Sunday Thoughts and Memories

Often Sundays arrive on my doorstep and its a relaxing kind of day.  The weather here in the SF Bay area has not been nice until recently.  But now?  Good grief!!  Its in the 70s and clear skies.  Beer drinking weather on the back porch I declare.  Many of the Sundays I spend here I try not to engage in meaningful work exercises because everyone needs a day to not do that and I often spend 6 days per week engaged.  Today my daughter had the desire to go to Red Lobster for lunch so off we went.  She likes the Ultimate Feast which is enough food for a hungry adult; but she is 7 and can eat all of it as well.  The waiter just watched in amazement and appreciation.  I like to watch her eat as well.  As kids can be exact opposites, our son is very picky and will not eat things that seem different, not crunchy.  Its a challenge to do a Sunday dinner out with him since many of the restaurants we would go to normally are restricted or even off-limits.

I often spent part of the day wondering over how APM and ACPI either work or don’t work on Linux.  On desktops and servers we really don’t care; but a laptop is a “portable computer”.  That means it can travel to new places and easily start working again.  I have to say on Linux this is still a bit challenging.  On newer laptops I’ve used like the IBM Thinkpad T40, ACPI works like a charm.  But my current crop of Pentuin III 1.1 ghz laptops are not so lucky.  The Dell Inspiron 4100 will not do ACPI and the Thinkpad T23 will not do APM.  So part of this morning was spent trying to get APM on Fedora Core 5 to actually suspend the laptop when I closed the lid.  The fault turned out to be in the DRI module.  I removed that from loading in my xorg.conf file and all was working again.  But then I muddled with the bios settings.

Warning, Warning!!

Do not do that if you really want to get yet another thing working that may rely on certain bios settings.

Next I went back to looking at what “tags” or categories I selected on this weblog entry.  Not enough since I was talking this and that.  I perhaps need a “everything else” category on Wordpress.  I can use that one when my ideas do not link to any of the 7 or 8 I currently own up to.  But really who really cares if I post to any categories?  I used to think categories were important, but…  WAIT!  Now I need to add another category.  Weblogs!

Okay…  I’ll resist the temptation to post anything on current events, uncategorized, or views or anthropology this time.  Man… This owning a weblog is shure difficult.  Categories pin me down too much I think.  I tend to shift each time across my spectrum.  Perhaps I’ll select the categories after I write my blogpost.  How do you guys do it?  Select a category first?  Then read it later and say… WTF was I thinking?

Anyways, this one is all done for now.  I won’t even discuss edting or updating it since the  would need to add more “tags”.  I have resisted the temptation to use Technorati Tags since I don’t view this blog as contributing much to the galactic whole.  Its more my repressed thoughts, subterfuges, and whatever the Hell else I decide to call it.