Seeking, seizing the Kingdom

10. Caribou doesn’t serve real food.
9. Elk River is too far to go when your wife gets off work in 2 hours.
8. I like the French onion soup.
7. The bread is good too.
6. The endless cup of coffee.
5. Monticello seems to have just about everything else.
4. They don’t give you dirty looks if you stay all afternoon… and evening… and after they close… and…
3. I spend too much time at home.
2. I now have a computer that doesn’t throw my back out.
1. Jerrid would be livid.

Something great happened today. The notebook computer my boss sent me came via FedEx. It’s a Sharp Widenote M4000, and it’s working very nicely. I spent the day getting her set up. My old notebook is a tank (6 lbs. compared to a sleek 3.7 lbs.) and was giving me problems when using the wifi. I tend to travel a lot, so the hassle factor was quickly increasing. I pointed him to this machine which was on an Ebay auction, and he was able to snag it for just over 6 bills. It’s used, but outwardly, I couldn’t tell. Inwardly, I naturally installed Ubuntu.

For me, this draws an interesting parallel to how God sees and works on us. He’s less concerned about the hardware (our body), after all, he was the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) and he did a really good job (just ask my wife or any nurse or doctor), but he’s more concerned about reloading our software which has become corrupted through sin. I think there are a lot of euphemisms I could draw from this concept. Just need some time to ponder and expand a bit.

For those who may not know, procmail is a email processing program, very fully featured, very powerful, not user-friendly in the slightest.  Why use it?  Because it processes and sorts your mail before you go to read it, which is a fantastic thing.  But why in 17 years hasn’t someone come up with a better, less cryptic syntax for such features.  Writing my procmailrc is such a pain, getting the little-known syntax just right.  Most of the guys who write about procmail “recipies” on the web are just trying to show off their sheer “geekness”, that they have somehow come to understand a mystery thought equal to that of the female psyche (but at least there is some documentation for procmail).

When I am rich (God, please not famous), I would like to write a procmail alternative, written in Ada, of course.  Don’t hold your breath for this one.

Maildir is *much, much* faster than mbox using IMAP.  Snag yourself a copy of Courier IMAP and stop waiting for your e-mail!

Joy won a ticket to a Twins game tonight for Nurse’s week, so we’re off to the ballgame.  We’re gonna sock it to those sox!

If you find her, tell her and May and I are looking for her.  Thanks.