purg.atory – a personal blog by elyograg

From the chinese takeout place in the Smith’s on 8th south and 9th east: There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. We can learn from everyone, even our adversaries.

From the chinese takeout place in the Smith’s on 8th south and 9th east: You sense subtle changes in people.

We’ve been picking up accessories here and there for the new trailer, which is still up at the dealership having electrical problems looked at. I’ll write a separate post dealing with that eternal saga when it concludes. One of the accessories we bought last night is a funnel we planned to make our next water…

Uah Power is now Rocky Mountain Power, according to the little pamphlet included in this month’s power bill. Considering that the bill gets sent to Portland Oregon, I suppose the old name really isn’t correct. Of course, considering that the bill gets sent to Portland Oregon, the new name isn’t exactly right either. The rest…

This post was originally going to be a comment in reply to a Livejournal post from an old friend, but it started to grow, so I moved it here. Today is the two year anniversary of my last day working at Convergys. Yes, the call-center borg from hell. I worked there from June of 1999…

From Cafe Trang, near 8th south and main street: You will soon receive pleasant news of a personal nature.

My wife and I have had a love/hate relationship with camping trips. I really enjoy camping, but she’s never had a really good experience with it. Our first experience as a family was four years ago. We attended Kathy’s family reunion at Payson Lakes over the 4th of July weekend. The dirt at the campsite…

From Cafe Trang, near 8th south and main street: Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

From the chinese takeout place in the Smith’s on 8th south and 9th east: Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

Can’t get that song out of my head for some reason. The mud is responding much better since I rebooted the server, but I know it’s a temporary fix. The machine really needs to be replaced with something a lot newer. That may be happening in the near future, if I can figure out what…

The server my mud is running on (which also runs this website) is spending way too much time at 100% CPU utilization. As is typical of java programs, the mud uses a lot of RAM. Lately it has been responding very slowly. I’m going to try rebooting the server to see if that helps things,…

In personal news, we recently picked up three kittens. All three are girls, which was confirmed by the vet. When I feel up to unloading the camera, there will be pictures in the gallery. Their full names (short version underlined) are: Captain Jackie Sparrow Lady Kestrel Hawke Bellatrix Black On the MUD front, I got…

I’ve had a MUD running on my server in one form or another for quite a while, though I rarely log onto them, and so far I haven’t attempted to do any customization. I haven’t been real happy with any of the software I’ve tried yet, and I’ve decided that the reason I’m not happy…

I was recently introduced to a strain of MUD software that I had not previously encountered. I’ve set it up on my server to play with it. I seem to be having a problem with terminal emulation when I telnet to it, where the CR/LF combo is all wrong and backspace/delete is all messed up.…

There is a cool gadget that I would like to get, though like most of my other cool gadget dreams, it’s priced outside my budget. It’s called the Universal Software Radio Peripheral. In a nutshell, with the right modules you can receive and transmit at any radio frequency from straight DC to 2.9Ghz. I don’t…

Nat recently wrote a post in his blog about always being asked what he is reading, and trying to come up with a way to share that information easily. I found a great plugin for WordPress that accomplishes what he describes in his post. On the main page of my blog (click on the image…

Last night Kathy left the kids overnight with her mother in Eagle Mountain, and we took advantage of the night off to have a double date with our friends Nick and Niki. At first we were going to go to the Wiseguy’s comedy club, which we had done before and enjoyed immensely. For the first…

The drive home on Friday turned out to not be too bad after all. I hit some rain, but it only got bad on I-215 right around where it goes under I-15. I had to have the wipers on continuous for a few minutes in that area, but it was mild everywhere else.