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The new server (still named “rupaul”) is in place. It is quite a bit smaller and quieter than the old server (“pangloss”), and it figures to save us a few bucks on the electric bill. All told, the upgrade project cost around $75. Both parts I ordered (PCMCIA USB 2.0 card [link] and an external [...]

Had my big cleaning appointment at the dentist’s yesterday. Happily, the hygenist was able to round off the sharp bit of the one broken tooth, so my tongue is now on the road to recovery without the assistance of candle wax. I got some super-fluoridated prescription toothpaste and mouthwash out of the visit. Extra fluoride [...]

Just as the pain and swelling from the one tooth subsided, another tooth elsewhere in the mouth started making trouble. In a lovely little bit of placement, though, this one is on the jaw itself and has a sharp edge that scrapes up the left side of my tongue. Scraped-up tongues tend to swell, and [...]

Installed Gentoo last night on the old Powerbook (which did, in fact, get named “rupaul”). That part only took about 5 hours, much of which was inattention on my part. Once the new system was in and the new kernel installed, though, I re-emerged world with new USE flags; that part took seventeen and a [...]

Not much to say tonight. Now that the tooth is no longer inflamed, we can do the holidayish stuff that we had skipped a week and a half ago. This includes shopping, which is actually better right after Christmas IMHO (lower prices, lower incidence of drama). We’re staying in tonight. The bubbly is chilling in [...]