Loyalty Bonus 14:55

One of the restaurants I eat (almost regularly) at is now giving off a loyalty offer. I had always wanted this to happen but had not expected this from this particular eatery. For most of the places I used to visit for my daily intake, I had been a regular for sizable time periods.

This particular one was not something that I would like to make a regular one. Not counting couple of items in the breakfast menu and the fact that its close enough to walk down, there is nothing that is attractive to me. Hardly a couple of weeks ago they denied me the pleasure of dosas at dinner stating that its to be ‘bundled’ with a non-vegetarian curry. I had decided that its the wrong restaurant to have a ‘relation’ with. Today’s offer is not changing anything because the kind of people they are targetting are just not mine.

Things go differently at my real regular place. They have no formal ‘loyalty’ bonus. However being regular worked out quite well. I get bonuses like these – they cook stuff just for me when I barge in late (when they are almost closed for the day), they offered to take me to a doc (tho I did not take it). In most of the cases my loyalty is fake and usually due convenience. This one was due the feeling of the food being ok on my stomach and mildly the taste.

Standby sux 15:21

Last week when I saw the system go to sleep on acpitool -s I thought I got one of the desperately needed facilities on my linux box. It does not work that well. Kernel panics almost every time it comes out of sleep. The funniest part is that there is a delay. Yesterday after waking up the kernel panic was like 10 minutes later.

HL2 back up. 12:34

Backed-up the half-life 2 files. I wanted to do that badly as some games need 100s of MBs to be downloaded to get up-to-date (from the package I had bought). Its a bit surprising to see that the whole back up is only around 3Gigs. While the data files total up to 6 Gigs. I wonder if its doing some kinda informed compression. It definitely appeared that way from the kinda time it took to prepare the backup. I hope it works when I need it.