I think more people should appreciate the beauty of the burdock plant.
We woke up early for a Saturday, because Sharon wanted to drive us around a bit: I think she was rather bored. Riordon had already gone up to sell things at her stand. Sharon took us to McDonald's and bought us coffee, which was okay, and yoghurt with fruit in, where the fruit had just been taken out of the freezer and so were encased in ice. We bought a newspaper and looked up all the local yard sales, then drove to them. We found quite a bit of inexpensive stuff, including something called a "gossip bench"— picture— it does usually have Zarate sitting on it, yes.
We also found a Pentium II system for free, and I thought Rio might like to have it. (Rio asked specifically to run GNOME on there "so that we can hack together". Did I mention that I have the best daughter ever?) When I got it home and took it apart with Rio, we found that the video card was missing, as was the memory. But, still, it was free! I'm not too sure how best to get hold of new ones (I knew in England), but I will ask the friendly IT people at work what they recommend on Monday.
Also when I got home, there was an email saying I'd won a "golden reddit" for having the top link on reddit.com that day-- it was a bit of a surprise since I'd never used reddit.com. A photo I'd put on flickr (and posted here earlier-- the one about the desk calendar) had got an awful lot of attention: when I came to look at it I found it had ten thousand hits and fourteen favouritings. I'm wondering what made it so popular. I think a lot of people thought it showed that attempting not to offend people was a silly idea; I think, rather, that it showed that peace and justice and the lessening of oppression between groups of people requires patience, pain, repentance and humility, and is not, despite what some may think, the sort of thing you can Band-Aid on by doing a search-and-replace.
Firinel decided to clear out and tidy the garage today: not having a car has often meant that a lot of spare things get put in the garage and forgotten about. Zie worked on that while I did some simple gardening: I cleaned out the leafmould that had accumulated under the windows, and made a great deal of tea, then blew up some inflatable kids' water toys Fin had found in the garage. Rio will take them to her stand and sell them. Fin did a great job of cleaning up in the garage, and order is beginning to reign in there. Zie also put our rainbow flag up again. A lot of the stuff that was in the garage got given to Smreigner to sell on her stand; I loaded up her truck with it in the evening.
Later I worked on metacity. (I don't usually do GNOME hacking on weekends, but it was all quiet and I'd done a bunch of chores.) Elijah gave me a gentle prod on IRC to show me where I should be looking for a wrapper function I needed. After that, I thought I'd finished fixing up the metacity-theme-2 patch, but now it actually crashes on startup, which it never did before! I'm hunting this down with gdb now; I have a backtrace and I'm not afraid to use it.
I also phoned my parents, because it was my mother's birthday last week. Their new puppy is busily eating their house, but they seem quite happy about it.