So, I now have a wireless AP in my apartment. It's a Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router. Naturally, it does 802.11g, and it was, surprisingly, the same price as the plain Wireless-G access point. Initially, I was disappointed with how poor the signal strength it had was -- someone nearby, whose AP I leeched off of last night, had a stronger signal, despite my being right next to the thing. Then I came back tonight, and did a firmware upgrade (for other reasons), and the signal strength went WAY up. Go figure :) I guess the moral of the story is that for relatively new hardware, firmware upgrades are a good thing to do, even if it's not obvious why. Oh, and as an added bonus, according to this site, it's possible to do all sorts of cool hacks on this particular unit. I had no idea that this particular model alone was the right one for this kind of thing -- I guess I lucked out in not getting the Wireless-G or the other Linksys units there...

So, today I was at Coffee Tree, and found out that a friend is going through a rough time in life. Then, another set of recent acquaintances were talking about various aspects of the wedding they had planned, but had postponed indefinitely. It might be that she's planning to join the military for awhile, and doesn't want a commitment during that time. Still, kind of a bummer for him, I imagine. I know I'd be unable to deal with a chosen's desire to be free of the commitment of a relationship, just for awhile, with the expectation of things resuming later.

OpenBSD 3.4 is due soon. Apparently, they've excised a number of GNU tools from the system, replacing them with BSD tools. Interesting, but kind of pointless unless they want to make their own gcc. Speaking of which, it still has an old gcc. Oh well. Maybe once I get a replacement DSLmodem, I'll upgrade my firewall to 3.4. I wonder what new music they'll have for 3.4..

It's only during moments of lucidity that you notice you're insane. When I'm tired enough, I think odd thoughts, but I only notice them during the brief periods of being fully awake...