Today was a slow, relaxing day. I woke up a little late (SLEEP! YES!) and started working on the 'puter. I was trying to get this software I had to see my DVD burner. It wasn't showing up in the destination section. I hate that. Sean had IMed me saying he wanted to go to some stores to get some sale items. I said sure, come on over and we'll hit the stores and he can help me finally pull down my xmas lights. He got here when I was still trying to figure this thing out. I closed all my windows (except the two bathrooms upstairs) and headed out. I'm glad I did, it poured when I was out.

We went to a few places, had lunch, and finally ended up back at home. I bought a 64M USB drive. When I got back, I pulled my truck up on ramps in the garage for an oil change. Left it to cool down, and started to tackle the software again. I finally found on a message board that to get the software to recognize a burner, I have to right-click the drive in the "source" field and select "make this drive a burner". Oh, quite intuitive! Anyway, I also decided to make use of the 25 DVD+RWs I got for $22, and started burning a lot of the stuff sitting on my harddrive. Some of it was on the downstairs computer, on the network via a wireless link. Too slow to transfer data. So, I hooked up my firewire drive, mounted the NTFS partition (this is a Linux box), and tried to copy the data to it. Oops, can't write NTFS. DOH! So, after mulling around a bit, I decided to try the other way around. I formatted the drive as ext2 and made my windows machine read it. So, I got to free up some many gigs.

And I finally got to change my oil, and all is good. Also, had a short chat with Michelle, Stacia, and AnnMarie. Had a bowl of not-so-good popcorn. I'm going to bed early. I wonder what I'm going to do on the holiday now. Ahh, glad I just remembered that I was told to maybe expect a call Mon morning from work, in case the web team runs into trouble starting a new campaign or something. In other words, I need to be available as UNIX help in case the web weenie forgets his password again. This guy has started to prove that he dosen't know what he's doing. The last trouble ticket he opened against the UNIX team was complete nonsense, and untrue. But, I'm not going to get started on this... I wonder what else will come of tomorrow's holiday. I got no plans.