Updates

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Hmm, been a while since I've posted here.

Assorted updates, in no particular order:

  • Handyman guy is very close to being completely done with work on my house. I'm very pleased with his work; I'd have been a little more pleased if it had gone faster, but I'll settle for quality over speed in almost any context.
  • Having trouble getting in touch with recommended person to clean the place before I move in. Also getting in touch with recommended movers. Current plan: I pack for the next week and a half, then move the weekend of the 22nd. But a lot depends on movers' availability.
  • Have been pleased this past week or so to have been getting plenty of sleep for once, but of course was awakened at 6:30 by loud cars again this morning, sigh.
  • For perhaps the first time ever, I've got four future weeks' worth of fiction completely edited and ready to go, and two more in progress. Hope I can push on and get even further ahead in the next few weeks; I'd ideally like to be at least eight weeks ahead. But given that I've never been more than four weeks ahead, I should probably settle for baby steps.
  • Watched a bunch of movies lately. In addition to the already-mentioned Royal Tenenbaums and Bamboozled, in the past few days I've seen:
    • The Red Violin
    • Fantasia 2000
    • The Matrix Revolutions
  • I seem to have neglected to mention here that Tim and Heather accepted an article of mine (on prescriptivism, descriptivism, and editing) for Flytrap; from what I've heard of the other material they've accepted, I expect to be in good company.
  • Mary Anne's and my collaboration proceeds, though slowly. I gotta go work on that shortly, before I get too sleepy.
  • Had a bizarre minor adventure with an ATM this past weekend. Short version: the ATM at the main branch of my bank ate my card on Sunday night. Monday morning I went in to find out what was up, and they returned the card to me with a shrug, as if to indicate that there was nothing particularly unusual about the situation. They said there was nothing wrong with my account, and the card now seems to work, so I guess it was just a fluke. Still, I would expect someone at the bank to at least pretend to be concerned about this kind of thing.
  • Panther (a.k.a Mac OS X version 10.3) is working pretty well for me, with a few notable exceptions.
  • I have all sorts of articles and tidbits to point to, but they'll have to wait for another entry, 'cause I'm getting sleepy and I still have some fiction to write tonight.

2 Responses to “Updates”

  1. Will

    Which notable exceptions (to Panther) are you refering to?

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  2. Jed

    I knew someone would ask that, but I didn’t have time to elaborate. A couple of issues:

    Safari now contains a bug that causes it to sometimes close an entire set of tabs (instead of just the frontmost window) when I type Command+W. This is a Big Pain.

    The Classic environment seems to sometimes get out of control after a certain amount of inactivity—grows to take up 80% of CPU, won’t stop when you tell it to stop, have to force-quit it. (This is after I’ve quit the only Classic app that was running.)

    iChat AV now apparently requires a whole long list of ports to be forwarded through my router’s firewall if you want audio or video chat to work; I haven’t figured out how to do all the specific forwards required yet. I can probably work this out over time, but it’s annoying—the public beta just worked.

    I had a lot of trouble setting up VPN, but that seems to mostly work now. Though still can’t seem to connect to fileservers via VPN.

    Am still running into places where I need to re-import old preferences and such; not Panther’s fault, obviously, but still occasionally impeding work.

    …On the positive side, one feature that’s already become fully integrated into my workflow is the keyboard shortcut editor—or rather, a particular keyboard shortcut that I’ve created for a command I use all the time that I used to have to go to a menu for. I’m very pleased with that. There’s plenty else to like, too, of course, but I think that keyboard shortcut is the thing I run into most often.

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