In Pursuit of Mysteries

Technical Problem

Here’s a fun situation. Does anyone know of an easy solution to this?

I have my home network on a wireless 802.11b hub faces out to my Cisco DSL box (which is doing NAT). I have a tablet pc from work which has no cd-drive or floppy drive. I set up my key correctly and it is on my home wireless network.

Leaving aside setting up an FTP server on my main PC, how can I get my 100MB+ DivX files from my main PC to the tablet? I don’t have a windows domain set up with accounts and trust. The tablet is configured for my work’s domain, which I don’t want to undo since the account that I log into it as is actually a domain-based account that I’m using cached credentials for…

The Lon Road Show

I just got back a couple of hours ago from spending the day at a workshop with OTO Bishop Lon Milo Duquette and Constance Duquette (his wife). Both are multiple decade veterans of the OTO and Lon is one of the most experienced bishops within the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, the religious side of the OTO. He’s also the author of quite a few amusing books (and an object lesson of how to not use Abramelin oil…).

The Duquette’s were here in town to present their workshop on the Gnostic Mass. They’ve been doing this one for years and developing the material over time. It involves a detailed breakdown of EGC history, concepts and then a going through of the mass, literally line by line, explaining or suggestion explanations for symbolism and the magical workings going on. This took about four hours with a couple of breaks. The Duquette’s then performed the mass and we all had dinner together.

I found the whole thing rather enlightening (though staying focussed and awake on this stuff for that many hours can be tasking) and I look at the mass in a bit of a new light now. I would recommend their workshop to anyone who gets the chance to attend.

Life

I haven’t written a lot lately for the most part. Life has been pretty much the same ol’ same ol’.

I go to work every day, we gradually move towards shipping software, and I work with the guys who work for me.
I go home in the evenings and, depending on the day of the week, I go to Latin class, hang out with R, or read and work on projects.

I’m still wanting to pick up some sort of physical discipline but the last four places I looked at for martial arts all teach on the same nights as my Latin class so that’s a bit of a concern.

I’m frustrated, to some extent, with my job but that’s not new. I’m not sure what needs to change there. My program manager, who only came on board 2 1/2 months ago, quit today and will be gone within a week and a half. They changed the mandate of our feature team enough that she didn’t want to be here. I’m thinking of finding a different test lead position here at the company. Things might be a bit more exciting and interesting at work if I was working on a project that I could muster more passion for… of course, changing groups is always a role of the dice. The new group (or even just the management) could suck, the project could get killed or just become lame, etc.

I’m enjoying Latin class. R and I are still going to Greece in April. We’re also vaguely talking about maybe getting a house. We rent one already and it sucks to be paying someone else’s mortgage.

I did register a new domain - veterator.org this week. This is on a completely different set of servers than my previous domains and runs on IIS under Windows. Since I work with ASP at work, I’ve kind of hated coming home and looking at PHP for my domains (which is what pair.com offers). This gives me a place to work on ASP for personal projects. I may eventually eliminate memoria.com and move things over to veterator.org instead.