Almost back to school

[jenett]

I just got back from our 'beginning of year barbecue' which was actually a really good time, even if being a social butterfly is still tiring for me. (I also spent a chunk of the afternoon making further progress in my library, so we should be able to finish putting it together tomorrow after meetings. Yay.)

- My new minion and her girlfriend moved this weekend, only to discover a major mold problem that requires them finding a somewhere else to be. (They are not direly in need of somewhere tonight or this week, but do want to find somewhere soon rather than later.)

They prefer south Minneapolis, are fairly open as to specific neighborhood and other details, and they're both professional types (minion is working on her MLIS, her girlfriend is a lawyer working for the state.) They were looking at renting something small-house-sized, but are open to duplex, etc. etc. (They're looking to buy in a year or two, but not yet.)

- Moment of amusement: her girlfriend is a Wellesley alum, who started the last year I was a student. We had mutual geekiness over the VAX systems, as all good Wellesleyites of our generation should.

- I got to have nice chats with all sorts of people. Yay people.

- I'm about to go make a post to LJ (because scrapbook works over there to make this easy) with photos of my library. You can view the gallery here: http://pics.livejournal.com/jenett/gallery/0001zy12 (It's currently public, but because of one piece of info in an image, I'm going to take it to LJ friends lock in a week or so.)

Comments

[aedifica]

Lovely! And thanks for explaining the call number in the bracelet, that's just right. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't it just? (We dithered about the call number, but in the end, 020 is about right, and actually fits.)

[jenett]

That'd be me above, and also the anon below that sounds like me. Forgot the work machine wasn't logged in here.

Duplex for rent

[aedifica]

Did you see Lynn's post saying that the bottom half of their duplex will be available for rent soon?

Re: Duplex for rent

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't, but I'd dragged up email contacts from Elise last night about it, since I knew it was available.

[ethaisa]

Lovely - so much natural light. Looks like a great place to study. And work - best wishes for a great year!!

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

You kidding me? The move away from VMS was a giant leap backwards for the computing industry! Well, okay, maybe not, but Vaxes were probably the most fun computers to hack and program in. Nothing else has come close for since I moved away from the Space Physics department all those years ago.

[jenett]

I remain very nostalgic about our VAX systems. (Our systems at the time were named after Snoopy characters: the VAXen were Sally, Molly, Patty, and Lucy. When you logged into Lucy, you got a special message saying "The Doctor is IN".)

I didn't do much programming on them (erm, any) but I loved the text terminal interface anyway.

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

I just loved the wonderfully logical OS command line. It seemed to be laid out by Mentats. Granted Mentats who were so wrapped up their own elegant solutions that they never bothered to consider how hard the damned thing was to learn for a novice. By comparison, Unix is some sort of sardonic hipster joke whose punchline I've never gotten.

[jenett]

I also used our Unix boxes there - but they were never quite as intuitive for me, though I had an easy time learning the bits I actually used. (pine. tin. directory commands.)

But everyone had a VAX account: you had to request a Unix account.