Another day, another duty

Here I am, yet again, sitting in the MCR, waiting for duty to end. Not sure who I pissed off, but I managed to get two duty watches this week. On the plus side, with my compensatory days off, I’m done for the week now.

With my copious spare time (I sit here for six hours at a time, waiting for an alarm to go off. I actually do have copious spare time today), I’m doing some work on next year’s NaNo project. I’ve set up a private wiki, where I’m keeping my notes on the characters, and hoping that the linking between characters, events, locations, etc. helps me to avoid too much conflicting detail in the writing, and allows me enough to get my 50,000 words written this November.

At home (and completely inaccessible here) I’ve set up my old desktop computer as a Gentoo system. I’m trying to get some time to get my hand back into programming, so I do my development from my laptop (running Vista), save my files to a Samba share on my dev box, then compile remotely through SSH. It seems to be working so far, and hopefully I’ll get something decent pumped out soon.

Finally, this is my first post-by-email using Postie. Hopefully the combination of Postie and the ship’s email system won’t mangle this post up too badly, because I won’t be able to fix it until tomorrow morning.