the flying squirrel

Darcy Casselman's weblog. Just like old times.

stupid lightning

The site was offline all day yesterday. I think some lightning non-fatally confused my router-thingy. I power cycled it this morning, but only after rebooting my machine and, thinking my ISP might be at fault, running a looping try-to-connect-dammit script overnight. In rebooting, I forgot that I hadn't set up some key servers to start up automatically, so things got a little fubarred around here.

Back to normal now, though.

Hm, the weather's been rather nice, so I haven't been extraordinarily driven to update lately. Ah, spring. Speaking of which, a little more spring music:

Spring, First Movement (Allegro), from Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Don't worry. There's method to my madness.

I'm trying to look for a car at the moment. This is made difficult by my distaste for the whole car thing (nearly getting run over by one yesterday didn't help, however much it was my fault. Signal, damn you!). Those little suckers just inhale money, don't they? I'd really like to put this off for a couple years, but there's just too much stuff I'm missing out on for lack of wheels. I kinda wanted to go to the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival on Saturday (despite the rain), for example.

In other news, I found out today that the wedding ceremony for my best friend from high school will be family only, which is fine and everything, but it's starting to look like the only wedding in which I'm going to be part of the wedding party will be my own (knock wood). *sigh*