In just two short days, Cassini will fire it’s engines to slow down for Saturn orbit. 15 years in the making and after an almost 7 year trip, it’s finally arriving. Looking forward to some pretty sweet data from Cassini and later from Huygens when it drops down to Titan.
Tour de France 2004 in 6 days!
It’s coming! 6 days to go until the Tour starts. All the focus (particularly on OLN is on Lance Armstrong’s attempt for a 6th tour win. It looks like he’s still strong, but I wonder what the team is like this year. Seems USPS is dropping it’s primary sponsorship of the team, and they’ve lost Roberto Heras (one of their big climbers) to another team. I think it’ll be a good tour to watch this year.
On the move
In a few weeks, we’ll be moving to a new place. A bigger place, with more space for our Stuff. We’re not moving far. In fact we’re just moving to the other side of the building we’re in now, to a 2 bedroom apartment. The extra space will be very nice indeed, as we’re about bursting to the seams in our current place.
Now I have to collect a bunch of boxes to pack stuff up into, see about finding some mover guys to haul my stuff from one end of the building to the other, do the address changes and get utilities taken care of.
Fun fun fun.
OpenOffice doesn’t like my spreadsheets
Finally got my Win2k box to map my Fedora box as a network drive and transferred over a bunch of stuff. First thing I discovered is that my Excel spreadsheets apparently use a bunch of functions that aren’t implemented or have slightly different implementations by OpenOffice’s spreadsheet. There are a bunch of 502 and 504 errors that I’ll have to try to figure out how to fix. Already the transition to the Fedora desktop isn’t quite as seamless or painless as I hoped. Still, it could be worse.
Houseboat Hooligans: Chumming for Clowns!
There we were, enjoying another sunny day on the water floating around on the houseboat.
Somebody produced a bag of balloons from somewhere, which we proceeded to blow up. I think they might have been water balloons or something. So there are a few balloons floating around the inside cabin. We start off to our next destination, and then Joe starts throwing balloons out the window.
“Joe, what the heck are you doing?!” we ask.
“I’m chumming for clowns!” came his reply.