Weekly update (maybe)

Well, here's an idea: let's try doing one update per week, maybe Monday mornings after I get my email / etc. settled. Now is such a time.

OK, what's going on:
Work (that I can talk about): I played around with a Sun Ray last week, got the server hoisted, it's such a great idea, too bad it didn't fly (although for all I know there are entire large companies running on these things). The hot-desking part is awesome, it's especially neat if you have to go the lab or something: just pop out your card, pop it in at the lab and it's like you never left. Totally kick-ass. I was thinking about taking one home so I could hot-desk into work from home, but then I remembered that we don't actually have a monitor at home, so that put an end to that. So, I think I'll put one in each of the labs and see how that works out. Also working on some other fun stuff that I don't want to write about here.

Home: Clau was sick last Saturday so we stayed inside the entire day, watching TV and eating soup. It was awesome. I played my video games until the wee hours and slept in a little on Sunday. On Sunday, we went to carve pumpkins with John and Nicole (the other couple from the Amazing Race picture). Clau hadn't done it since she was a little kid (honestly I couldn't remember the last time I did it), but we had a lot of fun, ate a lot of toasted pumpkin seeds, and the jack-o-lanterns actually came out pretty good (considering my absolute lack of artistic talent). Then we went home and Clau started working on setting up her PDA, which went late into the night. I just wanted to be grumpy and watch TV but she kept asking me to rescue her from some tech corner she'd painted herself into. Still, she got pretty handy with the Palm pretty fast; good to see there's a geek in there somewhere.

Also, I called my grandmother, and through a little phone-tag I found that she's doing the family Xmas party on Dec 10. That works out for us, but I think it may conflict with this year's Santacon: we didn't go last year (because we didn't know about it) but we're determined to go this year, unless something else conflicts with it (like my family's Xmas party).

I guess that about covers it: temps are definitely getting cold, and it's still pretty dim when I leave for work now. In a month I'll probably be forced to wear a hat. Oh yeah, speaking of which, Clau bought a bunch of pants on Sunday, too, so she's happy.