My daughter turns a dozen, today. Yep. (Next year they’ll both be teenagers. Heavens help us.) Okay, seriously, she’s an incredible kid. Or, young person, I suppose it’s about time to say. I’m awfully proud of her, and I look forward to seeing in what direction she decides to take her life.

Happy Birthday, sweetie.

(The entry title refers to a little game she and I have been playing pretty much her entire life… “Meep” is a touch on the nose, “Koosh” is a pat to the top of the head, and the newly-added “Wiggle-wiggle” is grabbing earlobes and wiggling. That one’s her own invention. Way to go, Miss Exe-Koosh-ener.)

You know it’s a typically lazy Saturday when your two biggest accomplishments are organizing some of your anime CDs into new binders and finishing a Windows system build-out that you started on Tuesday.

I am, indeed, just that exciting of a human being. Aren’t you just honored as all heck to know me? Yeah, you know you are.

Okay, so I blew off writing again yesterday. It’s not like anything happened that I didn’t predict in Saturday’s posting. I did, in fact, work on the Universe Changed project. (I have a good “master disc” for the first two episodes, and I have up to the 5th episode’s raw capture file on the hard drive.) I didn’t reinstall Linux on the server, but then again I did get the printer to work. (The traditional thinking in Linux-land is that you don’t need a reboot to make things work. Sometimes, however, the traditional thinking is worth just about as much as the paper it’s written on.) I vegged out quite a bit, catching five episodes of Noir and finishing up the night with a good round of Empire Earth during which The Roomie, The Ratboy and I stomped all kinds of over our computerized opponents.

Ah, mayhem. It does a psyche good.

D’oh-eth! I totally spaced out on writing an entry yesterday. First it was a busy (and long) workday, then it was fighting with my printer at home, then it was several hours of mostly-enjoyable CoH gaming, then it was fall over asleep.

You’d think that somewhere in there I’d have cranked out some verbage, but you’d apparently think wrong. Ah well.

Today’s going to be busy, so I’m doing this now. Let’s see… trip to Fry’s to get compy parts for The Ex, hang out with kidlets, then go eat and watch movies with Lil’ & Co. Yep, that’s going to pretty much fill my day. Tomorrow? I’m vegging out as much as possible. You betcha.

Oh, I might reinstall Linux on my home server, though (on account of the aforementioned printer trouble, among other general disappointments with Fedora Core). And I want to work on the Burke VHS-to-DVD Project. Damn. No vegging for me, this weekend…

Is it just me, or are some three-day weekends actually shorter than their normal, two-day counterparts?

I could use for this particular weekend to have lasted, oh, a few days more. Seriously. Le sigh.

You wouldn’t think that it would take very long to get from SE 39th and Gladstone to SE 34th and Belmont by bus, especially when you get to the bus stop just in time to catch one. Today, you’d be wrong, however. Did you know they’re doing paving on 39th? I didn’t. I do now, though. We couldn’t even get off the bus at Belmont.

Our destination? The Tao of Tea, a nifty little hole-in-the-wall tea place (go figure). Of course, we almost missed it due to the hustle and bustle of… the Belmont Street Fair, taking place one day only… today. Of course.

This is the sort of wacky luck I tend to have. It makes life more flavorful, I suppose, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Oh, and the coconut mint frappe was pretty good. (Seriously? The size of the tea menu borders on the mindboggling.)