done! uh, almost.

Bloody hell, is that the time?

• Petition: check (16 pages -- if we get more than that, I'll weep for joy and send someone to Kinko's)


• Posters for panels: check


• Posters for prize draws: check


• Flyer: check (many thanks to raithen, crankygrrl, and J for valuable input)


• Cookbook flyer: check


• Buttons: check (aren't they purty? They better get used or I will be very, very cross)
  


• Sheet protectors: check


• Mailing labels (at vast expense to the management, should've just ripped some off from work but I feel bad enough about the colour printer, what a nuisance ethics are), plus originals to copy off in case we run out: check

Still to do: huge quantities of copies of the flyer. Print out signup sheet. Pens. Binder. I'd really like a clipboard, but let's not go overboard... meant to canvass the list, perhaps tomorrow... Oh, and laundry, bills, dishes, garbage, pack, cancel newspaper delivery, all that good stuff.

Going home now. *ducks*

Brief, wild surge of hope crushed

raithen, who has suffered through many Sony computer problems in her day, pointed me to the Sony tech support site (which must have the sorriest metatags in the world).

So I now know how to reinstall DVD Express. Better, I even have the recovery CDs! (mental nod of apology to person who configured this computer). However:

1. The CD believes I am not running it on a Sony system.


2. Apparently, my Virtual Device Driver is invalid.

I have to get to work, so this will have to wait... I do feel rather flung back to the foot of the mountain here, however.

Oh, crankygrrl: RealPlayer and QuickTime installed. Ta da. My scorn for RealPlayer continues unabated (I think it's all the bloody ads, and the fact that you have to hunt so hard on every page for the free download link), but I have it.

This week's horoscope

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Dear Dr. Brezsny: Reading your 'scopes lately has felt like finding a roll of hundred dollar bills in a heap of moldy sour cream in a garbage can; like getting a great massage from a cute underwear model in a velvet sanctuary while some jerk with a chainsaw prunes trees outside. How about serving up less paradoxical advice? I'd almost prefer getting a purely bad prediction to this maddening ambiguous stuff you've been serving up. -Scorpio Goddess"

Dear Goddess: I'm just reporting the facts, ma'am. You yourself have been like a sleek athlete trying to do what you do best while stuffing your face with doughnuts . . . like a brilliant scholar struggling to read your books in a mirror with one eye closed . . . like a spontaneous kid hoping to convince a humorless octogenarian to play tag.

I hate it when he reads my psyche like that. OK already, I GET THE MESSAGE!

...uh, at least I think I do.

thanks to elissa_carey: my philosophic leanings

Not sure what this signifies, if anything. I had trouble with most of the questions (sign of woolly moral thinking, I'm sure (what a strange word "woolly" is)). I'm surprised by the match with Aquinas.

must...fight...urge...to...graph...these...results...

1. Aquinas (100%)
2. Spinoza (97%)
3. John Stuart Mill (92%)
4. Aristotle (91%)
5. Kant (82%)
6. Jeremy Bentham (73%)
7. Stoics (73%)
8. Ayn Rand (73%)
9. Nietzsche (71%)
10. Ockham (69%)
11. Cynics (67%)
12. Epicureans (67%)
13. St. Augustine (59%)
14. Prescriptivism (53%)
15. Nel Noddings (52%)
16. Jean-Paul Sartre (45%)
17. David Hume (43%)
18. Plato (36%)
19. Thomas Hobbes (36%)

Find yours.

My spider plant is flowering!

I had no idea they did that. So that's what those long tough stalks were for. Little white flowers, with long petals and lots of pollen.

partly imaginary, that's me

You're Hobbes. First of all, the makers of this
quiz would like to congratulate you. You have
our seal of approval. You are kind,
intelligent, loving, and good-humoredly
practical. You're proud of who you are. At the
same time, you're tolerant of those who lack
your clearsightedness. You're always playful,
but never annoying. For these traits, you are
well-loved, and with good cause.


Which famous feline are you?
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Oh good lord, that was 4 completely content-free posts in a row. Yikes.

Finished up at work, dumped everything on Gia (there is very little going on at present). Wrote up a whole long email, with examples, about exporting XML from FileMaker and possibly turning it into other XML that our LDE could read, which would be a Good Thing. (I'm about the last person who should be trusted with this research, given how little I know about the topic, but I think I gave us a starting point.) I'd forgotten how much fun it is to get my teeth properly into researching something, especially when there's an actual goal in mind and it's not just mindless information-gathering. How sad is that? Must give myself more specific projects like that in future.

Just have to pick up my photocopies for Toronto Trek, pack, tidy up at home, maybe do a load of laundry and I'm all set. Oh baby. There's bound to be a ton of stuff I've forgotten but I don't really care at this point. I'm done! I'm on vacation!