As unhip as I am witless.

I suppose I’m officially vexed. The software I ordered still hasn’t come, leaving me, at this time, about 8 hours total to get my new database working, and that’s if-and-only-if the software arrives in the next two hours. If it’s not here today or tomorrow there’s no hope of this even being beta before the 19th. Did I mention I have no idea how this is going to work, how I’m going to pull it off, how it’s going to be useful? And I had hoped to be somewhat beyond this early confusion at this point in the week. Oh, well. I did what I could. I’m not going to worry about it, I just would have like to have at least failed on time, not been stuck in limbo. The week has been a bit weird anyway, probably because even though I know I’m going to be away for the next two weeks I haven’t really thought about it, so the reality of the time is a little sketchy. I don’t have to work Monday or Tuesday, and I leave Tuesday night. I guess I’ll start to think about it on Sunday, when I can pack a few things. I’m more worried about the most space-economical way of bringing some DVD’s with me to watch on my laptop. I should have learned how to rip them beforehand and taken them on the HD with me. But I didn’t. UglyAgnes and I saw “The Island,” last night. Two hours of Ewan McGregor learning that he is a clone. Two hours of Scarlett Johansson being breathy. It was a fun ride for the time. It didn’t really do much to bring attention to the cloning debate, since the only possible point to take from this movie is that cloning is unfair to the clones. The film expects you to infer a lot more information than I assume the average ‘summer blockbuster’ viewer is going to be capable of, but there are more car/hover bike/train chases than you would expect from a movie that borrows so liberally from “Logan’s Run.” I do enjoy a big sci-fi picture, however, and this is the only one on offer besides “Star Wars,” another McGregor clone movie. At least we’re progressing through August, and at least half of this month I’ll be away, which means that cooler weather is coming soon. This is will be of great comfort to me as I begin the massive project of cleaning and organizing everything I own over the winter. I’m going to compress space as much as possible. Everything that can is going to be stored digitally. The next place I live, I hope to make a wireless wonderland.