I've got the arrangements made for the next couple of conventions on my schedule:

TCEP 15 -- The Elder Party (8/29-9/1)
Capclave (10/17-19)
OVFF (10/24-26)

Other than that, I've been fiddling with a few minor projects and converting a batch of documents from my miscellaneous entertainment files to Mobipocket form to carry around on my phone and read while waiting for the Metro (is it just me, or has their service been going downhill a lot lately?). I got a couple of crashes and lockups at first; I think I've traced it to synch problems when an old e-book document is directly replaced by a new one instead of deleting, rebuilding, and letting the annotation synch do its thing.

We headed out last night and did some clothes shopping to take advantage of the sales-tax holiday. I found a couple pairs of pants, but only one suitable shirt -- manufacturers are a lot more experimental with men's shirts, and some of the results are Things Man Was Not Meant To Know Wear.

starmalachite's new Wing arrived today. So far, so good; I'm recharging the battery in preparation for resynching and reinstalling software.

The cats are being clingy now that their humans have returned from the second long absence in two weeks. Heidi in particular is particularly affectionate. She used to have the stereotypical catitude of ignoring the Hairless Ape Servants unless she needed her dish filled or her litter box emptied; lately, she's been mellowing (either the onset of middle age or exposure to Vir the bouncy Siamese).

I woke up last night and found that the desktop had shut itself off. My three working theories were:

1. Some oddity caused during installation of ActiveStinc (and ActiveSync Toggle to address the fact that, no, I don't need it using up computing power 99.9% of the time) to enable direct connection of our Wings and the desktop (until now, we've only used the laptop for that purpose).

2. A fan/heating issue.

3. Power failure caused by UPS failure or feline intervention (the big red power button is on top of the UPS unit).

It didn't give any of the "Windows did not shut down normally" messages that would result from a crash or power cut, which leads me to suspect #1. However, it seems to have stayed on all day after my reboot this morning.

As for why I'm here posting this instead of off with Three Left Feet -- apparently the northbound Yellow Line trains weren't running even to the usual lackadasical schedule, and the information board didn't indicate any coming for at least the next 15 minutes (i.e. about the time my last good "bail and make my way home" window closed).

I've been playing a bit more with adding documents to my T-Mobile Wing. So far, it seems to handle Word docs much better than the old PDA (especially documents with pictures).

One odd thing I've noticed is that the "wrap to window" option has an odd little bug that causes a superfluous horizontal scroll bar to appear when an open document begins with exactly one paragraph of text followed by a picture wide enough to require down-scaling to fit in the window. Once I noticed the pattern, the word-around was fairly obvious ("It hurts when I do this." "Don't do that!")

I managed to post a couple entries with just an image, apparently by putting it in a directory used by LJ Mobile. Sorry if I spammed anybody's Friends page before cleaning it up.

Testing LJ mobile.

Edit: Now that I've confirmed that the post made from the Wing showed up, extending it and shifting it from private (just to avoid spamming people with a contentless test post) to public. After some initial problems, ActiveStync seems to be behaving itself.