Anniversary!
Well... another year rolls around and it's my wedding anniversary. Nice.
Last evening I looked for the Solaris 7 disks on eBay and again this morning. It seems as though I'm never going to get my wonderful set of disks back and rather then get the set I originally got for $18.00 that included both the SPARC and Intel versions of Solaris 7, I'm going to have to pay on the order of $25.00 plus shipping to get a SPARC-only set of the disks.
Let this be a lesson to you, Bob... never, never, never trust someone else with things that are near and dear to you. I feel like a fool for having left the disks there. I should have kept them with me as he was never going to be doing an install anyway.
Oh well... I supposed I've had more expensive mistakes in my life... this one will only set me back the cost of a good dinner with the family. I've had worse, I suppose.
Work is thankfully quiet and that's good. In these quiet times I'm going through the code and cleaning it up, adding accessor methods and such to just clean up the code and make it just a little more robust.
One of the problems with doing this is that you really can't change anything and that means you need to be very careful about what you change and be sure to make sure all references are checked. The upside is that after you've done this it's a cleaner design and you've probably caught a few mistakes in the process.
The big downside is that you end up burned out after a few hours. Since you aren't really doing anything new it's not like there's something to look forward to. It's a do no wrong mode and that's hard to keep up after a few hours. So I have to take breaks and pace myself. It's important work to do, but it's not the kind of thing you can keep at for eight hours straight...
FLASH! - Joel called and the Solaris 7 disks have been found and he'll be bringing them to the City Monday. Yes! Good news.