It’s been pretty rainy the past week or so in Southern California. And yesterday the temperature barely got above 50. But at dusk yesterday, we could start to see some clear sky and this morning, the sun is shining. I took this picture at dusk yesterday, driving north on the 5, around Anaheim.
I saw this license plate when I was driving this afternoon. The guy driving drove too fast and threw trash out his window. I just have one question: What’s UPDOG?
And Happy New Decade! It’s the morning of a brand new year. One of the first things I did this morning when I sat down at my desk is to write out “2010″ a whole bunch of times so that I’ll be used to writing it and won’t accidentally write “2009″ the rest of the month:
The only time I got a speeding ticket was in Arizona in January 1992, driving back to Biola in California, but the officer accidentally wrote January 1991 on the ticket (he didn’t do my little exercise, apparently). I thought maybe I could get out of the ticket because of that. Instead, I just decided that would be a good time to get a California driver’s license, so I’d still have a clean record. It worked. (I might be off a year on this story, I don’t remember exactly.)
I’m using the occasion of a new decade to change the way I do a couple things. I’m changing the way I read and archive all my email (don’t worry, none of my 271 addresses are changing, just the way I read them). I also did a full backup of all my data last night.
This decade: I hope to obtain a car, a PhD, and a house. My current car is 17 years old. I need a PhD, and it would be nice to buy a house.
So Happy New Year everyone! May God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you this new decade.
(I know, I know some people say the decade doesn’t start until 2011. But that’s just because the first year was numbered 1 instead of 0. We have since discovered zero. Also, with all the Y2K drama 10 years ago, I think it’s okay to start counting our decades, centuries, and millennia on the zeros. Time magazine said the same thing last week.)
Last night, we went to Northwestern Way, where my friend Brent and his family live. People on their street decorate their houses for Christmas. Here are some pictures.
Then this morning, Christmas morning, we sat around the house, and I installed GNU Emacs version 23.1 on my desktop and laptop. I wanted to be able to use Python within Emacs, and just upgrading to the new version was the easiest way to do that.
I realized I was upgrading from version 20.7.1, which came out NINE AND A HALF years ago, June 13, 2000. I’ve been using the same software for that long! The new version seems to work pretty well.