First, I wasn’t going to post anything so I could goof off and listen to music. Someone on my LJ friends list requested a mix tape disc archive and I figured I should get my brain percolating on ideas for what to include.

Then, I thought I should work on a playlist for a new music mix post, since I’ve been pondering making more of those. Even though nobody seems to like them much, hey, it’s my damned site and I’ll post music mixes if I jolly well feel like it. So there, and stuff.

Once I started assembling the playlist, I had a brainstorm. The brilliant idea will require a fair bit of additional work, but I figured I could do that on Thursday night and have the setup all done tonight.

Finally, I got carried away and assembled the first part of the project tonight. I’d just post the silly thing… but my computer’s still saving the compressed mixdown file, and I need to get to bed.

Ahem.

So, some time between now and bedtime on Thursday I should have at least half of the silly project posted. Watch for it, won’t you?

I’ve been multitasking heavily all day. At one point I used my console connection to this server to look up some port-to-service mappings. (Firewall logs at my employer’s colocation facility showed a couple of minor anomalies. I was tasked with tracking them down.) The grep session gave me more results than I needed, but I did find the desired information so I left the terminal session be and moved on to other things.

I just came back from foraging for foodstuffs, sat down, looked at the laptop screen and thought for a moment that my server had become possessed by LOLcats. At the tail end of the results from earlier, something that originally escaped my notice:

nomdb 13786/tcp # Veritas-nomdb

nomdb 13786/udp # Veritas-nomdb

Perhaps I’ve been reading too many cat macros, because I should not be seeing “NOM NOM NOM NOM” when perusing the /etc/services file…

Well, some great-and-powerful computer geek sysadmin guru-type fellow I turned out to be. I came home, got onto the computer to check my mail and do the other usual just-got-home online stuff, and the machine pops up a message saying that I’m low on disk space.

“I am not!”

Then I decided to check anyway.

Huh. Go figure.

So I burned off a couple of DVD-ROMs’ worth of downloaded videos; now my computer’s a bit happier with me. Apparently I have a new priority project for the foreseeable future… and my tax refund shopping list just acquired a new line item: A large secondary hard drive.