{"id":1131,"date":"2004-12-03T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2004-12-03T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-03T15:29:00","slug":"friday-morning-musings-from-a-befuddled-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"Friday Morning Musings from a Befuddled Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to what I posted on Tuesday, this is a collection of various musings on things, none quite worth a full post in and of themselves.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>CD Gremlins<\/b>. Went to go pack CDs this morning, and now <i>two<\/i> of my CDs are missing: <i>The Boy From Oz<\/i> and the new version of <i>Thoroughly Modern Millie<\/i>. They are probably in a stack somewhere, but &#8220;Come out, come out, whereever you are!&#8221;.\n<li><b>Training<\/b>. Betcha&#8217; thought I was going to talk about the ferroequine type. Nope. For years, I&#8217;ve been saying I need to get a personal trainer so I can work out at home. I&#8217;m now exploring acting on this. Does anyone know how to go about finding a good one? I&#8217;m looking for one that  is not too expensive, and is willing to come out to the northern San Fernando Valley. I&#8217;ve never used Craigslist; would this be a good time to try it?\n<li><b>My arm<\/b>. Yes, it is still bothering me. What&#8217;s interesting is that typing doesn&#8217;t really bother it (it is not the hand I use for the mouse), but writing does (it is my left hand, and I&#8217;m left handed). Grrrrr. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m having to review a lot of documents right now. Yes, I know I could use Word&#8217;s &#8220;comment&#8221; feature, but that means using Word. Bleh. Of course, it doesn&#8217;t help that I did my usual &#8220;I know best&#8221;, and went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvymca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">YMCA<\/a> and did a six upper-body strength machines on Wednesday. I&#8217;m sure the sore upper body muscles aren&#8217;t helping the nerve; I thought the workout would help the muscles relax. See the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> bullet above.\n<li><b>The Conference<\/b>. We&#8217;re down to the wire. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acsac.org\" target=\"_blank\">ACSAC<\/a> starts on Monday, so tomorrow we start on our trek to Tucson. I&#8217;m going to gather my final stuff today; make the CD with the files that I need. Hopefully, it will go well. I&#8217;m looking forward to my last conference as general chair! I&#8217;ll still do tutorials next year, however, but I&#8217;m planning on changing it a bit to try to get more application-oriented tutorials (i.e., how to apply a particular technology to enhance a computer security posture).\n<li><b>My head<\/b>. Yup, it&#8217;s been bothering me as well. I&#8217;m sure it is related to the cold weather, and thus the onslaught of heated, dry air. I&#8217;m using a saline spray and my usual Excedrin-equivalent to control things.\n<li><b>Sewing Machines<\/b>. Two days ago, I got a call from my wife. &#8220;I&#8217;m at the fabric store,&#8221; she says (always dangerous opening words), &#8221; and they have the sewing machine I&#8217;ve been looking at for almost half-off, only around $800 with  (some long term) 0% deal. Can I get it?&#8221;. After the usual &#8220;Are you going to use it?&#8221; stuff, I give my OK (this will replace her 20 year old Viking, bought used [similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/sewingonline.co.uk\/machines\/viking6570.html\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>]). She has indicated she will ebay three of her other old sewing machines that work (another basic Viking we found at a thrift shop, a Kenmore, and some small travel machine) , and will really work on cleaning out her sewing room (she&#8217;ll keep the big Viking as backup). I think the one she got is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berninausa.com\/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441859961&#038;FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302025051&#038;ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474395181831&#038;bmUID=1102083330062\" target=\"_blank\">Bernina 135 Patchwork Edition<\/a>. I really don&#8217;t mind, if she uses it. Such, however, is the life of someone married to a quilter\/fabric artist! However, she knows she just bought her birthday present for next year.\n<li><b>Newsies<\/b>. I&#8217;m listening to Newsies right now. Boy, it&#8217;s wierd to hear Vinnie from Doogie Houser singing! But if Doogie can do it (<i>Rent!<\/i>), I guess Vinnie can.\n<li><b>A piece of history goes<\/b>. The Daily News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/Stories\/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2570468,00.html?search=filter\" target=\"_blank\">reported yesterday<\/a> that Boing! is closing the former North American Aviation &#8220;Rocketdyne&#8221; Canoga Park facility. There is where most of the rocket engines for the space program were made. They are moving the operation to Chatsworth [Nordhoff and DeSoto] (at least they are keeping it in the state). Why, you ask? It was also reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westfield.com\/corporate\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Westborg<\/a> is doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/Stories\/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2568397,00.html?search=filter#\" target=\"_blank\">a $300M expansion of Westborg Topanga<\/a> next door (bringing in a Needless-Markup), and will also be building something to connect Westborg Prominade with Westborg Topanga. The land has commercial value: the article indicates that even without the Westborg deal, the land is valued at $1.5M\/acre, and there are 47 acres in the parcel. Interesting.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s about it from this befuddled brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to what I posted on Tuesday, this is a collection of various musings on things, none quite worth a full post in and of themselves. CD Gremlins. Went to go pack CDs this morning, and now two of my CDs are missing: The Boy From Oz and the new version of Thoroughly Modern Millie. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1131\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,171,82],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-quilters-run","tag-san-fernando-valley","tag-various-and-sundry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}