[e] 生活的平凡

世间很多东西，都不是可以同时得到。鱼和熊掌算是一例。还有可举的是闲钱和闲情，就像一首歌所唱的那样：

我想去桂林啊我想去桂林,
可是有时间的时候我却没有钱,
我想去桂林啊我想去桂林,
可是有了钱的时候我却没时间
........

诚 然如是. 小到吃的东西, 拥有的东西都不可兼得, 人的体验更是如此. 世界之大, 让我们虽能如小小跳虫一般, 在各个点中移动, 但要由点至面, 便是穷其一生也难得探索多少. 在Keyhole里查找地图,能从整个地球转眼找到自己的小小巢穴, 这一zoom in/zoom out之中,更让人感到个人之小.

[d] 6 hours dedicated to the old good Camry

The success of repairing the battery problem encouraged me and I got more interested (and confident) in auto repair DIY. On Thursday's Tribune there were leaflets for Sears and Pepboys, all advertising on Presidents' Day tools sale. I kept the leaflets and went to Pepboys this afternoon. Which is a bit far (12 miles away from RIC).

Long words in short, I bought a 2-ton jack combo, an oil drain and a 1-million unit spot light. The first two should be able to help in oil change and brake check and replacement. The latter could be used in camping. Actually the spot light was so strong that it seemed that it could be used as an anti-air light:).

[d] Another busy day.

Temp dropped to 16F today, the effect is significant as I lost vitality: absented for one class and felt sleepy for the other.

I went to bed at 6pm and got up at 9pm. Gave a try to setup a blog at: http://smpp-ric.org/~xluo/wordpress/. Failed. The reason was PHP compilation didn't generate libphp4.so file. PHP+Apache+Mysql, these were things so far away.......

The 3 hour attempt proved again my recent finding: effort should be spent on tasks, not tools. I will give it up and use blogspot directly, as my task is to use a blog, not necessaried to be built by my own.