so, i got my first reboot since the reformat moments after i turned the laptop back on this afternoon, but the situation is unlike it was before - there's no weird update files, no recent changes to the catroot, etc.

i see no evidence of anything out of the ordinary at all, actually.

the services and policies are all running.

*shrug*.

it could have just overheated. i'm not going to react to a scenario in which there is no evidence. the other possibility is that they've evolved, i guess. we'll see what happens.

i thought about the situation with the oiprd this morning, and realized that if i mail the forms tonight, they won't go out until monday morning anyways, so i'm going to give them until the end of the day to react, and i'll send them updated files on monday morning before i mail it - bright and early. that means i'll be working on this on sunday.

for the next few days, i actually want to see if i can get the master document for december done.

i didn't get through the clean-up for november last night, so that will be my first task, before i stop to eat.