Category: McQ

Just a reminder that the spring Divertimento “pops” concerts are tomorrow and Saturday at 8pm. The program is:

The Friday concert is at Rideau Park United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Drive. The Saturday concert is at L’Église St-Thomas-d’Aquin, 1244 Kilborn Ave. I haven’t got any tickets to sell, but they will be available at the door:

Adults: $10.00
Students/Seniors: $8.00
Children under 13: $5.00

I was up at 5am this morning to get to the airport in time to get through airport security before my flight left. Somehow in the process of taking everything you own and putting it in little grey boxes to go through the scanner, I missed the PDA in my pocket, so when it set off the security station they were (of course) inordinately interested in why I had tried to get through without getting it scanned (doh!). At which point, they told me to take off my belt, shoes, etc. — anybody who travels to the US now, knows the drill.

I did finally get through the checkpoint, but my Bluetooth GPS unit fell out of my coat when I was taking it off and smashed on the cement floor. I put it back together, and it appeared to be communicating with my PDA, but it couldn’t see any satelites (even standing at a window) which leads me to believe it’s busted. More testing required.

The flight was cramped but uneventful, which is about the best you can hope for now. I went directly from the airport to work, but didn’t stay for very long. I needed to come home and nap long enough to be awake at the orchestra dress rehearsal tonight.

I got about an hour of sleep in before Dennis called home to say that his wallet had been lost, and just under 5 more minutes before he called again to say it had been found. At that point, I gave up on the napping idea.

The good news is that I’m back at home again, but man, I hate travelling!

One day finished, one left to go. Yesterday’s sessions varied a bit, but there were some good ones. The lecture by the guy from the Harvard Business School was actually pretty good. No answers, but he did give you something to think about.

We’ve got formal sessions until 15h00 today, but my team is getting together this evening too. Then it’s one more night in the hotel room and I get to head home.

See you tomorrow. 🙂

We got in last night around 20h00. The plane ride was fine — a bit bumpy and it took about 25min longer than it should have, but it worked. The hotel room is reasonably nice:

Nothing interesting is supposed until 10h00, but we’re meeting for breakfast in a few minutes, so I’m going to head out.

I’m packed and as ready to go as I’ll ever be. Dennis came down with a cold today, so I’ve been trying to avoid catching it from him. I guess I’ll find out whether I was successful just about the time the plane lands. *sigh*.

You know, I really hate travelling.

I am going to a company meeting in Lexington next week. I fly out on Monday and get back on Thursday during the day. Those of you who know me, will know that I am already stressing over the travel.

Just to make things even more interesting, Thursday is the dress rehearsal for the next Divertimento concert. btw, if you are interested in going, here is a link to the concert information.

Yesterday was my birthday. Thanks to all for coming over and helping me celebrate. I had lots of fun, and I hope y’all did too.

The first time I played Dungeon Siege, I found it to be too shallow as an RPG and gave up on it fairly quickly. This time, I decided to give it a bit more slack — basically, I treated it as an “RTS with only Heroes” and found it to be a lot more engaging. I played it right through to the end; my only complaint being that by the time I reached the end my characters were so uber that it wasn’t a big deal finishing off the end boss.

Oh well. It was a good waste of time while waiting for Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.

Ok, now I’m pissed. As long as it was just Desperate Housewives, I couldn’t care less that we couldn’t download TV shows on the Canadian iTunes Music Store. But now we’re talking Battlestar Galactica!

Hey, whoever is holding up progress: I want my iTMS TV!

Palm has indeed (finally) come out with the rom update that they have been promising for quite a while. Given how long it took to get here, I would have hoped the install would be less painful, but it did work — I think.

Part of the problem is that they didn’t include the standard “Here’s how you tell you’ve been updated” information on their website. That, plus the fact that it shut off part way through, and I had to reset it to get it to finish, makes me wonder whether I actually got the whole update or not. I’ll play with it tonight, to see if I can figure that out.

A worse problem was that, on the first sync after the update, it (together with The Missing Sync) caused all my contacts to be thrown away. Luckily, I managed to catch this before a .Mac Sync happened. Reseting my sync info fixed the problem on my Mac and the next sync fixed the LD too. The alternative would have been too frightening to consider: .Mac would have happily taken the trashed contact info and distributed it to all my Macs, almost guaranteeing that it would have been an unrecoverable problem.

Oh well, I didn’t brick the LD, and the Mac’s (appear to) still have all the right data on them, so I guess I can declare this as another typical Palm update. oao.