Last weekend, I went back to Austin for yet another meeting of the Texas VHF-FM Society. (The meeting was in San Antonio, but I stayed with a friend in Austin.) It turned out to be pretty much a non-event; while I can understand
Still, it wasn't a waste of time at all, since I got to spend some time with some old friends. I also went and visited my little piece of Texas, tucked away not too far from Bryan. While I was there, I found out that someone had built a house just up the road from me. Neat. I didn't get to visit with them, though.
Among and around that, I spent some time getting the chupaqueso.com site in a bit better shape. The biggest contribution, aside from upgrading to WordPress 2.0, was my page on how to make a chupaqueso, complete with pictures. I think it's complete enough to show even a cooking novice how to do it.
I got the P112 built and set up, and then took it apart again and remounted it in a bigger case, with two floppy drives, a small IDE hard disk, and an IDE CD-ROM. I've got a GIDE interface board on the way. It'll allow the CP/M system to use the hard disk and CD. This is more capability than CP/M systems had in the days when they were popular, before the IBM PC swept them from the marketplace. I plan to eventually move all of my CP/M software to both the P112's hard disk and a CD-ROM, so it won't depend on the 8-inch floppies I've currently got. When the GIDE arrives tomorrow or Saturday, I'll put it all together.
I've spent a fair amount of time looking for solid work, as the company I'd been consulting for most of the time let me know they could no longer guarantee a minimum number of hours each month. No success so far, but that will come. I just hope that I won't have to get out of the computer field, although if I can't find a gig that will let me telecommute or travel, I'm going to have to; there just aren't many computer jobs in Fairmont, and what there is is nearly all Windows.