishop's committee retreat for church. I think it was very productive. That's all I can say here without breaking confidence.

I am working on assembling a simple tool kit to take with me in my "purse" to help me fix problems I encounter. Portability is as important as functionality.

Wish me luck. More info to follow.