2006-01-08

Day three without the La (who's in Florida):

Caught Mira actually purring as she curled up next to my head. Usually she only purrs for the La, so this was a pleasant surprise for me. Now I get purrs too!
Scrubbed the inside of the shower with a three-foot brush, removing all the mold. Mira poked around the stall and got soaked for her curiosity. I also gave the tile just outside the door a going-over.
Continued cleaning up the living room post-rearrangement.
Photographed La's school posters on the porch, before they got any more wrinkly.
Installed the extra mounting brackets into my external drive array and hooked it up with Tin Loaf, then transferred 25 gigabytes of movies over the network.
Did some test-burns with the external DVD drive - seems to be OK.
Swapped around USB hubs and kicked Windows XP repeatedly until the DVD player and the TV tuner both worked (took way too long).
Won a game of Warcraft III, then lost four more.
150 more pages of Asimov's "Murder at the ABA".
Ate a veggie-burger and salad at the Saturn.
Felt subtly amused that, with billions of people all around me, I still felt like being by myself for the whole day.