Why learn something new every day?

I think I’ve gained five pounds lately (measuring first thing in the morning like I usually do) and I think I blame Sean and his vegan ways. It’s causing so much stress that I’m putting on weight. Someone has to make up for all the meat he’s not eating (though he never did eat bacon, the tastiest of meats). It surely couldn’t be stress from work.

I was still feeling slightly off today. A few more people were out sick from work and I left early and took what turned into an hour-and-a-half nap. I still went to the gym. I even ended up staying late, trying to fix the computer. Not their fault, I get engrossed in things like that and am loath to let a computer get the best of me. But I learned something new doing it.

  • To fsck Mac OS X, boot holding Command-S and you get into single-user mode. If you don’t understand that, I’m not telling you any more because it’s dangerous.
  • To get a root certificate on to the iPhone (like the ones from CAcert) email it to yourself. Duh. I’ve been trying for WEEKS to get the root certificate onto the iPhone.
  • Instead of reverse-engineering the driveway monitor for my sister’s front porch to try to get it to be less sensitive, just mount it ABOVE the doorway pointing down. (Duh again.)

I still haven’t learned to go to sleep on time. Still not Xmas, so Santa hasn’t not brought me my common sense.