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Tue Sep 27 07:39:19 EDT 2016 Slept soundly from eleven to seven. Sunny today, with a high of seventy-eight. Goals: Work: - Finish getting my temporary environment workable Mostly done. I'll be glad when all the parts for my new workstation get here. 1280 x 800 is just not enough pixels. - Go through remaining email from last week Done. - Fix errors being thrown by Asterisk log monitor shell script. Done. Asterisk sometimes writes leading right-parens to log lines, like: )[2016-09-26 15:20:43] WARNING[21102] taskprocessor.c: The 'pjsip/distributor-000000da' task processor queue reached 500 scheduled tasks. I modified the sed regex to account for this: log_date=$(grep 'task processor queue reached 500 scheduled tasks' /var/log/asterisk/full | tail -1 | awk '{ print $1 " " $2 }' | sed 's/^[^0-9]*\(.*\).$/\1/') What moron thought that huge, lingering overlay when switching workspaces in Gnome 3 was a good idea? I've really been trying to give Gnome a shot, but --- ugh --- so many small and unnecessary annoyances. It's as if the people designing Gnome don't use it for real work. Any environment will need customization. My issues are: - The Gnome defaults are poor. - Changing the defaults is hard. There are too many different, incomplete tools and plugins (the built-in settings tool, Tweak Tool, dconf-editor, etc.). Give me one text config file to edit and a good man page! I think I might be coming down with a cold. Maybe I'll go to bed early --- try to fight it off. Got Thai food for lunch, and still had time for a twenty minute walk. Windy. Saw a couple of turkey vultures, and a couple of little white butterflies. Home: - Go to bed early Done. I think I've made this observation before, but the dash man page is much better than most linux man pages. Breakfast: carrots, mixed greens, yogurt, coffee with half-in-half Lunch: pad ped Dinner: steak and mushroom sub, fries

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