Painted a little bit more today, but not very much. Too hot to move large muscle groups. Also my hand cramped up. No fun.

Instead I moved small muscle groups attempting to install OpenBSD on my new old Sparc IPC. Sun boxes have OpenBoot firmware instead of a BIOS, which lets you do some nifty things such as diskless booting and writing FORTH programs without even having an OS on the machine. One of the features of the firmware is an intelligent console mode that uses a monitor and keyboard if attached, and falls back to 9600-N-8-1 on the first serial port if not. I don't yet have a Sun monitor, so I was shooting for a serial console in order to install OpenBSD over the network. For some reason, however, I was unable to get anything over the serial port. So I took the IPC and my Happy Hacking keyboard over to my friend David Carlin's apartment, attached his huge Sun monitor, and did an FTP install from his local copy of OpenBSD/sparc 2.5 that he recently used for his Sparc 2. I then set up a static DHCP lease for the IPC on my home DHCP server, brought it home, and put it on my LAN. Though I still couldn't get a serial console, the box came up just fine. The home LAN is growing!

Liz had a party at the house, apparently for her coworkers at the pool where she is the woman in charge. So I met some nice drunk people and played some of the best volleyball of my life. I don't normally have a consistent serve, but it was about 90% on. Felt great. Folks who have played with me before kept asking where I learned how to serve like that. I responded, “I didn't. Come back tomorrow and it'll be gone.” Sure is fun while it lasts though!