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An evening spent with my computer, music, and geekery; watching the perl installation roll along, listening to Tara Maclean.


Now I don't know what to believe
This girl made of steel with
her heart on her sleeve
Looking for someone
to love and leave me
That's me


Just the right musical style for the mood and watching gcc output scroll by for an hour or two. The sad part is that I find this kind of fun to stay up until the wee hours of the morning with a CD or five and something geeky like installing a new web server. I think part of the appeal is the fact that it's essentially alone time. C. is downstairs watching "Aliens" again, and I've holed up in the office with some quiet music and a new Solaris installation. Alone time is something I've always needed, although I've gotten a lot less of it since I started dating someone actually local to me and then moved in with him. It's been made even worse by the fact that we both do most, if not all, of our work from home. Up until March, I would actually go into an office most days; now I'm doing contract gigs through my company and doing it almost entirely from home (with the semi-regular sushi lunches, er, staff meetings, with my boss. C. and I are together almost all the time these days because of this, and I think it's starting to get to me a little bit.

[...] A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found
in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

god i'm an addict

eBay, bane of my existence. I just bid $44 for a freakin'CD. In my pseudo-defense, not that I really have one, it *is* a Malice Mizer CD (mmmm, glamboys), which I am totally unable to find in anything approaching the normal spots. HMV Japan has a couple of albums, I think. The not reading Japanese thing makes it kind of hard to be absolutely sure. =) If you happen to know of someplace other than eBay to find anything by these folks, I shall be suitably grateful if you point me at them. Three days left in this auction still, and someone's compulsively outbidding me for it; I outbid him, he outbids me two minutes later, I outbid him for the hell of it, he keeps pushing. Little does he know, apparently, that he's already hit my max with his last bid. Even a compulsive spender like myself can't justify paying any more for this. =)

Back to convincing ssh to install with tcp wrappers support, woohoo?