An Encapsulated Weekend
May. 12th, 2008 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisSaturday morning started earlier with a quick run to Kensington to get my hair cut, then over to Alexandria to help Skip & ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ubel_josh move into a new apartment in the same complex. They had already transferred one truckload before I arrived with the help of Jeff & Dave, Christopher and Heather; we shortly had several other truckloads of furniture transferred. Dale, Steve, Doug and zzbear joined in as well. In all, we had the worst of it done by the mid-afternoon.
I spent the bulk of Saturday evening attempting to upgrade the unholy trinity of Sendmail, ClamAV and SpamAssassin on my Linux box. While I can't say I made a great deal of progress, at least I've determined definitively some approaches to the upgrade won't work. Note to Novell: your implementation of /etc/sysconfig/sendmail is a neat idea but utterly broken. Please try again, kthxbye.
I called a four hour C1 dance/workshop Sunday morning & early afternoon to get our newbie C1 dancers closer to at-speed dancing before we unleash them into the greater dance community. It wasn't a complicated affair: we had only one square and took generous breaks, but it was probably the longest block of square dancing calling I've done to date and the first time I've done significant sight calling & resolution of C1. Our newest dancers did pretty darn well too, signalling verbally when we hit a call which caused hesitation or confusion so we could workshop it thoroughly.
As soon as we pushed everyone out the door, we dashed down to Arlington to collect Jeff M., then head to the Potomac Yards cinemas to catch the 4:25 PM showing of "Iron Man." It was a fun flick and Robert Downey Jr is kinda hot with the facial hair so it was a matinee ticket well spent.
Following the movie, we visited a Korean restaurant in Annandale, VA, which Jeff had researched. Good food although slightly more expensive than I was expecting. Still, Jeff treated us so I can hardly complain about that.
Once home, I made the obligatory telephone calls to my mother and grandmother. I chatted with Mom for a while but could only get Grandma's voice-mail. All is well, more or less, back in Canada.
From Sunday late afternoon, it has been raining continuously and, at times, very vigorously. There are flood watches in place until 2 PM today for low lying areas; some school districts around DC are opening late or have cancelled their classes entirely. 4500 homes were without electricity this morning. Our home is well situated to remain dry and our power remains on, but we've had intermittent loss of our satellite signal since last evening, the first time we've experienced that in years. I hope that the region's water reservoirs are now back up to par.
ubel_josh move into a new apartment in the same complex. They had already transferred one truckload before I arrived with the help of Jeff & Dave, Christopher and Heather; we shortly had several other truckloads of furniture transferred. Dale, Steve, Doug and zzbear joined in as well. In all, we had the worst of it done by the mid-afternoon.I spent the bulk of Saturday evening attempting to upgrade the unholy trinity of Sendmail, ClamAV and SpamAssassin on my Linux box. While I can't say I made a great deal of progress, at least I've determined definitively some approaches to the upgrade won't work. Note to Novell: your implementation of /etc/sysconfig/sendmail is a neat idea but utterly broken. Please try again, kthxbye.
I called a four hour C1 dance/workshop Sunday morning & early afternoon to get our newbie C1 dancers closer to at-speed dancing before we unleash them into the greater dance community. It wasn't a complicated affair: we had only one square and took generous breaks, but it was probably the longest block of square dancing calling I've done to date and the first time I've done significant sight calling & resolution of C1. Our newest dancers did pretty darn well too, signalling verbally when we hit a call which caused hesitation or confusion so we could workshop it thoroughly.
As soon as we pushed everyone out the door, we dashed down to Arlington to collect Jeff M., then head to the Potomac Yards cinemas to catch the 4:25 PM showing of "Iron Man." It was a fun flick and Robert Downey Jr is kinda hot with the facial hair so it was a matinee ticket well spent.
Following the movie, we visited a Korean restaurant in Annandale, VA, which Jeff had researched. Good food although slightly more expensive than I was expecting. Still, Jeff treated us so I can hardly complain about that.
Once home, I made the obligatory telephone calls to my mother and grandmother. I chatted with Mom for a while but could only get Grandma's voice-mail. All is well, more or less, back in Canada.
From Sunday late afternoon, it has been raining continuously and, at times, very vigorously. There are flood watches in place until 2 PM today for low lying areas; some school districts around DC are opening late or have cancelled their classes entirely. 4500 homes were without electricity this morning. Our home is well situated to remain dry and our power remains on, but we've had intermittent loss of our satellite signal since last evening, the first time we've experienced that in years. I hope that the region's water reservoirs are now back up to par.
