Sick Day

Bleh. Sick Days sux0r. When my alarm went off this morning, my head felt like a rotten watermelon: heavy, squishy, and stuffed full of uncomfortable goo. I decided that I should prolly sleep it off and opt against classes... now I've slept to the point that my body doesn't want to sleep anymore and am bored +2. I'm hepped up on allergy prescription stuff, and am trying to be outside... I've heard that sometimes sunlight helps to break up congestion, so I'm posting live from my deck. Speaking of the deck, I don't think I've ranted about my apartment yet. I love it. I'm fairly close to school (5-10 min drive in heay traffic) yet far enough away that I feel like it's actually my home. We have about 1000 sq. feet here, split between myself and my roommate. We spent a little extra money when we were furnishing it to make it a very comfortable place to exist. Maybe I'll get some pictures and post them here... Anyhoos, I was going to talk about my work on the PocketPC--- I need a hammock. I wonder how much they cost? The deck faces to the north and is covered so its a nice shady place to relax, a hammock here would be perfect. What was I saying? Oh yes, the pocketPC. My attention span is shorter than usual... I think the alergy stuff is making me drowsy... sleep sounds good... *ahem* Yes, on the PocketPC I formatted it again but this time I decided to try out "Opie," the qt-based palmtop environment that is an option wen installing Familiar (the linux distribution for the Ipaq). This is even better than "GPE," (the gnome-based environment I was using) It's far prettier as far as eye-candy goes, quite a bit more robust, and still linux. I've also spent time messing around with the infrared ports both on the Ipaq and the slacktop (my laptop). I haven't been able to get them to notice each other yet, but with a little bit of time, I can now control TV's, VCR's and the like from the comfort of either the Ipaq or Slacktop. This new wave of automation is inspiring new and silly ideas about voice-controlled homes. I had a shady version of voice control working before, and I am aware of various (more advanced) projects that exist seeking the same end. If I could hook up an infrared transmitter on the muzakbox (the old machine I threw together to hook up to the TV so we could get my 400Watt THX certified speaker set working with movies...) and get voice control working properly, we could start the tv and other various things by vocal commands... That would be cool. But not right now... I'm thnking of slinking back to sleep before Marching Band. I should be fine to march later, not that I really want to stomp around in my current state, but we have a lot of work to do for the next two weekends and while I can handle missing classes and forcing myself to play catch-up, we have a trumpet sectional tonight and I don't want to let down the entire section. So I'm going. Whee. I've been promising screenshots of things, so here you go. This is the current set-up on the slacktop. I'm currently using EvilWM as my windowmanager of choice. ...OK. Maybe not... this doesn't seem to want to work with me right now. I'll get them up somehow... later. -Dave.