One day, you're all going to die.

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I am going to be 42 some time this week. As such, I propose a visit to The Pub™ — Pembury Tavern, Sunday 7pm until chucking-out. I understand many others will be there with the intention of celebrating their own lives, so it's only fair to give them the opportunity to celebrate mine too.

Today I performed athletics in the Spaghetti Shite Olympics. The name comes from the sobriquet one of the machine room guys gave the horrible temporary cabling I put into place ahead of a switch upgrade (100Mbit to 1Gbit). On Friday I was using crimpers at work! Well. A crimper. A cable crimper. It's not clear how in eight years' system administration I evaded making my own cables. But I'm good at it now! White/green, green, white/orange, blue, white/blue, orange, white/brown, brown. (check) Yep, remembered it right. This is burnt into my brain forever, or at least another week.

I trashed my boot sector aborting an install of WUBI, so I'm now recovering by installing an ancient Ubuntu 6.06. I'm writing this from the live CD. With Linux, you can LiveJournal while you install!