Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Dear Lazyweb,

How do I make a bootable USB thingie? It can't be as easy as making a bootable floppy image and then just 'dd'ing that to the USB drive, can it? (I've got a USB CF reader and a spare CF card larger than a floppy; depending on just how small a CD DSL is supposed to fit on, I might even have room for that.)

My wrist wasn't too bad yesterday as long as I was very, very careful how I used that hand. Today it's excruciating. :-(

I got word yesterday that an uncle has died. Still waiting to hear when the funeral will be (and then to figure out how I'll get there -- it'll be somewhere in NoVa).

Today's Tuesday, right? It feels like a Thursday. I've finally started doing post-Pennsic laundry. That'll take a while, given how painfully slow my dryer is. (Yeah, I can hang up a lot of clothes. I don't have room to hang up blankets.) Even the things that never left my tent smell of wood smoke. So did my hair for the first few days I was home.

Tomorrow, assuming I can work out travel (and it looks as though I can, thanks to anniemal), HCB rehearsal will be a test run for how I plan to try to deal with my wrist at our gigs this weekend. Let's see how far ice packs and carefully timed painkillers / anti-inflammatories can get me, and just how much I can adapt to strumming with the Ace bandage on. I figured out how to hold my electric guitar in bed to be able to strum somewhat (with a different arm motion than normal); today I'll try with an acoustic guitar and see whether I can still get the right position on an instrument with a deeper body.