JeffJournal

I finally got my muffler replaced yesterday.

That was $140 I didn't want to spend. Ugh!!

A series of random thoughts:

• Getting my muffler fixed (actually, it's the pipe between the engine and the muffler, hence it wasn't covered by the warranty) and running a bunch of Christmas errands took a good portion of my day yesterday.

• I talked to Darrell on the phone and found out that his parents live just a few miles from Tracy's parents down in Florida. It's a small fricken' world!

• I love the ability to track my UPS packages on the web.

• For those of you who keep bugging me, yes, I did screw up on a previous journal entry -- I meant to say class B/C networks in the entry about DSL and MS's internet connection sharing, not class C/D. It was late, and I was tired when I wrote that entry.

• Turns out that MS netmeeting doesn't work between two different private networks. i.e., from my 'doze box behind my router (which has a 192.168 address) to another box behind a different router (which also has a private IP address, perhaps of the 192.168 variety). It's not a shortcoming of netmeeting itself, per se, it's a shortcoming of the underlying protocol -- H323. Bummer. However, with a special H323 NAT module in the IP masquerading stuff in Linux, you can do a netmeeting between my private windoze box and somewhere else directly on the net -- as long as the box on the private net is the one who initiates the call -- which is quite handy.

• I wrote a schload of Christmas cards yesterday (will send them today) along with our obligatory Christmas letter. I'll post it here in a few days; gotta wait for people to get the snail mail version first. :-)

• I wonder what it would be like to own an elephant.

• Darrell has a great picture of his decorated house at http://christmas.kresge.com/. Isn't running your own DNS cool?

• Louisville has gotten 3 snowfalls of about 2 inches each. Each one has sent the city into a panic. It's quite funny to watch.

• Lummy and I are fixin' to go to Madison to meet with the Condor folks in early February. I sent some dates up to Erik, and he's checking into it.

• Progress on poggenc is coming along swimmingly.
  

That's about it. Back to coding. Mmmm.... coding....