I've been rather lax in posting updates about what's going on lately, but here's a brief summary.

Last week, mom informed me that she is moving out of her apartment, and into a new one down the street. She asked me if I wanted to move into the new one with her, or if I was going somewhere else. I said I'd let her know ASAP.

Tomorrow, I journey to Lincoln for the next great Megafest. Among the planned activities, a viewing of Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Good times.

Next week, I'll be hanging out in Lincoln, where I shall see what the job market there looks like. Depending on what I find, I'll either make arrangements to relocate eastward, or journey back to Colorado. But in either event, all the stuff in mom's apartment needs to be moved somewhere by mid-June. (Not sure on the exact deadline yet.) I would, of course, prefer that this be somewhere other than the new apartment into which she is moving, but we'll see.

To that end, I have been spending the past few days getting all my stuff into a mode of readiness for departure; if necessary, I want to be able to return to town, load everything into a truck (the size of a pickup would probably be ideally suited to my current crop of junk boxes plus small furniture, but a small moving truck would work too), and be out in the span of an afternoon. This task actually hasn't been nearly as daunting as it was in prior moves, partly because the past couple years have helped me shed many excess materials, and partly because much of it was never completely unpacked. I still think I have too much stuff though. One day at a time.

To make it even more fun, X13 may or may not be "launching" another exciting "thing" right at this very moment. I'm not holding my breath though. Don't laugh too hard.

Ok, I guess really, that's about it.

Oh, another tidbit. My dad has been trying to upgrade his iMac to Tiger. It gives him some of the most bizarrely non-descriptive errors every time he tries to run the install program. "Errors occurred while installing the upgrade." The Apple support people told him he'd need to wipe the drive and install it from scratch. So now we're backing up his files.

I am probably one of the most Mac-illiterate people on the planet. When he asks me for help, I look it over, puzzle over the damn thing, and curse the name of Steve Jobs every time I try to right click on something before my subconscious mind remembers. No, this is a Mac. There is no right mouse button. You have to hold down the Command key on the keyboard while clicking to achieve the expected effect.

,p> But I'll say one thing for it: The path to bliss lies in Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal. Once that is done, everything is (almost) like /home. Except it's /Users. Yeah, whatever.

tar zcvf /var/tmp/bkinder.tar.gz /Users/bkinder

See, Macs are easier to use than Windows. But they still haven't quite caught up with Linux. (Maybe when du on the Mac learns to accept the -h option without spitting out errors, I'll deem it "ready for the desktop.")

Anyway, I suppose at some point in the near future, I'll be shutting down Argo to load it into Tobias. I'd like to get a semi-early start in the morning, but that really just means I'll be lucky if I make it out of town by early afternoon. That's how these things go.