My new “E” and kayaks

I have had my 2006 Element for about 4 months and hadn’t posted anything about it – it is definitely a cool vehicle that will get lots of good use 🙂

I got a little Pelican Burst for Christmas, and a couple days ago we bought a Apex 129T to go along with it. Michelle is going down to the beach this weekend, and I am in Chicago for PyCon2008, so we loaded up the boats on Wednesday before I left for the airport – they both fit (whew..)
E and yaks

Ah, to be a parent..

Got a note from Roxane’s teacher (and asked for permission to post the note publicly) about a couple behavior issues. I thought this was just too cute to pass up sharing.

Mr. and Mrs. Shuler.

I have had many discussions with Roxane about bathroom behavior. It is important that she go right away and come out in a timely manner. Each time I send her she talks to friends and waits for the stall she wants. We are often late for PE or music because we are waiting for her. This has been going on for a few days now so I thought I’d let you know. Also she was redirected today for chasing a boy around the room. He said she was trying to kiss him.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

L. Arguello

Roxane and I did talk about these issues. And giggled. She likes the big stall. He tried to kiss her first.

Austin Marathon

Michelle and Kerry ran the half-marathon in about 2 hours 17 minutes – congrats on finishing! I am proud of you both 🙂
Michelle and Kerry just before the finish

Zenoss Install on Debian Etch

Just a quick cheat-sheet for myself:

# aptitude install mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev python-dev build-essential swig autoconf snmp bind9-host python-setuptools
# adduser zenoss
# mkdir /usr/local/zenoss
# chown zenoss /usr/local/zenoss
# su - zenoss

$ vi ~/.bashrc # add a few env vars:

export ZENHOME=/usr/local/zenoss
export PYTHONPATH=$ZENHOME/lib/python
export PATH=$ZENHOME/bin:$PATH

$ source ~/.bashrc
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenoss/zenoss-2.1.2-0.tar.gz
$ tar xzf zenoss-2.1.2-0.tar.gz
$ cd zenoss-2.1.2/
$ ./install.sh # logout as zenoss

# chown root:zenoss /usr/local/zenoss/bin/zensocket
# chmod 04750 /usr/local/zenoss/bin/zensocket

http://hostname:8080/zport/dmd 🙂

as the zenoss user to {start|stop|restart|status|list} the zenoss services:
$ $ZENHOME/bin/zenoss start
$ $ZENHOME/bin/zenoss status
...

Read zenoss-2.1.2/INSTALL.txt for further notes on sysctl settings, etc.. Other configurations *should* be done in a production environment – this was only a quick scratch install for testing.