2004-05-30-0218Z


Haven't received any supplement to my budgeted amount of $10/day for what, 3 days now? That's good, it means I might actually be able to maintain this. So far I've got almost $5 to last for the next 4.5 hours, and I just had a double cheeseburger at McD's. Plus I've still got a sour orange and a few barrel cactus fruits in my pocket, and two full water bottles. You can see that the lesson I learned on that windy day sunk in a little at least; I keep those goddamn bottles full. And I don't worry too much about the quality of the water. Sure, there are poisons of some sort in just about any water supply. The trick is to keep moving city to city and getting different poisons, so the same one doesn't keep building up in your system.

Last night I got, finally, after over a year, a working Linux system on the laptop. Those tireless maintainers of the wlan-ng package fixed the bugs in their Prism3 support, and now the built-in USB wireless of the Averatec works like a champ. Next step is to get all my development stuff onto the Linux partition and keep XP around only for a backup system, and for testing Windows software for clients. I can't think of anything I do in Windows that I can't do better under a Unix system. That'll be my goal for tonight, my Exodus from Windows!

I also made progress in the last few days on my IPN script. In fact, it now works; there were so many bugs! Next step there is to add the storefront code to the script.

Uncontrollably bursting into tears a lot lately, missing my lady. Something I just have to deal with. Or lay off the freakin' grains. Wasn't it Robert Anton Wilson who said you can tell a lot about a society by what drugs they allow and which ones they ban?

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