AKMA’s Random Thoughts

Excedrin Headaches

Two things went very well this morning: our car passed emissions testing (Warren tuned it perfectly), and we found the registration for the car. These are good things, especially since Margaret is planning to take the Pip and Josiah for a road trip beginning next week (Pip to see a long-time best friend, Si to investigate colleges to which he might apply).

At least two other things have gone wrong. First, I had a catastrophic hard drive failure; DiskWarrior is grinding away at it (five hours as of 5:15 eight hours as of 8:15 CST), but it᾿s the kind of crash that can take hours to remedy (and I᾿m not complaining about that; it᾿s better than formatting and restoring). But I᾿m offline, and all my passwords, bookmarks, and [especially] files are inaccessible. Actually, I do have back-ups on CDs and at the office. . . hmmmmm. . . . Margaret᾿s letting me borrow her iBook for the time being. . . . hmmmm. . . .

The other thing that᾿s gone wrong, and it breaks my heart, is that the emergent BLX standard is being hijacked by all sorts of well-intentioned-but-misguided (and perhaps some malevolent, I’m sad to say) types. Look, the way forward runs through progress , not stasis or regress . Maybe we do need a BLXCon to settle the differences. Or a multi-standard game of UT 2004, at which (of course) I’d be at a fatal disadvantage, as a pacifist non-FPS player. Umm, three-way chess anyone?

I sure hope Duke wins tonight, at least.

Later: The hard drive is still misbehaving, and Duke just blew an eight-point lead. Some days, you just shoulda stayed in bed.

Oh, did I mention that I have two sermons to write in the next two days?

Posted by AKMA at April 3, 2004 04:59 PM | TrackBack