I think I finally feel well again. After gaming Saturday I was feeling quite awful. A long, though not great, night's sleep and when I woke up Sunday I had a bit of a headache and some aches, but I felt a lot better. For some reason I decided to move some things around in my apartment and by that night I was feeling not too good again. Then I started coughing. That hacking cough that makes every cough feel like your lungs are on fire.

But Monday morning at least it felt better. I was still coughing but at least it didn't hurt as much. I called in sick since I didn't want to push my luck again, then I remodeled some more. New Year's eve was uneventful. I stayed at home not feeling great and watched the ball drop on Times Square (tape delayed of course) on MTV. I got a lot of reading done and went to sleep at 02:00. Now it's Tuesday night and I feel 90% Still a little achy but not more than usual I think.

I think what's helped is the remodeling I did. It's amazing how nice a home looks when you've cleaned up and moved things around to make it less cluttery. Now I have all my Star Trek stuff in one area, all the wargames and military books in another area, BattleTech has its own bookcase, and all my to-read novels are ordered on a shelf. I put away the card table, moved the Sweet VCR off the floor, moved my dresser to the side of the room. Not much more empty space, but it looks much nicer. You know, I need another bookcase that can hold big books, not just paperbacks.

Boy, my place gets quite dusty. Sure, I don't dust at all, so I guess having spots with layers of dust is not unusual. But even where I do dust it gets dusty again before you know it. Obviously, I just don't have enough experience dusting otherwise I would know that dust collects quickly, hence why maids dust every week on television.

As I was rearranging stuff around, I was thinking "I sure have a lot of Dave and Julie's things here". VCR, Thales, a rope ladder, Dragonstrike game, Fortress America game, plus the fondue and rotisserie sets which although mine are gifts they gave me so I blame them for those too. I also have a lot of empty boxes taking up space, which I suppose I could move to my storage closet next to my car. But I don't really think of the storage closet as mine since it's not in my apartment.

My web server was crashing constantly a month ago. After some diagnostics, it seems that the Pictorious Internet Server is freezing the whole machine. Sigh, too much to expect out of a very old program. So I'm not running it which means that I'm not serving up any video files, the only thing I was using it for.

This has changed my plan. When I get the iMac back from Michael, I will install Mac OS X and turn it into my next server. Apache is much more stable and the iMac is a relatively fast machine, though not extremely loaded with memory. But since I'm just running background server tasks, memory should not be that much of a problem.

Ok, so the plan now is to give my mom the old PowerBook. It has a serial port so she can use the printer with it. The built in LCD is not really larger than a 13" monitor and it has a higher DPI so maybe it might strain her eyes. I can turn the resolution down to 800x600 but then the picture is a bit fuzzy. We'll see.

I can then take the Performa and use that as an emergency server and scanning station. And I still throw away my ancient PowerMac. That'll leave me with three 13" monitors, so I should toss at least one of them. I'll still have Dave's USB serial port adapter so that he can use it for connecting to Thales in console mode.