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fj wrote: "I think what the world needs now is one of those really narrative country songs with that larger- than-life-story quality about how two guys grew up together and are now in love. But the one guy can't wear the ring he was given cause the other one is in the military." (The idea is fleshed out more in FJ's entry.)

Got a few things done yesterday before exhaustion and another headache dropped me; failed to get to a couple places I needed to go, because one took longer than expected. Somewhat headachy today -- not sure whether it's bad enough to take my migraine meds or not; not sure how much to worry about frequency of use on those, and do worry about running out of them again. At Balticon someone raised the question of whether the weather might be at fault for the unusual number of headaches I've been having. I wonder.

Did get more sleep than usual last night (positive side effect of the migraine med) but woke up in severe pain from my fibromyalgia a few times. Trying to get ready for the Homespun Ceilidh Band gig tonight (wedding reception in DC). Hoping I can at least start the event un-drugged. (Okay, I really mean w/o narcotics or the migraine drug -- I'll have some Ultram in me, and that's completely benign.)

Found a couple of different implementations of 'cron' utilities for MacOS earlier than MacOS X. Not sure yet which I'm going to install. Still looking for a free or cheap X server that'll work under MacOS 9.1. Thing is, when I do a web search for X and Mac, I get lots of hits for MacOS X. Even if I specify "X11", I get mostly hits for MacOS X, 'cause that has an X server built in, and I guess nearly all the folks using X under MacOS are using MacOS X. I do wish they'd just called it "10" instead of "X", 'cause then I could more easily search for the "X" that I mean.

So if anybody has clever search-engine tricks to share, or happens to know a free or inexpensive-shareware X server that'll work on a PowerMac 7500/100 under 9.1, I'm all ears. For that matter, if you have an opinion on which 'cron' to use, I'll take advice on that as well.

I want to use Opera on the Mac, but I think this machine might be a smidgen underpowered for it, so it's a good thing I've got iCab available as well. (I'm not making a whole lot of bookmarks until I decide which is going to be my main browser on this machine.)

Oh, and I finally got around to pre-registering for Pennsic.