Progress and regression
May. 12th, 2008 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoThe HVAC guys were at the library today to start repairing the damage done by the copper thieves. They say that it's likely the thieves were interrupted by something or someone. Otherwise they would have done far more damage. They advise enclosing the entire equipment area in security fencing immediately. I know that isn't going to set well with the city, the library board, or my boss. Not so much because of the cost as because it will "look like an armed camp." Of course the city has a wellhead within about 500 feet of the building and that is surrounded by chain link and barbed wire.
Some little progress on the MUSH environment. More habitat built, and one custom command adapted and installed. MUSH code is like LISP, nested parens and brackets until you want to go mad. It's also more or less object oriented, which is logical in a sort of perverse way, but OOP always hurts my head.
For several years, our mail carrier at the library has been taking our outgoing mail with him. Being a library, of course, we mail a certain number of books to other libraries. We use a postal scale and put on the correct amount of postage, and he's been taking them for us. No more, though. Apparently the word came down that he could no longer accept anything that weighs more than a pound. Letters are OK, packages are not. As this came to me second hand, it also included the instruction that it wasn't legal to put stamps on such packages any more, which I find hard to believe. But we are told not only must we take them to the post office personally in order to get them mailed, but we can't prepay the postage unless we use a meter. What's with that? Is Homeland Security now in league with Pitney-Bowes the way the Bush administration is cozy with Exxon?
Speaking of which, as I predicted, the four gas stations in Harvard jumped their prices again today to 4.09 for unleaded. They've been increasing the price twice a week for a while now, sometimes in jumps of 15 or 20 cents. This makes them still the highest priced stations within at least 25 miles.
Some little progress on the MUSH environment. More habitat built, and one custom command adapted and installed. MUSH code is like LISP, nested parens and brackets until you want to go mad. It's also more or less object oriented, which is logical in a sort of perverse way, but OOP always hurts my head.
For several years, our mail carrier at the library has been taking our outgoing mail with him. Being a library, of course, we mail a certain number of books to other libraries. We use a postal scale and put on the correct amount of postage, and he's been taking them for us. No more, though. Apparently the word came down that he could no longer accept anything that weighs more than a pound. Letters are OK, packages are not. As this came to me second hand, it also included the instruction that it wasn't legal to put stamps on such packages any more, which I find hard to believe. But we are told not only must we take them to the post office personally in order to get them mailed, but we can't prepay the postage unless we use a meter. What's with that? Is Homeland Security now in league with Pitney-Bowes the way the Bush administration is cozy with Exxon?
Speaking of which, as I predicted, the four gas stations in Harvard jumped their prices again today to 4.09 for unleaded. They've been increasing the price twice a week for a while now, sometimes in jumps of 15 or 20 cents. This makes them still the highest priced stations within at least 25 miles.
