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Not much to report today. Having my view back is nice.

Bike seat gave out about a week ago. Zip-tied it and rode on, ordered yet another and installed it this morning. Figured I'd save the last one. Processing stuff today, I found the previous-previous one which I also decided to save. Derp.

New Latitude magazine came out. These are the free sailing pulps. They get shipped to marinas, sailing clubs, stores, etc. Gill is advertising a "sailing parka" that looks exactly like a swim parka. Maybe that's justification for wearing a swim parka around when it's cold. Svendsen's Bay Marina is hiring. One dealer is having an open house on two luxury yachts. The letters are lively and interesting and there are always a bunch of stories. Someone rescued a 10 year forgotten Santa Cruz 52 with 9' draft from a marina in Oakland slated to be demolished and almost completely silted in. Unlike books about people's sailing adventures, this rag is full of full color photos.

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Registered for U*P's intro to operating systems class. This should be interesting. I was sticking Minix 5.25" floppies in 8086 lab PCs so I didn't have to use MS-DOS, and grew up on Ultrix, SunOS, AIX 2, HP/UX, etc, etc, before Linux was born. I've slogged through the Coriolis Linux 2.4 book, photocopied Lion's in library then bought my own copy, written simple device drivers for SysV, read the Design and Implementation BSD book. I could have taken the intro to web programming class. I get grief for going a bit off the rails but how can I not do things to make things more interesting. Going to try to execute Ruthless Efficiency tho. If this were a real school, we'd be tested on concepts instead of the tiniest, most obscure pieces of how particular examples were phrased in the text and it would be a lot less work.