Even now, I find myself yawning again. But I think I had better execrise at least some degree of discipline here. Otherwise, I will find it near impossible to get to bed tonight, causing even more difficulty tomorrow.

As expected, I went and picked up my new phone yesterday. Happily, the sales people quickly retrieved it, made contact with Verizon (which involved the quaint, charming sound of an analog modem handshake), and said I was activated and ready to go, but that I should go home charge it all the way up before putting it to use.

I'm still finding myself slightly baffled as to how these people manage to make any profit off of this. For a 1 cent phone, this thing has got some pretty damn nice features. And $20/month... That's nothing. Land lines typically cost more than that! Maybe they'll figure I'll like it so much that I'll start exceeding my 75 minutes each month, and have to pay per minute charges. I'm doubtful that that will happen. Not very often, at least.

Yesterday, after getting my phone, along with a nice new bottle of melatonin on the way home, I plugged it in, started poking buttons, did a little rtfm, and learned how to operate it. Then, I promptly turned out the lights and spent most of the afternoon unconscious. (No melatonin involved.)

For the evening, we ordered chinese food, which I picked up, and rented a movie on the way. Mom joined me in watching Erin Brockovich. Good movie. See associated entry.

She went to bed, but I stayed up much later watching the special features. Didn't think it would take that long, but there turned out to be quite a lot of material there. Anyway, I think I finally went down at around 0130. By then I was too tired to type an entry.

I woke up around 0900, crawled out of bed, and did a little web surfing. Went back to bed. Slept an hour or two. Rinse and repeat. A couple more times. I don't think I exited my room to take a shower until after 1230. Weekend sleep rocks.

I spent a little time this afternoon with various odds and ends. Updated my woody, and installed the gnucash .deb, plus dependencies, on Argo. DSL. Gotta love that! 19 megs, and it's just... zap. Everything is downloaded, installed, and ready to go. No waiting.

I migrated my old financial info from Dagobah, which has been running gnucash 1.3, to the new 1.4 stable version on Argo. No apparent conversion or compatibility problems that I could detect. Very slick.

Spent a little time cleaning up the clutter which spontaniously seems to populate my room and breeds incessantly if I don't take an active role in controlling it.

Then I went about typing my movielog entry, and just as I was near finishing, Mozilla pulled a Netscape 4 on me, and crashed without warning.

strings /proc/kcore | grep --before-context=50 --after-context=50 "fucking neck" > /root/results

Of course, Mozilla had to make things harder on me by not storing the entire entry in contigous memory, as NS4 used to do. So I had to try to remember words or phrases from each paragraph, grep for them, and extract what I could. I got most of it. The rest, I just had to fudge or do over.

In theory, Mozilla should start getting more stable in M18, since all the developers are now working on bug fixing, performance improvements, and stability, instead of adding more new features. We'll see. Right now, I'd estimate that its stability for me is similar to NS4. That's not good. For many, this browser represents the galaxy's last best hope for freedom. Let us hope for the sake of all humanity that they succeed.

I'm gonna chill now.