Hyper Gumbo

So, I’m trying to build and install our custom mix of boost libraries, and I’m following the directions on the wiki without isssue, up to the point of actual install of the completed binaries.  When I give the command my commrades have left behind for me, I kept getting a bunch of errors about “…skipped…lack of directory-grist”.  And none of the google results seem to be applicable.  

Eventually it dawns on me that I’m running the install command as a non-root user, who of course, has no permissions to write to /usr/local/… 

d’oh.

So, it turns out that all the United mileage program mails I’ve been throwing out, unopened, have been trying to tell me that I have enough miles for a round-trip flight.  Thinking I should try to take my balloon flight again somewhere, or maybe go visit Dad and play golf once the weather cools down a little…after the summer we’ve had in Seattle this year, I don’t think I could take shifting to Vega weather all at once.

Managed my first accidental tip-over yakking on lake union tonight.  Some kids on the dock were playing with a ball, and it got away from them into the water.  I was helpfully tossing it back, but leaned just a bit too far and…splash.  Most importantly, my glasses remained on my head.  Well, I didn’t drown either, which is sorta important too, just not as likely a disaster.