Kevin's musings

Once again I forgot to rotate the journal over, so my April had a
bunch of March entries on the same page. Fixed now, and hopefully I
will remember not to do it with May.

Went up to loveland and picked up a new foster dog last night. There
is a track down in Texas that is closing (not sure if just for a
while, or forever) and they were really desperate for foster homes to
try and take in all the dogs from this track. So, the hauler came in
about 8pm sunday night to loveland, and I went and picked up “rum” and
“bullet”. My friend jeanne met me and picked up bullet and I kept rum
here. Bullet is supper outgoing, he kept trying to climb in the front
seat and kept wagging his tail. Rum is also a very friendly dog, but
less outgoing. He’s gigantic though, probibly 90 lbs and solid
black. very handsome.

Rum has been doing pretty well. He pretty much slept through the night
last night. He’s totally ignored the cat. Doesn’t even care to try and
sniff her. Twyla has been making sure he knows in no uncertan terms
that she is alpha bitch here. Mostly growling and teeth baring, and
also this morning she kicked him off the dog bed he was using. He
seems to have gotten the picture pretty quickly. He had one leg
lifting incident last night, but I had him on lead, so I stopped him
and took him out and he hasn’t had a problem since. I think he will
get adopted pretty quick, he’s a nice pup.

Had a nice (if small) BBQ gathering last night. A few folks wimped out
due to the weather, but the rest of us had a nice time.
tkil
made it in just fine, and there was much eating and drinking.

Looks like
tkil
is going to be in town this coming weekend. Sent out an announcement
for a BBQ friday night in his honor. If anyone reading this is
in the area and wants to attend, drop me an email and I will
give you directions. Should be a fun time.

In other news I have some friends coming up from New Mexico
today. They are coming up to pick up a horse, so they borrowed a
horse trailer from someone and started heading up. Driving down
the interstate they noticed a flapping noise, yes, one of the
tires had died a most greusome death. No problem, the trailer
has a spare. Much unbolting and jacking and so forth, then
moving the spare over and it becomes clear that: The spare is
the wrong sized tire. The spare is not the same bolt
pattern. The spare is flat. So, they just limped into pubelo and
picked up a new tire before heading up.

Finally (and I promise this will be it), I found an interesting story
on LSD. It turns out that LSD usage and sales have plummeted in
recent years. It’s really hard to get anymore. This can be
pretty directly traced to two things: In 2000 they busted some
guys who were making LSD (with 91 POUNDS of it on hand),
who were estimated to have been the suppliers for 95% of the US
market. Secondly, the Dead stopped touring. Dead shows were a
prime place for buyers and sellers to meet up, when that went
away it became much harder to make that connection. Anyhow,
interesting story:
slate on acid.

Well, I just spent about an hour and a half playing with ACPI on my
laptop. There was a patch mentioned recently on the linux-kernel
list called
wakeup_device (Bugzilla entry)
This makes a /proc/acpi/wakeup_device file, which you can then echo
what devices you would like to wake up your laptop from S3
sleep. For example, the LID button, or the power button, etc.
I tried the patch, but it wouldn’t let me set my LID or PWR buttons to
wake up the laptop. I tried setting everything it let me set,
but that resulted in a string of oopses. Guess I will stick with
software suspend (suspend to disk) now, since it seems pretty
stable under 2.6 again now.

Two events today:

Manned the greyhound table down at the petsmart on 104th and I25 for
Colorado Greyhound Companions
It was a nice time as usual. Took all 3 hounds, and they all had a
good time. Twyla was her typical flirtatious self (leaning on
people, trying to follow people off who petted her, etc). Kurt
was typically lazy (laying down on the hard cold floor since I
forgot to bring a blanket for him). Merlin was a bit reserved,
but still friendly. Passed out a bunch of brochures. Hopefully
it will result in some new foster homes. The group really needs
foster homes bad right now. We saw our friend Jackson the great
dane, and talked a bunch with the neutro lady at the next table
over. It was a nice time.

After I got back from the petsmart I gave the dogs a treat and headed
over to the
Clue North
Linux installfest. It was over at the devry campus about 2 miles from
my house, so it was really close and easy to get to. Found the
room after some wandering around (they had some big conference
blocking off some of the doors, so it wasn’t obvious how to get
into the room where the installfest was being held. Finally got
in there and there were lots of people already deep in installs
and such. Dived right in. The first about 30min were pretty
zippy with questions and problems coming from all sides. Then it
settled down some. Taught someone about iptables and firewalling
and looked at their shorewall setup. Tried to help someone else
install on a machine with limited space and tons of
partitions. Finally got them mostly set. Answered various other
random questions. It was fun. I wish I could have been there all
day to help out… they had a really nice turnout.

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