"Get ... the COMFY CHAIR!!!"

[unixronin]

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"  But it's not due to them that I have a comfortable office chair again, it's thanks to Costco.  My feet now lightly touch the floor instead of my knees being raised off the edge of the chair, I'm looking straight at my monitor instead of just up enough at it to give me a stiff neck, and my forearms are parallel to the desktop instead of inclined across the edge.  Plus, of course, now I can just swivel around between babylon5's and vorlon's keyboard, instead of having to physically pick up the [shaky, loose at the joints] chair and scoot it around.

I also acquired a nice pot-bellied cast-iron teapot, finished rebuilding my balky disk array as a plain stripe again (having had performance issues with Solaris' software RAID5), have a full backup running, wrote some Perl code, learned some odd quirks about file copying to and from Windows¹, got checks deposited in the bank, and ... hmm.  What else?  I have a feeling there's something else... Oh, yes, I have my paperwork for New Hampshire walking-disability plates for when I go to see my new doctor on Thursday now that we're insured again.

What I did NOT manage was to attend either of the planned rider gatherings this week in memorial of Andy Bell, a local rider killed in Connecticut last weekend by a Volvo-driving woman who turned left directly in front of him.  I wasn't expecting to make the ride to the Cape today (apart from anything else, I don't know yet if I can manage a ride of that distance with my foot in the shape it is), but I'd hoped to make the gathering at MotoMarket in Acton Thursday night.  As it was, though, the way timing worked out on various, it just didn't happen.  I didn't personally know Andy, but all the same.  I feel a bit like I've failed an obligation.

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[1]  The first thing, not a big surprise, is that copying files from a Samba server to local disk on a Windows machine is several times faster using cp -av in a cygwin Xterm than by dragging on the desktop.  The second is that the threading of cygwin and win32 produces some very visually disconcerting results, with events that are expected to be strictly serial actually often occurring in parallel².  The third was that although copying from Samba TO Windows was about three times faster using cp -av than using the Windows GUI, when copying BACK from Windows to the Samba server, GUI click-and-drag was about five times faster than cp -av.

[2]  The command was 'for f in * ; do if [ ! -d /cygdrive/c/minbar/$f ] ; then cp -av $f /cygdrive/c/minbar/ ; fi ; done'.  You'd normally expect each directory to be copied in turn, wouldn't you?  Guess again.  At times this had as many as five cp processes running at once, copying five directories in parallel.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Hey, we can make you a great deal on a set of four chairs. :)

They don't swivel, and they need new seat-cushion foam, and they really need refinishing, and the frames need some tightening .... well, actually, probably not worth the trouble to move them from NH to MD. But I still love the fabric. It reminds me of one of my conspicuous-consumption antique haori.