Update day

[ellarien]

The second Tuesday in the month means two things: cake at 3pm, and MS updates. I also got QT updates -- I'm sure I update QuickTime and iTunes more often than I actually use them -- and updated firmware for my flash memory video recorder, and my office-mate got a new CPU fan.

There were three boxes waiting for me in the office this morning -- two heavy ones with the surplus copies of the proceedings volume, and one very light one with a small SD-HC card reader almost lost in the bottom. (The Eee understands the HC cards, and I think the big camera can use them, but no-one else does.)

I seem to have accumulated a surprisingly large number of cables (USB, parallel, coaxial and ethernet) over the years; I was looking for a short pass-through USB this morning and found one, but not the one I thought I was looking for.



Oh, one amusing thing. One of the sorority houses down the street from work has a couple of gilded concrete lions outside. At least, they're usually gilded, but they get prank-repainted on a fairly regular basis -- black for hallowe'en, green for St. Patrick's, pink for Valentines and so forth.The inhabitants must spend a fortune on gold paint; they're nearly always back to normal by the next day. Today, for some reason, one was white with a little filmy veil and the other was mostly black with a white shirtfront.

I'll try to be more interesting tomorrow, but I'm sleepy now.