Ahh.

I had a great weekend this week. It didn't start off too great, though; I had been walking around with a rash on my hands for a few days already, and had to call in the doctor. Luckily he told me it's just a allergic reaction to something; and though we weren't able to pinpoint exactly what the problem was, apparently that doesn't matter much. I'm on some medication now which should, at least, make it less of a problem.

After that, I left for Ninove, where Freek, a long-time friend of mine, lives. This is not the type of friend that I see every weekend, but it is someone I know from high school and that I kept in contact with over the years. It had been three years since I'd last seen him, even though we had called eachother on our respective birthdays during those years. Which boils down to "we haven't seen much of eachother in three years". Still, I consider him one of my best friends, because of the very special relationship I have with him; we have no secrets for eachother, and I would trust him with my life. Which is strange, considering how little we see eachother. Oh well.

Due to a misunderstanding, however, I arrived in Ninove a few hours early. However, I still had a few hours worth of battery energy in my laptop, so I did some work on the exim4-config-wouter package I've been working on for a few weeks now. Not quite there yet, as you can see in the other blog post.

Spent some great time with Freek in Ninove—mostly catching up with eachother, but some other interesting things, too—and then left for Leuven, where I'd arranged to meet p2(@debian.org), who was going to help me understand some of the more obscure parts of the lowlevel code on a GNU/Linux system. I needed that help, because in my work to get Debian/m68k working on the ColdFire V4e processor family, I had gotten stuck due to the fact that I didn't understand some of the bits there properly. P2 and I had some beer together, and lunch too, since we met in a bar that had food on the menu as well, and, well, because I, at least, was hungry.

Next, we went to the mind (ex-)offices, and played a bit with the support packages for the Belgian electronic ID card that I maintain for Debian, and reached some incremental successes. Whee. New packages are in incoming.

Right now, I'm on my third train trip of the weekend, which is "towards home". I hope to be able to go to bed soonishly, since I have to get up early tomorrow -- and I didn't get to catch much sleep last night...

... It turned out I did. So quickly, even, that I was unable to post this particular blog entry before hitting the deck. Oh well, being one day late on that won't hurt anyone