A pleasant day, full of ordinary pleasures.

Omaha and I found willing victims to take care of Kouryou-chan for the afternoon, so she and I went out shopping and dining, then came home and made wild pagan lunar love. I'll say this: nobody had better Luminol my bedroom.

One of the things I bought was a new hard drive. One of the two main storage drives on my desktop is throwing ECC errors, meaning "You can read from this drive, but don't write to it." I hate when that happens. At least I don't seem to have lost anything. I'll probably do the actual replacement tomorrow if the sun's out and it's nice.

Omaha bought a couple of nifty belts, and I joked about her shopping at places like Icing and Claire: "I see reclaiming one's youth involves garish belts with deaths-head buckles." I think she wanted to smack me.

Kouryou-chan came home and Omaha went back out with a friend. I made dinner: home-made macaroni & cheese for Kouryou-chan, steak for myself. I didn't buy it from the butcher, bad mistake. The stuff from the grocer is okay but it wasn't as good. I'll remember that next time.

Now that I have a memory chip for my Palm, I've been playing with porting much of my personal library to Plucker. If you'd like the entire Journal Entries in your pocket and you're a Palm user, the command for it is (all one line):

 plucker-build --noimages -N 'The Journal Entries' -f Journals --maxdepth=2 
--stayonhost http://www.pendorwright.com/journals/index-min.rhtml 

You'll have to open up a console to do than in an MS product, but it should work on all the major OSes out there. That creates a document 'Journals.pdb' (the name after the -f argument). Just sync that to your Palm's storage (the near-line card, preferably, as it's about 5MB, which is 63% of my Palm's onboard) and it'll show up as 'The Journal Entries' in your Palm library.

Am I Old?

This morning, Kouryou-chan asked me to play a video game with her. It was Sonic Heroes, which she knows inside and out, and I've almost never played. And by the time we'd played three levels and she'd won all three, I was frustrated and annoyed by it.

Part of the reason was because I couldn't make sense of it. The camera algorithm was terrible. I spent most of the game looking at my character's feet, or worse, with the camera stuck behind the alligator teammate with a butt so broad so I couldn't see anything at all.

It felt unfair. Every time I peeked over at her screen, the camera was doing a great job of lining her up with her destination, showing her where she should go. I couldn't tell if there was some setting I needed to pull the camera back or what, but I couldn't make it happen and believe me I tried every button and key combination I could imagine.

I had one of those cognitive failure moments. I couldn't help but wonder if this was how my parents felt when they were trying to deal with me and the huge inrushes of knowledge I would absorb in very short bursts, or trying to understand my fascinating with the fast, flickering new world of the Commodore 64.

Or maybe there just really is something wrong with the Player 2 setting on Sonic Heroes.

Ah, yes, I know this feeling

Ah, yes, I know this feeling:

From Yes But No But Yes.