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Gah... flop
May. 4th, 2010 08:50 pmThis feels like a Wednesday and it's only Tuesday so far. Ugh.
Much alarums and excursions at work, but none about anything real, at least not yet real.
I've apparently misplaced an installation CD for OpenVMS Alpha 8.3. It's somewhere here on my desk amidst the mountain of paper, I'm sure. Time for a real cleanup. Now when is there time to do that?
Sifting through a mountain of donated books at work, found a couple of gems. Children's school reading primers from the 19th and early 20th century. I've just about built up a large enough collection of these to make a display case exhibit. The 19th century ones are just awful, so goody-goody and religious they are downright offensive. Engravings of children all dressed up in Victorian clothing and sitting or standing primly in front of a teacher or other adult. I'll bet real kids weren't any more like that in 1860 than they are today. Still the books are interesting and in remarkably good condition for their age. I certainly won't look that good when I'm 150 years old. They were really used, too, and have the names of half a dozen owners written in the front.
Of course there was also a truckload of dreck. There always is. At least a bushel of cheap Harlequin romance paperbacks. Hard to believe anyone could read that many of those, they are all the same. Well, they've switched from red to blue covers. Or maybe there's a content difference between the red ones and the blue ones? I'm not looking inside to see.
Much alarums and excursions at work, but none about anything real, at least not yet real.
I've apparently misplaced an installation CD for OpenVMS Alpha 8.3. It's somewhere here on my desk amidst the mountain of paper, I'm sure. Time for a real cleanup. Now when is there time to do that?
Sifting through a mountain of donated books at work, found a couple of gems. Children's school reading primers from the 19th and early 20th century. I've just about built up a large enough collection of these to make a display case exhibit. The 19th century ones are just awful, so goody-goody and religious they are downright offensive. Engravings of children all dressed up in Victorian clothing and sitting or standing primly in front of a teacher or other adult. I'll bet real kids weren't any more like that in 1860 than they are today. Still the books are interesting and in remarkably good condition for their age. I certainly won't look that good when I'm 150 years old. They were really used, too, and have the names of half a dozen owners written in the front.
Of course there was also a truckload of dreck. There always is. At least a bushel of cheap Harlequin romance paperbacks. Hard to believe anyone could read that many of those, they are all the same. Well, they've switched from red to blue covers. Or maybe there's a content difference between the red ones and the blue ones? I'm not looking inside to see.
