june

How is it that I missed this month for the last 27 years? My mother in law says it always rains in June. I can really not remember ever having this much rain in a 2 week period during the summer before, though... It's WONDERFUL. It's raining outside now (I'm on the porch thing). It's so cool, and humid, and it's so envigorating! (Well, it would be tonight, but I just got done with migrating from one server @ work to another, but it's Shabbes, so I'll go into that on Sunday or somewhen.)

Got an oil change and tire rotation, nothing wrong/bad was found (2nd time that's happened, maybe someone is smiling on me?). My plant from work was doing well enough that I decided to get another one, a palm, and take it to work, and bring the asterick ivy home. We'll see how it does outside first, it should actually get some direct sunlight in the morning at least, which is more than it got at work (north facing windows are wonderful, they don't get too hot, and I have a great view of downtown denver IMHO).

If it's raining tomorrow morning, I'm doing shul-at-home. It probably won't, but that's ok. But if it is, there's no way I could waste a good rainy day when I can stay at home and spend half an hour doing the shul thing. The local Rabbi's going on sabbatical, so I probably won't convert anytime soon. I did, though, voluntarily add the pork rule to my eating limits (no shell fish, now no pork). I can't decide if I'm going to go biblical kosher (ie. poulty and fish and meat (aka. mammilian meat) are all separately listed and categorized) or rabbinical kosher (poultry was declared "meat" (aka. in the same category as mammilian meat) by some Rabbis in the... 10th century, I believe).

Also, I can never really decide if I really want to convert. It might cause some conflict btwn and me, and of course there's the question of raising kids. We'd probably have to hem and haw over the exact wording that I could agree to, and the Rabbi would have to be involved, and I dunno if she's really wanting to involve a Rabbi in something that is, from a goy POV, between us two only... Just wait until I get to wanting to add the family purity (aka. no, um, you-know-what for almost 2 weeks a month). But I'm thinking if we do a wedding-like-thing (since we didn't do one in the first place), we might do it in a somewhat stereotypical Jewish theme (chupah, some of the wording/words and the walk around the guy thing, etc...)

She (the wife) does, though, seem supportive of my not eating pork. I'd been afraid that she would really have a problem with it, because it does limit what I can eat (okay, why is it that we can make some 20-odd kind of meats from a pig and only 4 or so from a cow?!). I just declared that I wasn't going to eat pork, and she was like "ok". And I told Janet and Art (inlaws) and they aren't having a problem with it either (which is kinda weird to me, but I can't quite tell what they think of my pursuing Judaism). Haven't told my mom, but she doesn't do pork already herself (most of the time). My mom's pretty supportive of me becoming Jewish.

The rain was nice while it lasted

Well, the rain was nice while it lasted. It was cold, though, but the air was so CLEAN. Anyways, we've got the place CLEAN. So we'll probably take some pictures of it soon. I'm out on the patio thing again. Reinstalling Gentoo (again, I can't find the drive I actually installed it on, or perhaps I got rid of it??), this time I'm doing raid on the / partition so that if it crashes I can keep working...

I hate Exchange. I was moving mailboxes fine, but the public folders won't sync/move between the servers at all. And the servers didn't want to route to each other, even though they were in the same routing group. I eventually just backed up the PFs to a local PST file and then blew them and the old server off of the Exchange map. Changed the mail store to use the PF on the new server (forgot to change that earlier), and changed the server to make it master of the routing group, and everyone was happy again. Well, except that we had to go around and change everyone's mail setup to use the new server. You'd think they'd put that into the AD so that when you login it knows....

If the CEO didn't require shared calendars, I'd blow away Exchange and put back IMAP in a heartbeat. And if Exchange pulls another "I don't work right" thing again, I may do that anyways, and figure out some other way of sharing calendars, it was a mess.

Did the jewish prayer thing this morning (at home, I've got a siddur and some printouts I like to use occasionally of an online siddur I found once), then proceeded to get ready to have the inlaws over this evening, which went just fine, although they're having fish tomorrow. I'll probably just have TV dinners or somesuch. Oh, that reminds me. Last Shabbes (Saturday) I decided not to have anymore pork, and so far The Wife seems OK with this... My plan to take over the world is proceeding on schedule... hahaha.

drivers and parking lots

(rant) Okay, I don't know what these drivers are thinking. I was going down a ONE-WAY row in the local WalMart parking lot, and this person stops at the end, where she, going along the edge, had right of way, and waits for me to exit. I was waiting for her to move, and she didn't, so I went, and then she went down, the WRONG WAY, the row. And it's not like her car is a VW Bug or something! I see so many drivers doing this, and it pisses me off, because then *I* have to make room for them, and they waste their and my time doing this! I swear, you should have to pass a test to renew your license, it's unreal. (end rant)

We got swivel stools for the kitchen island/table, and we're going to use the grill tonight, although I don't know what I'll make, maybe burgers or something..

And I got sandals (not flipflops). They feel ok, dunno yet if I'll want to get good ones (I got $5 ones at Walmart to see if they feel ok at least).

Morning..

Well, I wish I could go back to bed. But can't get back to sleep, even though I'm rather tired. So I'll blog for a minute then go make breakfast.

Yesterday evening we went and got a George Foreman (tm?) Grill. We'll probably use it in the next couple of days to make sure it works. The pieces don't really snap together or something, they just kinda "lay there".

Gave Shawn alot of pointers on network administration, esp. in regards to Windows 2000 Server (tm). I'll be helping him out as he starts out at his new job at Crystals, an adult-toy shop.

Got the rebate check from HP on my computer, we should have Kristin's as well, or perhaps it'll come in tomorrow. Hopefully the MicroCenter ones come through soon, they're $80.

But the best thing: someone's living in the old trailer. Which means it got sold. Yay! The part of my life can now be completely deleted from memory... well, mostly.

Well, the tummy's arumbling, so I'm gonna go get breakfast.

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