I enjoy bjournalling, and I'd like to discipline myself back into
regular updates. They say a habit becomes ingrained after 30 days of
repetition, so, starting today, I'm plannning an update a day for the
next 30 days. If they
are right, they days after that will take
care of themselves.
I'm looking forward to getting out of town for a few days. Barbara and I are headed to Milwaukee for a long weekend. In preparation, I purchased a GPS Navigation System, and dropped the car off for an oil change. (Unfortunately, that means I didn't cycle to work this morning.)
The Nav System was something we'd debated about since getting one with the rental car while we were in Oregon and Washington. We loved having one, but when we got home, we decided we really don't travel by care enough for it to be worth the cost. I broke down because I found a really good deal, and GPS is so freaking cool. I'm still in the phase where you go around with it, programming in destinations that you already know how to get to because it's so freaking cool.
I've been asked, why TomTom instead of Garmin? The answer TomTom runs Linux and uses open source software. I wanted to give my money to the company operating on the side of openness.
Planning Commission tomorrow, preceded by a briefing on the proposed lighting standards.
Oh, and this is freakishly awesome.
I neglected to get my hair cut, so I'll be the shaggy-looking member of the Planning Commission at our hearing tomorrow. With only two agenda items, it looks to be a relatively short meeting. No findings of blight or anything located in a flood plain.
The ride home was chilly, but pleasant enough. Gloves are going to be the most critical article of cold weather gear, I think. I was surprised by a couple of joggers on the Rock Island Trail dressed all in black. Seems like a bad idea; there are some really dark spots along the trail, like below Sheridan and by the zoo.
Planning Commission makes it difficult/inconvenient for me to ride my
bike tomorrow. Using the word inconvenient
sure makes that an
uncomfortable statement...
I've got comments displaying again, so the comment form can't be far behind. After that, maybe the feeds, maybe a pyblosxom-based microblog. That could actually be as simple as a separate directory with its own rss-only flavour. I'm not sure about dedicating one file to each microblog entry though. How many previous blurts are anyone interested in reading? (I realize there's a big assumption here...)
I should get comments working again, and wait for answers to come rolling in.