Good weekend.
Yesterday, we went into Boston for the day. Bought a rug at the furniture outlet Crate n’ Barrel. God damn nice stuff is expensive. $250 for a 6′ by 9′ wool rug. Sheesh. It goes with the grown up furniture in the dining room though. Slowly but surely building sets of furniture that we won’t have to throw away if we ever strike it rich.
Spent a couple of hours at the Museum of Fine Arts. Great place. Their musical instrument room is something special, and the rest of the collections are pretty darn nice too. We wound up purchasing the cat sculpture pictured here. We’ve ogled it over the years, and finally had some dedicated gift money for art. It’s happily in a niche by the fireplace now.
Then went to see the Boston Baroque do Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and J.S. Bach’s “Magnificat”, both in D major. Amazing, wonderful stuff, all on period instruments. We even attended the lecture before the concert, in which some of the players explained their instruments and how they’ve evolved over the years. Drove the hour home fueled by a double expresso. Amazing how the stuff totally kicks in now when I want it.
Today was more mundane. Moved plants into larger pots (roma tomatoes, basil, oregano, chives, and an early jalapeno). Then we spent about 2 hours trying to find a tall but thin bookshelf. We have a space that’s 25 inches wide, which really needs to be made use of. Finally found it at an Office Depot.
Tomorrow, software install at a major pharmaceutical. Should be smooth, except that they have this idea for a customization which will be tricky. Usually, all our stuff runs as the web user (being CGI driven). They want to SetUID all the CGI scripts, and thus run the jobs on the cluster as a designated user. I’ve touched most aspects of the system, and this is the one which, more than any other, if you touch it…things break in subtle and complex ways. Ungh.
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