I saw "The Hurricane" last weekend. Good movie, more of a biography rather than trying to make a statement. I don't know the story behind it, so if the movie seems a little too biased, I can't tell if it's because that's the way it was or not. Good acting by Denzel Washington. An interesting movie, not too much action (only a couple scenes) and they really had to push the nemesis angle to have some sort of bad guy to focus on...

I stayed up until 01:00 helping a coworker set up Apache 1.3.9 with JServ 1.1 on an NT Server. We just couldn't figure out why the JServ module wasn't listening on its port. And we tried reinstalling this and that. Finally we went back to square one, reinstalled everything in fresh folders. And it worked. That's what I was expecting. After three Apache/JServ installations, it either works or you can't get it to work. Just keep reinstalling fresh until it works, that's my opinion...

I got a raise, out of cycle. Bringing up my salary to about average for my position I think. This is like far more money than I'd ever thought I'd make when I graduated. And it's really nice, as now I may be able to hit my financial New Year's Resolutions. There's a point where I'm making so much money that I'm rather disappointed that my assigned projects are doing so badly. Eh...

I started bidding on Ebay again. After like a year and a half of staying away, I was kind of bored and wandered over. Browsed around and bid on like a dozen different items. I don't expect to win more than one or two of them, I have to refrain from turning this into a "I have to win" sort of deal that I did when I was bidding before. One of the things I want to get is a hard drive for my PowerBook. It'd be nice to get something for less than $200. I don't need that much space, just something more than the 2 GB that I currently have.

I only have two X-Men comics left to get to complete the collection. Once again, I blame Shannon for this. It's funny as I look at some of the minimum bids at Ebay. It's like you can buy these items for less at an online store, and not on sale either. As always, you have to be somewhat careful when buying things. Caveat Emptor. I don't remember if Ebay gave you the ability to comment on auctions. I know one of the auction places I went to did. It'd just be nice to say "you can buy it for less here". It's frustrating to think that people will fall for "exclusive" or "rare" items that are commonly available if you know where to look.

I better stop, as I just bid on three more items while writing the last two paragraphs. Check that, four items. I'm such a tool...

My foot still hasn't healed all the way. After two months. Maybe I should have gotten therapy. It's not like it really bothers me too much. Can't run. Climbing stairs is a little harder. Gets kind of stiff after I've been driving or walking a lot. Bad habit of twisting it when I'm sleeping, so when I wake up it's a bit sore. But I can still walk on it. It's not like I'm planning on using this body that much longer anyways...

So the last thought for this entry, this being written a couple of days after since I've fallen behind again, is that I sure have a lot of little stuffed animals on my monitor. Built up over the years. The burro I got when I went to Reno with three friends on a whim. A couple of penguins, a hippo, a turtle, a moose, all from my sister I think. Rarely think about them, even though they're there all the time. Not a very manly image...