Spent about 7 hours working on the final preparations for the trip to Chicago. I arrived at 11am and left at 6:15pm but we still weren’t done. The reason I left was to go to a pool party (in both the swimming and cue stick senses) which made for an entertaining evening. I only participated in the dry version and played remarkably well if I do say so myself. I think the secret to my success lies in the fact that I play far too much Yahoo pool.

My theory is that it allows me to get used to the physics behind pool. I’ve learned where the ball goes when I hit it and I have successfully converted that knowledge into practice on a real pool table. I also played a bit of ping pong which is entertaining if my opponent is at a similar skill level (he was). When I get a house, a pool table will be high on the list of items to purchase. Getting a ping pong table is less of a priority since it’s not as easy to play alone, but I would like to get one eventually.

I recently learned about an extremely useful Linux utility called watch. It allows you to watch a command being run at a specified interval and makes it very easy to monitor the growth of a file or to see when a file’s contents have changed. Get it, use it, love it.

I don’t know what my internet access will be like next week while I’m in Chicago, so entries will probably be less frequent. I’m sure that this will pose a serious threat to your daily entertainment so instead of moping about due to the absence of my witty commentary, I thought I’d suggest a few things for you to do while I’m away.

Things to do while you languish in utter despondency