Life and Times

Life proceeds. A window is now in the deck so soon it may be enclosed again, I had started to doubt my prediction of 2 weeks, but we seem to be back on that schedule. I just don’t work well with people named Joe it seems or the like, I dunno. He’s doing the job very well as far as I can tell, just not very quickly.

Nick is not doing well, and I’m a bit fed up with it, I tried to explain to Ben today that he wasn’t always like this. My memory is really poor though in general, this morning (1am ish?) or late last night I was recruiting writers for articles on 11thedition.com and suggested since the first season of Enterprise had just ended Nick could write a recap of it. I was quickly informed that this was the 3rd season.

Met an interesting person today, very fired up about an idea he has, etc etc etc. Seems to know what he’s doing, but alas I have seen far too many people in exactly the same mindset as he is in right now that I have trouble doing any more than telling him “Good Luck!” and helping him out with some bits of Exchange server… bits I had never even heard off but that Mail.app was kind enough to have incorporated recently and that I think I was able to slightly explain to him. I’m not the best teacher at any time, let alone while I’m avoiding computers, and he was not the best of students, especially while he was very preoccupied with how he thought things worked. Oh well. I do wish him luck.

Everything is up with no server problems, this is how things _should_ run, it’s nice really.

Everything for the steps: one also seems to be falling into place, however I am very tempted to take money earmarked for it to buy myself a new camera… that aside though, if Ben finally decides he’s completely happy with his decision on lead actress I think it’ll all go smoothly, as smoothly as any independent film can go that is.

Finished the third book last night, Wilson came this morning with a couple more books and various food supplies. There are about 5 flies within my personal space at the moment which is quite annoying, and I itch from mosquito bites and a slight sunburn to the tip of my nose I think.

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Random Quote
“No, I want you to try. For the sake of those millions of worlds, billions of cultures, and quadrillions of people. Not for the Emperor. Not for Demerzel. For humanity.”
“I will fail, “ said Seldon.
“Then we will be no worse off. Will you try?”
And against his will and not knowing why, Seldon heard himself say, “I will try.” And the course of his life was set.

Attempted to sleep in, failed, continued reading Asimov’s Empire series, I had read the first book but seem to have failed to read the following 2.

Synced the iPod and took it, some headphones, and a camp chair down to lake Keetchelus to listen to music and catch a bit of sun. A couple tents were setup and a few kids were wading in life jackets, it seemed from my limited observation that they had no intention of going out to swim, or of following the instructions of the older child or adults. I stayed there until 12:30 and came back for lunch.

Finished reading the second book in the Empire series (which it strikes me as odd in that I believe they were written in the opposite order, 1950 was the third, 1951 the second, and 1952 the first. Which probably doesn’t matter since they only exist in the same thousand year or so period in the same universe, or quite possibly even more than that. I am reading them according to the timeline though instead of the writing order.

Joe has most of the deck put together now, basically all but the windows I think, it’s certainly better constucted than it was before. Only major problem is that there are no screens yet, and so having the interior windows open to facilitate construction (cables, music, etc) has allowed a LOT of flies, mosquitos, crane flies, etc in which are plaguing me as I write. I’ve killed most of the mosquits now but have suffered a fair number of bites.

Third book, here I come.