I’ve learned to play the basics of ”Wish You Were Here” on the cello. This makes me extremely happy.

Five year plan

June: Pay off business on long-term credit. Get hair taken care of. Garden. Finish all dangling projects for QuickCard and Southwest Aero.

July: Train dad. Maybe get some branch-business going if the plans make sense. Get interconnect with Qwest signed, no matter how sucky. Start finding financing for DSL on Loghill, and in Elk Meadows if possible.

August: Play frisbee lots, get someone to visit. Garden. Work on that motorcycle thing. Improve the billing system to usable for non-geeks. Keep nuking that hair.

September: Install DSL? Improve services as much as possible. Taxes for the business.

October: Party like I’m 24. Visit the west coast? Hopefully start feeling seriously girly.

November: Travel a bit, work a lot.

December: That holiday stuff. Not coming out to family quite yet.

2006

January-April: Keep working. Put in public access terminals. Clean the office to a zen-like cleanliness, find somewhere else to do service work.

May: Go to Europe. Find some reason to call it business.

Build up some money in the bank.

Fall: Hire more people.

2007

Buy land or start spending part of my time in a city. Probably convert completely to DSL. Dialup is dead. Long live dialup.

Be involved so much in the upper end of the business that transitioning doesn’t affect the customer base at all.

2008

Complete transition.

2009

Pick where I want to live and go there.

Of course…

This could change on a moment’s notice if romantic interests show up, weird shit happens or I change my mind.

I made curry last night, and we had Ethan and Eric over to eat it. Dad made nan, and it was really good.

The recipe was something like this

• 1 onion, chopped and fried in oil
• a teaspoon each of cumin, chopped garlic, cayenne pepper, paprika, clove, tumeric, black pepper and salt added and fried gently with the onions
• 3 ounces of tomato paste added and the whole mess blended
• Fry an onion in bigger pieces, a half pound of tofu, a half cup of cashews, a pound of tempeh, a few boiled potatos (cubed), and some chickpeas, then add the sauce and enough water that it’s liquid.

This is really delicious.

Today, I had curry for lunch, just chickpeas in sauce. Also darn good.

I think it’s yakisoba for dinner.

I just created a little script that lets you burn playlists from Rhythmbox easily. This is the sort of thing I’d love to see built into Rhythmbox in the future, or even more so, a clever, simple way to merge scripts like this in so that you can’t tell they’re not core parts of an application.

Anyway, take a look at

Five year plan

• Pay off business,
• convince friends and other good people to work for me in various places, starting up computer repair centers with a bent on customer service,
• travel around from place to place,
• keep home base in Ridgway,
• step back and be the mistressmind behind the curtain.

I have a spoon carved by bluesbodger, a knife made by Ryland, a bowl painted by anandabrat, a bowl and jar made by lightwalker, a bowl brought back from Turkey by rising_dawn, a teapot painted alongside upna, and my cello reminds me of Anna, Guadelupe, the pet tarantula, reminds me of spinspin (but in a silly way).

Cigarrette smoke and cloves will remind me of raijna, for the first time in my life, not a bad association with the smell. So will twelve string guitars.

I miss you all.

Five year plan

• Pay off business.
• buy motorcycle,
• move to Ouray,
• go to Colorado Springs on weekends to get my beard removed,
• finally look like myself at the end of 2006, or early 2006,
• go to Europe in spring of 2006, or maybe fall,
• attend conferences,
• play lots of cello.

Five year plan

• Pay off business,
• hire Dad and Jen,
• go to Portland and to other places often,
• get my hair taken care of there,
• install DSL on Log Hill and in Ridgway,
• invite friends over as much as possible.

Five year plan

• Pay off business,
• hire people to take it over completely,
• buy a motorcycle,
• get an interconnect with Qwest for Oregon,
• move to Portland or thereabouts,
• install DSL somewhere rural near the City.

Five year plan

• Pay off the business,
• rent a second place in a city (Portland comes to mind, and Minneapolis sounds nice),
• spend time in each, doing as much work as I can from each,
• hire Dad to cover the Ridgway end of things while I’m gone.

Five year plan

• Suck the life out of the business, sell it to my competitor, move to the city and do something else for a living.

Five year plan

• Suck the life out of the business, sell it to my competitor and move to Canada or Europe, because the US is getting scary.

Current mood: conflicted

The good guys win for once.

I wish I didn’t have a pathological aversion to telephones.

That the linux kernel 2.6.12 is in release candidate stage makes me very happy. I need inotify support, and I needed it years ago. I hope like crazy the thing is stable.

Things that make Ari happy:

• Painted toenails,
• shaved legs (her own),
• rain, rain most of all,
• good company,
• and good food.

Things that make Ari unhappy:

• Not eating right,
• getting up late,
• having a messy house and messy office,
• not taking breaks,
• and worry about friends.

Things Ari has in her life that help a lot:

• Talking with friends who will be honest,
• time to take a shower, eat some food, and come in to work late,
• her cello,
• and her huge music collection.

My ten favorite smells are:

• Cloves.
• Rain on field grass.
• Yerba maté.
• Roses.
• Green tea.
• Moss.
• Blankets dried in the sun.
• The back of girl necks.
• Lavender.
• Fresh bread.

A bizarre honorable mention now goes to stale cigarrette smoke after being up for 26 hours.

I actually have associations with all of these― Cloves: Carrie, sitting on top of the house. Rain on field grass: Being alone in the cool comforting dark. Yerba Maté: My father. Roses: Robyn, because I could smell them from a distance and she couldn’t. Green tea: The wondermill crowd, and Tessa, and time well spent in BC. Moss: Robyn, by the creek. Blankets dried in the sun: my sister. Girl necks: No comment. Fresh bread: Dawn.

Crosses fingers for a certain someone involved with the Judicial system today.

Thanks alot mossaia, now I am addicted to Belle and Sebastian.

Thanks to notnotrebecca and noam_rion, I’m making a list too.

1. Written system components for a unix operating system in an interpreted language.
2. Written three wikis (soon to be four) and worked on at least five more.
3. Biked sixteen hundred miles.
4. Loved more than one person romantically at once.
5. Lived without water for a month.
6. Ice skated at two in the morning, to the light of christmas lights.
7. Talked to people on six continents at once.
8. Fallen in love with someone without having ever seen them.
9. Sung the Beatles from sheet music before ever hearing a recording of them.
10. Happily woken up at 3 in the morning, and gotten to work.