The little kitten we found? The threats paid off: she’s got a home now. After four offers to adopt the little girl rolled in on Friday, we took her to the best, closest, most immediate offer. She’s now got a pair of people and a sibling-cat, so, presumably, all is well in the world o’ …
Category Archives: Charlottesville
Damn Sprint.
I pay $10/month in order to have a static IP address for my Sprint DSL. The idea behind this is that I can host servers here at home, and the address will be constant, such that people going to websites (like this one, or, say, vafamilyvalues.org, my new site) will always be able to get …
Found: One Kitten.
Amber and I found a kitten in a ditch while driving north of Charlottesville this evening, on Polo Grounds Road. It’s little, orange, and mewly. We pulled over as soon as we saw her, and she dashed under the car, climbing up and into the shocks. After prying her out, we shopped her around to …
Greedy ol’ teachers…
“It’s never enough for them. They’re never satisfied. Their priority is not the children of Virginia. Their priority is money.” — Del. John J. Welch III, R-Virginia Beach, speaking of the Virginia Education Associations request for a five percent pay raise when the governor is offering three percent. From Commonwealth Commonsense. Ravin’ McRaven, …
Valentine Michael Smith.
It’s strange being back in Charlottesville, it now being nearly two weeks since I moved back from Blacksburg, completing my 16 months there. I’m so used to not being in Charlottesville that moving back not to downtown, but just outside of town, has resulted in my spending all of my time at home: chopping wood, …
Moving complete.
It’s shortly after midnight on Sunday. We spent today (Saturday, yesterday, whatever) moving, of course. Everything went just as we’d planned. It was a group effort, of course, but it came off just fine. The U-Haul is filled, the house is packed with Amber’s and my combined possessions, and the move of the servers from …
Moving tomorrow.
The U-Haul’s (partly) packed. We’re leaving in the morning. The new IP is 208.33.154.66. Here’s hoping it all works.
Server down.
My servers are going to be down on Saturday, since I’ll be moving. If everything goes perfectly, everything will work again on Saturday night. It won’t, though, so downtime may last a few days. This doesn’t include cvillenews.com, but it does include lists.waldo.net, Curfew.Org, radioessays.com, and this site, among other lesser-trafficked websites.
We’re just smarter in Charlottesville.
Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Director John Halliday mailed me a copy of the library’s new Five Year Plan last week, since I used to be a member of the Board of Trustees. There’s a lot to be excited about, but the best bit is to be found right up front, on page two of the 27-page …
Try the veal.
I heard a great joke today. Q: If you find a Virginia Tech graduate on your doorstep, how do you get rid of him? A: Pay for the pizza. Actually, I heard it the other way around (“If you find a UVa graduate…”), but it’s really just not funny that way.