Since my sister got a new Dell notebook, she has moved to her new desk in her room. She vacated her old desk and PC in the living room. My brother took the PC for himself. I took over the space and cleaned it up. It was a big task. Why do areas around computers (and televisions) have to be magnets for clutter and dirt? The desk, space under and around it was a huge pile of stuff. Uncluttering it created a positive effect on everyone (our house is a cluttered and filthy mess). Now I sit here most of the time instead of my desk in my room, which has degenerated into a dump.
The second monitor is temporary. I put it away when I don’t need it.
It’s been raining on and off, light showers alternating with monsoon-like downpours, for the past few days and I like it. The clouds are moving north at a good pace. The lush green and moisture is why I like the Pacific Northwest.
I spent most of my weekend on two things: transit and CLAMP’s manga/anime.
OMG we now have light rail in Seattle. It’s actually pretty fast even though it’s not what is defined as rail rapid transit but it’s close. The sensation of being accelerated smoothly, strongly and cleanly, the sound of steel on steel (steel is real!) and zooming past cars on MLK is simply wonderful. Ridership was good on a Saturday with people getting on and off at every station and trains decently used, and no they weren’t Husky fans for the evening’s game just regular people. It’s been nearly 3 months since Central Link light rail opened and it still feels like day one. I can ride this thing all day, everyday, much to the detriment of whatever I’m supposed to be doing.
Riding the 255 bus home that evening with mother and sisters, we saw a lot of lost and confused people. Some were trying to get to the Husky game. The driver’s sign was correct but people thought the bus was going to Husky Stadium. Idea! Route map that lists every stop. I like the design of the Paris bus line maps. I did something like that before but I wasn’t satisfied so I began work one that was more complete. I was already working on one for route 36 so it wasn’t hard to start. I spent all of Saturday night on that.
Then came CLAMP with the animated debut of Kobato, their latest series. Hanato Kobato has a wish and to fulfill that wish she must fill a bottle with scarred hearts by healing those people. A strange and clumsy kind-hearted girl, she comes to earth with Ioryogi, who protects and guides her on her mission. He looks like a blue stuffed toy dog and is actually short-tempered and foul-mouthed (and can shoot fire out his mouth when he’s angry).
Also, the final chapter, the epilogue, of CLAMP’s Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle was published earlier this week bringing a close to Syaoran, Sakura, Fai and Kurogane’s multidimensional adventure. Or is it? To find out the true ending and what happens, we’ll have to read xxxHolic which continues. Which means I gotta catch up on my xxxHolic but before that I need to finish more important things and get back to work.
I think I might have found a bug in Snow Leopard. In Mac OS X, you can set it to require a password after an amount of time or immediately after the screen saver starts or your Mac goes to sleep. This morning I shut my MacBook’s lid and then unplugged my iPod, causing it to wake-up briefly before going back to sleep. I just woke up my Mac to find the password dialog with my desktop visible. Normally, you’d see a black background. To my surprise I could interact with my Mac normally while the password dialog is still open. Clicking Cancel just puts it back to sleep. Waking it up again brings me back to the desktop with password dialog.
