My long nightmare of multiple five-day weeks has finally ended. Actually, it ended on Tuesday with the return of the guy I work with from his well-earned vacation. Fortunately, nothing too overwhelming crapped out on my watch and it’s really nice to not only have a few days off but to not have to carry my goddamn work phone around with me everywhere I go. The only real bummer id that I have to take Fritzi to the vet tomorrow morning for his Lyme booster and Lepto shot. Although I hate going, he’s at least pretty easy to handle and hopefully we’ll be in and out in a hurry and then I won’t have any vet trips to worry about for a while (as long as they all manage to avoid hurting each other to the point of breaking bones or needing stitches).

Otherwise, I don’t have a lot going on. I tried to get some shit done yesterday, but didn’t get very far. I haven’t really been feeling that great, which makes it that much harder to overcome my natural state of inertia. It has been warm enough to get in some pool time, so that’s nice. It’s about the only time I feel good – but it wears off fast. On the bright side, I’ve discovered a couple of good teevee-related things.

If you’ve got Netflix, you’ve probably already heard of Sense8. It was created by J. Michael Straczynski (I guess if you’re a geek like me then you’ll know who that is, otherwise not so much) and the Wachowski brothers. It’s pretty hard to describe what this thing is about, so I won’t bother. But it’s pretty weird, which is right up my alley.

Also right up my alley is a new show on USA – Mr. Robot. This one is kind of about a “white hat” hacker (though his hat isn’t all that white, so maybe “grey” hat would be better). It’s quite a bit more realistic than the other tech-related shit you’ll see out there, where the ability to hack seems to involve typing really fast and slapping in really cool-looking (and extraordinarily fake) graphics in post. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good (at least they use Linux).

The other little project I’ve been working on is a new media device I got a deal on, and which shipped from Slovenia of all places (which I don’t know much about, but it looks like a really beautiful place from the pictures I’ve seen). In fact, it went from Slovenia to JFK to my house in two days (for free, even). That’s pretty good. So, anyhow, I replaced the OS it shipped with (OPENElec, if anybody cares) and loaded Android on it instead. So it thinks it’s a tablet tied to my Google account, so I have access to all my Android apps and Google content on it. It’s also got an SD card slot, so I have OPENElec loaded on that, and can boot to it if I want to.

Not very exciting, I know, but if my life ever was exciting (and, sadly, it never was), those days are long gone.

Oh well, I reckon I’d better at least make an effort to get something done around here.