getting better

The project is finally coming together. All the bugs we've found so far seem to be fixed, but now it has to go to another tester for verification, followed by 3 days of verification testing. Bleah. But it's coming together, and I've started work on my next project, which will be a great deal simpler, and implemented in Perl for UNIX, two things which I adore and am very good at.

Also, a friend of mine was recently awarded grants by 3 corporations to start a network security consulting corporation. He's interested in me as a UNIX administration/security consultant, since he mostly deals with web and windows-related security issues. It wouldn't be a full-time thing or an on-site thing, and I certainly don't want to give up my beloved job at F5, but it would be interesting, and I'd learn a *lot*. So that could be cool and exciting.

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...I really love Underworld.

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Feh.

I'm in much too good a mood to want to get on the bus and go home.

I want to go _out_, but I can't.

If I lived in Bellingham, today would be a day I'd go down to the Interurban Trail or Boulevard Park and go for a walk.

*sigh*.

I loathe Kirkland.

more car stuff

Well, I've just talked to some other collision repair places in Bellingham, and they all said:

"You got an estimate from where? Oh, we use the same estimate system as they do -- there won't be more than a hundred dollars' difference."

So I guess that's right out.

Their estimate is for $6200 -- probably be more by the time the repairs would be completed.

Or I can collect the insurance and get a 1996 Concorde for $7000. (I had a 1993.) Weird, eh?

So it looks like my beloved car will be no more. *sad*

But I'll be able to get another one, I'm guessing probably by the end of March. *better*