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altivoThe snow was over today except it was still blowing around getting on the roads and stuff. And my windshield wipers kept freezing to the glass, which is a real pain. I need new blades I think.
More new books in at work, including The Tales of Beedle the Bard but no more 1909 titles. Just two to go, maybe tomorrow.Roads were bad enough that our delivery driver slid off into the ditch on his way to the library and had to wait for a tow truck to get him back on the road. Fortunately he wasn't hurt. He also works as a Santa in one of the malls outside Rockford. I guess he should have had his sleigh and reindeer instead of the station wagon this week.
Gas price at two of four stations in town was below $1.50. This morning one was at $1.49. This evening the one across the street was down to $1.45 and the first was down farther to $1.43. I haven't seen that sort of thing in... oh, good grief, over 40 years.
Had two birthday cards in the mail today, but set them aside unopened to save for the weekend. Also got a real modem. One that has an internal brain of its own and takes the old AT... Hayes style commands instead of needing some goofy driver that sucks the performance out of your CPU and only works on Windoze. My old Intel "Winmodem" had a Linux driver but that wouldn't recompile when I went to the 2.6 kernel. Now I find that Intel has completely stopped supporting its modem chips and removed all documentation and drivers from the web. Pretty tacky, Intel. Stopping support is OK some number of years after you quit making the things, but this one is only three years old, that's a bit soon. Removing all the docs and stuff is simply unacceptable, though. It costs you little to keep those available "as is" and is a real pain for people who paid money for your stuff and find they can no longer get any information about it. Anyway, the real modem connects over USB or serial port and requires no special drivers in the OS. Hence it can be used with any software, even on my Alpha or an old TRS80. And the price was right, just $23 off EBay. Looks like AOL surplus, probably was a signup premium at one time or other. But it was new in the box, shrink wrap and all, so that's a good deal.
[Yawns] Off to bed. That's enough for a Wednesday.
More new books in at work, including The Tales of Beedle the Bard but no more 1909 titles. Just two to go, maybe tomorrow.Roads were bad enough that our delivery driver slid off into the ditch on his way to the library and had to wait for a tow truck to get him back on the road. Fortunately he wasn't hurt. He also works as a Santa in one of the malls outside Rockford. I guess he should have had his sleigh and reindeer instead of the station wagon this week.
Gas price at two of four stations in town was below $1.50. This morning one was at $1.49. This evening the one across the street was down to $1.45 and the first was down farther to $1.43. I haven't seen that sort of thing in... oh, good grief, over 40 years.
Had two birthday cards in the mail today, but set them aside unopened to save for the weekend. Also got a real modem. One that has an internal brain of its own and takes the old AT... Hayes style commands instead of needing some goofy driver that sucks the performance out of your CPU and only works on Windoze. My old Intel "Winmodem" had a Linux driver but that wouldn't recompile when I went to the 2.6 kernel. Now I find that Intel has completely stopped supporting its modem chips and removed all documentation and drivers from the web. Pretty tacky, Intel. Stopping support is OK some number of years after you quit making the things, but this one is only three years old, that's a bit soon. Removing all the docs and stuff is simply unacceptable, though. It costs you little to keep those available "as is" and is a real pain for people who paid money for your stuff and find they can no longer get any information about it. Anyway, the real modem connects over USB or serial port and requires no special drivers in the OS. Hence it can be used with any software, even on my Alpha or an old TRS80. And the price was right, just $23 off EBay. Looks like AOL surplus, probably was a signup premium at one time or other. But it was new in the box, shrink wrap and all, so that's a good deal.
[Yawns] Off to bed. That's enough for a Wednesday.
