Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Thai curry
I had a great Thai beef curry with AJ tonight. I had beef, AJ had vegetarian, which is why he is so slim and trim, methinks.
After donner, AJ intended to break open a nice bottle of red wine but accidently picked up a bottle of Amantalado sherry. We quickly put it back, thinking that someone may have kept this for a special occasion and we could not justify that. So we found a nice red wine and then sat down in front of Shen's compueter to see if we can get it to work. The poor machine had been raped by a nasty virus and was using up 98% of the CPU doing nothing useful. The virus got killed (no antibiotic, of course), the antivirus and security suite was reloaded and configured to automatically run every night to chase away the nasties, and we connected Nick's MAC via the wirelessw lan to the great world wide web ... source of endless entertainment and countless vagrants.
I had a good long discussion with Shen and AJ on the merits of the 'Tuff Shed' vs Sami's great design. On the one hand, it looks great, on the other hand it costs a lot; on the one hand, it fits with the modifications, on the other hand it costs a lot; on the one hand it has style, on the other hand it costs a lot. AJ was figuring the cost of the material and trying to persuade me that "we can do it". But I was not ready to tackle a job like that. Not even close!
C and N went to look at their first potential new house! They are pretty excited with all the features but are taking the well thought-out approach of now first going to look at some more houses. "We are not going to buy the first house we see, no matter how nice", says Cheryl.
I am home with a doughnut and coffee and after all the wine I will not be able to update the system design I thought I will still do tonight. Oh well, tomorrow will have to do.
After donner, AJ intended to break open a nice bottle of red wine but accidently picked up a bottle of Amantalado sherry. We quickly put it back, thinking that someone may have kept this for a special occasion and we could not justify that. So we found a nice red wine and then sat down in front of Shen's compueter to see if we can get it to work. The poor machine had been raped by a nasty virus and was using up 98% of the CPU doing nothing useful. The virus got killed (no antibiotic, of course), the antivirus and security suite was reloaded and configured to automatically run every night to chase away the nasties, and we connected Nick's MAC via the wirelessw lan to the great world wide web ... source of endless entertainment and countless vagrants.
I had a good long discussion with Shen and AJ on the merits of the 'Tuff Shed' vs Sami's great design. On the one hand, it looks great, on the other hand it costs a lot; on the one hand, it fits with the modifications, on the other hand it costs a lot; on the one hand it has style, on the other hand it costs a lot. AJ was figuring the cost of the material and trying to persuade me that "we can do it". But I was not ready to tackle a job like that. Not even close!
C and N went to look at their first potential new house! They are pretty excited with all the features but are taking the well thought-out approach of now first going to look at some more houses. "We are not going to buy the first house we see, no matter how nice", says Cheryl.
I am home with a doughnut and coffee and after all the wine I will not be able to update the system design I thought I will still do tonight. Oh well, tomorrow will have to do.
