Several of my geek goals for the day have been completed. I netbooted my old SPARCstation 20, I got NetBSD-5 running on old SUN4M hardware, and I helped my neighbor with his wireless and network printing. But the big adventure for the day was walking to Grand Central Baking for lunch and to the hardware store to buy soap dishes and towel hangers for my new shower. I also went to Restoration to get some drawer pulls. I can’t believe I spent $100 on random stuff for my new bathroom, but I suppose that’s the way it goes.

I’m not sure about the rich weird people that shop at expensive hardware stores. One guy had two beautiful throw pillows and thought they were $19. But it was $19 for the cover, $20 for the down insert. Instead of saying, “Oh, I guess I don’t want them,” he tossed them at the guy at the counter and said, “Keep them!” I, on the other hand, had a handful of chromed handles and gladly paid $9 for something that wasn’t bigger than a shiny metal jawbreaker. Maybe that’s why he had the tall model girlfriend, and I was shopping with my mom.

And, as it usually occurs this time of night, I can’t remember what else I did. I am wondering if I should really quit going to the gym so much. I was wearing the only jeans that almost fit me when I started going. Today they kept feeling like they were falling down. I’m sure I could just go out and buy a new pair of jeans, but think of all the slacking I could do if I just quit going! A new pair of jeans costs more than a full set of drawer pulls from the yuppie hardware paradise of Restoration.