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Plans for my nine days of work-free time?

• Get the lights hung and set for the upcoming production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) that's opening in a couple weeks.
  
• Record all the cues and print out a cue sheet so whoever's running the lights knows exactly when to push the 'cue' button. *Note; it may help to consult with the director before finalizing this, despite the fact that he seems to think I'm perfectly capable of deciding everything myself. Hearing that from a director always makes me nervous...
  
• Get one of the old 6GB laptop drives I more or less permanently borrowed from work into the PII Omnibook that work gave me and see if I can get it working. Done. Now I just need to get the fan fixed on the thing. That may take a little bit to do since, after my rent check clears, I will have approximately ten dollars in my bank account. *sigh*
  
• Get the mounds of stuff I've downloaded onto CDs so I can try and reinstall my OS on my primary workstation and get my server uncluttered. I've got about 2 gigs worth of various programs, drivers, codecs, patches, firmware updates, blah blah blah that I've donloaded over the years that I really want to archive to disk. Plus, I have many gigs of a/v data that needs to come off of my hard drives. I'm in the middle of burning the first season of Babylon 5, which I've got three seasons of that need to go to disc. Looks like about 11 CDs per season since I don't have a DVD burner. Then there's the eight gigs of MP3s to go through...
  
• Try to switch my mail server from using POP3 over to IMAP so I can have mail clients on multiple computers and not have to worry nearly so much about keeping everything synched up on ther server. I hope it's as nice and Exchange Server mailboxes. Having now had a chance to get more used to it, I love some of the functionality of Exchange, but I'm trying to stay open source with my servers as much as I can. Keeping things on the server instead of on the client as POP3 does will be of particular concern now that I have a laptop and a nationwide dial-up account (I get to use the one we have at work) so that if I travel, I can bring my computer and access my email accounts without worrying about not having those messages show up on my home workstation.
  
• Along those lines, I should back up and archive all of the email I currently have on my server so I can start fresh with IMAP.
  
• I'd like to get the computer room cleaned up enough that I can find room to go pick up the Commodore hardware I have over at my parent's house (not to mention the rest of my exhibits in the historical display that I jocularly like to call the historical highlights of the x86 processor. Yes folks, step right up, see everything from the grizzled IBM AT through the 286, the Pentium classic, the old reliable Pentium Pro, all the way through the lean, mean, Pentium III Xeon, step right up!
  
• I'd like to get the basement clean enough that I can have the handyman come over to hook up our gas dryer and fix the leaking valve on the faucet that connects to our washing machine. It would be nice to be able to things like, say, drying clothes in the winter.
  
• I'd like to maybe even get the rest of the house cleaned up a bit. It's a lot better than it was, but stil needs a little work.
  
• I'd like to find some time to play with configuring my Cisco router too, but first...
  
• I should probably study some more for the couple more Microsoft certifications I have vouchers for before they expire. (I should probaby find out when that is.)
  
• I'd like to try making some curtain holdbacks for our living room curtains at my forge. The plastic ones we have a functional, but I'd love to try making some real metal ones. They may not come out as pretty as I hope, but at least I'll have tried.
  
• Maybe spending some time with wooisme would be nice too.
  
  Sorry I haven't written more here lately. That's another thing I'd like to use this time for. Since gas prices being what they are, I won't be going to Pennsylvania, I'm going to have more time than I thought. I hope I can make good use of it.