Entries in Life

David McCusker seems to have be having marital issues as well. He is obviously not as confrontational as I am, but he's hinted before that he tries to avoid the shouting matches they had earlier in life over money. If Alexis stayed out late talking to 19-year-old hunks, I'd have a thing or two to say. Not that it'd do much good since Alexis has her own extreme stubbornness. (Alexis tells me I can't say she is stubborn without giving examples.)

But, Alexis and I are at a different stage in our marriage than David and his wife. Which is not to say that I think his situation is inevitable, but that he his probably dealing with it differently than I would because of the time they've been together.

Of course, I think a lot of this has to do with the way David handles life. His aproach is more analytical than mine. Perhaps even more mature. There are probably things he isn't telling us. He could be screaming up a storm!

On the off-chance that someone in Austin who has some GPG/PGP keys reads this, I'm going to be there on the 25th and 26th. Anyone want to sign my keys?

GNUenterprise (GNUe) looks useful for businesses. Combined with NOLA, a GPLed financials system, it would be dynamite!

I must seem like a David McCusker groupie. Mostly, I admire his no-BS blog with a lot of technical stuff added in that I don't always get (I'm a sysadmin, not a programmer, Jim!). It reminds me of what other people must see when they read my blog sometimes. Reading more of him is getting me to think more of this as a journal rather than just pointing and commentary. And, that's a good thing.

I hope, though, that I don't offend him (or others) by my comments of what I would do in his situation. I'm just an outside, distant observer. I don't know everything going on in his head. I don't know anything but what he chooses to say.

Tomorrow, I plan on taking paperwork in for the legal eagles of my employer to sign so that I can contribute some stuff I've done on-the-job to GNU Emacs. The Free Software Foundation is pretty picky about copyright.

Soon, I'll document how to burn an bootable CDROM installer for Solaris 8. I got this working today — it was a happy occasion. The most frustrating part of it was dealing with my boss. He is a former mainframe programmer (ok, so he claims to have done client-server stuff as well), but, though he must have had some experience on the other end of this, he seems to have a hard time managing technical people. There is this idea that nothing I do should take more than a day or two and that I should always be checking off items on my TODO list. But, I can't task switch very well, so things go much more slowly if I try to show some movement on all fronts.

My mom published a column today on her experience with our Pascha celebration:

I think that is fantastic! I not only get two Resurrection Sundays, but I can buy holiday candy at the clearance sale prices, prepare baskets and still be on time. My daughter-in-love can purchase her children's Easter clothes after the outfits are marked down.