The Mustang has harnesses now! Rob installed black Schroth six point belts on the driver's side and four point ASM belts on the passenger side. I'll get some pictures tomorrow at Infineon.

I was cruising westward on Wilshire in Santa Monica and pulled up next to a black 2001-3 Mustang GT.

Me: Nice car!
Driver: Huh? Oh yeah! Thanks!
Me: What exhaust do you have? Sounds nice!
D: Magnaflows.
Passenger: The question is, what do YOU have?
Me: Bassani with FMS short tube headers.
D: Nice!
P: *presumably notices the roll bar* Holy crap you got some shit up in there!!
Me: *pulling off* Yeah, a little.

"Holy crap you got some shit up in there!"

Haha! That's awesome.

Ok I'm a geek.

I spend a lot of time working with the ravings of a deranged mind Debian Installer. I also like working from home, so I spent some time working out a solution that involves VMWare and NX

So here I am couchsurfing on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, looking out into the garden of the house I'm staying at, running VMWare on a machine in Mountain View, displaying it on a Xen instance physically residing who knows where and connecting to that via NX from my laptop, installing Linux over and over and over and over....

The dogs sure like LA. It's warm. They actually WANT to be outside. Me? I'm too hot. I like (or, rather, am used to) the cooler weather in Pacifica.

Fizzy and Nova are smart too. They knew we were 'home' the moment I pulled up to Scott's house from work last night and they'd only spent one night there.

The house dog, Batz, has been trying to play with them. Problem is, Batz is about eighty pounds of energetic black lab and he's a bit too much for them. Nova tried to make friends with the house cat and was roundly, firmly rebuffed.

Well, the dogs and I have survived our first day in LA.

The mutts have been great so far, even tolerating about seven hours in the Mustang on the drive down. They were a little bit of a challenge at first when we first arrived at the Google office because they wanted to explore, but one of my coworkers showed me a visitor lounge with a door that I can use. It's so nice to see how adaptable and confident they've become, especially Fizzy, though I'm sure that it helps that I've brought along their blankets and treats and toys.

I've been here a day and it's enough to confirm in my mind that the traffic here would be the death of me. The Mustang is behaving so far and it's a kick to have it here, though all things considered I'd rather be in the GTi.

Gemini 2009!



In a word: best. party. evar.

(Why is it that I keep going to parties and still keep saying that? I must be going to the right parties...)