Things to check out when you’re bored today:

• WPI’s home page (seen as the home page from on-campus)
• Google’s newest product
• Magicthegathering.com adds premium content

And I’m sure there are more out there somewhere…

We have a building permit!

We sign the contract with the builder this Sunday, most likely.

Much happiness and joy!

I’ve decided not to run for Town Moderator. I don’t want to run as a write-in candidate against somebody who’d I’d be happy to have in there.

In other news, I drew a network diagram today, just to make sure I knew what IPs were where in our increasingly-complicated home network. (The router for VoIP adds another layer of NATing, and there’s now the cable-modem-to-phone-router subnet, the phone-router-to-PCPC subnet, and the main home subnet.)

Happiness! Voice-over-internet box came (it’s a full-fledged Linksys router, in fact), and have dial tone. Please change your contact info for us to be our new phone number: 774-490-7314.

This is what happens when your gun control laws get too restrictive.

Well, the Telegram reports that someone is in fact running for the Town Moderator position. So now I’ve got to decide whether I want the position badly enough to try running a real write-in campaign, where there’s an opponent.

Online tracking information indicates high probability of me getting my voice-over-IP box today. I’m excited to play with that and cancel my traditional phone service.

I’ve now read through Town Meeting Time: a Handbook of Parliamentary Law, a book so tough to get that even Amazon doesn’t carry it. (The Charlton Public Library does, however.)

If news reports tonight and tomorrow confirm nobody is officially on the ballot running for Charlton Town Moderator, I’ll likely officially announce my candidacy as a write-in candidate to the press (or at least to the Charlton Gazette for inclusion in their April candidate profiles).

Okay; I’m trying opening up the wiki at cooperjr.name to allow editing by any logged-in user. Feel free to browse around and add anything that you think might be useful to have at our site.

Here’s the news from my mom:

Dad called to find out about your building permit. He was told it was
not ready, and it has a date stamp of March 4th (even though he has a
receipt dated February 7th). The building inspector had some kind of
accident and broke his ribs, so they don’t know when he’ll be back at
work. Dad tried to call the builder, to see if he can push something
along, since there is a part-time associate building inspector, but
there was no answer. The good news is, your address is 194 Berry
Corner Road.

I got my picture in the paper! Jessi and I are small and in the background of the picture of the Trivial Pursuit event we went to Saturday night. Our team ended up in 3rd place, and my brother and I each won door prizes. It was quite a fun event.