Lazy Saturday.. Why is it that sometimes I feel so singularly unmotivated? I have plenty of constrcutive to semi-constructive things I could be doing, but I'm not really doing anything.
And now the news.
My knee still hurts, but I think it's on the mend. If I don't shower for a couple of days, it should scb up pretty well. Yesterday I had it covered all day, but it healed to the "non-stick" pad, so when I ripped it off, it took all of my skin with it. Hurt like hell, started to bleed again. It's always the stupid injuries that last the longest and hurt the worst. Yes, I did this trying to be fancy on my rollerblades, doing some kind of weird disco move. I wish I could say I did it hopping onto a mean rail slide or a triple misty with a flying squirrel, but it just ain't so. It's a doofus injury.
Thursday night Oxygen had it's 2nd anniversary party. Billed as a star-studded event, it ended up being a fairly crowded party with an open bar. I have no complaints about the open bar, and actually none about the party in general. They kept all the famous people upstairs and us losers downstairs, but it was probably better that way. I got to hang out with my friends and drink (a lot) for free. The music was decent too, when I noticed it. India Arie played, and we got shushed by some of her fans. Oprah, Gerry and Paul Allen did make an appearance downstairs, up on the stage. Everyone clapped, and they probably felt popular and powerful, and well, they are. Then they went back upstairs.
Oh, Candace Bergen walked right by me (on her way upstairs) at one point too.I basked in her reflected glory.
I ordered the parts to upgrade Betty. Soon she'll be a screaming beast, sitting here doing mostly nothing. The plan is to later get some recording equipment to take advantage of her new found muscle. I resisted ponying up for Saturday delivery, so I should have the stuff Monday. Of course, given my level of activity today, maybe I should have ponied. Pony.
Or, I could be working on actually having some songs to record once the above mentioned setup is set up. But that wouldn't be my style.
**warning - geeky**
I installed a mail server on here yesterday and changed over the DNS stuff, but it's driving me crazy. It all seems to work, and I'm able to send mail, and, intermittently, receive it. The problem is in the receiving. Sending mail to [email protected] seems to work, the messages don't bounce or anything, but my server doesn't seem to do anything for quite a while. At first I thought it was only working once when the mail server started up, and then nothing. I restarted it, and it worked once, then nothing. Then I sent 4 messages and went out for a while. When I got back, the messages had been delivered, but the connections to my server happened almost an hour after I had sent the messages. I sent some more about 2 hours ago and nothing.
Ah ha!! A clue. I sent some messages from my oxygen account, and I just received "message delayed" mail. It says "last attempt failed because can't connect to host".. I wonder why that is. The server is running, sitting here listening for connections. It's possible it's a DNS issue, and the changes I made haven't fully propogated across the Internet yet. But that doesn't seem right, because if it got old DNS info, it would deliver it to the old server at register.com, which would then be forwarded to my hotmail account.
Oh yeah, it's frustrating.
**end geeky**
Sorry, that was mostly me just talking to myself. If anyone is a smarty mail serer type and knows what's up, let me know. But you should probably not do so by mailing [email protected] because who knows if I'll ever get it. Maybe I'll watch a movie.
