So much to do and so little time,
I am always running behind.
She stays ahead, with an encouraging smile,
I never realize it's her cunning guile.
She brings each day, a promise new,
Opens up a window, a different view.
It takes me more time, only to realize,
The promises stack up, schedules don't resize.
Is there a place where you can buy some time?
All the more better if you get a day for a dime!

winter => more sleepy days?

Am I not having enough sleep or just need more sleep?

Btw I had my first snow the day before yesterday. Simply fantastic! Esp if you have never seen the skies pouring anything but water so far in your life. Did all those silly things like catching the snowflakes on tongue. It was fun ... !
In fact that day was really a good day. After the morning meeting, went home and had a nice nap(!) for 2 hrs, then played some guitar. The evening greeted me with the first snowfall of my life!!!

Just another day at umd. Outside it's beautiful. Leaves have started putting on their fall colors. It's cold but it's beautiful. Today I saw umd as it is shown in the website picture, with all red in the background.

========= Birthday Stats =========

It was my Birthday on 21st jun. Just out of interest I decided to keep a log of various ways people wished me.
Ok ok there might be some repetition and it might not be very accurate ...
but what the heck statistics was never my strong point anyways ;)

here goes ...

Cell phone calls - 12
SMS - 4
Landline - 14
In person - 18
Email - 4
In absentia - 2

Not counting belated wishes .....

:-)

Geekification
(On the lines of californication)

I go to google type gnu + linux and search for information.
Poof and it shows me the results in a list and waits for my decision.
I click on Mandrake, it reminds me of days when I had comics of this magician.
From that moment you folks can say I started my Geekification ...

A friend gives me Cds of this operating system and I start my installation.
Browsing through the net I search for HOWTOs and other linux documentation.
Swap and root and usr tmp home I read about each partition.
X gives me problems but a little more reading and there is my pointer in motion.

'ls' 'cd' 'cp' 'mv' 'rm' 'ln' 'find' I 'man' for every action.
'more' or 'less' when I 'grep' for a 'term' it's there in some 'man' section.
'bash'ing all problems learning ps | less I get output redirection.
Reading bash prompt howto doing vi bashrc gives me prompt modification.

/usr/src/kernel is where then I focus my attention.
To support soundcard I do make menuconfig starting kernel compilation.
When adding new image to lilo.conf I see my dos partition. ;)
Geekification .... Geekification .... Geekification!

Night

Night comes riding a stallion black,
she comes riding riding;
Wind at her heels her robe so dark
the eve goes hiding hiding.

Creatures hide in burrows unseen
the birds stop chirping chirping;
Warewolves howl the sound so mean
they hide there lurking lurking.

Moon, she shines her feeble light
night frowns, wind roaring roaring;
Clouds pitch dark moonlight they fight
and owls come hovering hovering.

She sits and sings her silent song
she sits there singing singin;
Her tune is sad her silence long
her tune keeps ringing ringing.

Hours go by she's waiting for the day
A promise she's keeping keeping;
Since the Sun has taken her day away
she's waiting weeping weeping.

There comes dawn! (With the day behind?)
She hopes she's smiling smiling;
But the cruel Sun shines, her eyes are blind
the lightrays pilling pilling.

So Night goes riding a stallion black,
she goes riding riding;
With dreams in her eyes and memories black
of the times when the sun held her day back
and kept him hiding hiding.