Not much to report in the life category, as things progress apace. The Linux learning curve is certainly fun, and I’m struggling to wrap my brain around Vi, which is an interesting task. Knowing my own proclivities, I think that I will really love the editor after I learn some of the basics, and it [...]
I’m making some progress towards a few of my goals. I placed an order on Amazon for a couple books on self-edification, including an A+ study guide, a personal copy of 7 Habits, and a few books on Taoism. Now I just have to hope the UPS guy actually delivers them, instead of making repeated [...]
This week has been both fun and frustrating. On the one hand, I’ve had my new computer to play with, which is good for hours and hours of fun. On the other hand, it seems that my new computer doesn’t like my old CD-writer, since it hangs at boot, trying to boot off a non-existent [...]
So this weekend was interesting. It started Friday night with being unable to access the internet. Mark decided that it was my fault for some reason (he seems to think that a lot, sometimes) and wanted me to fix it. I did some preliminary poking around, and decided that the external connection wasn’t working for [...]
For whatever reason, this week’s movies ended up being of the horror/thriller variety. Two very good movies, for those who haven’t seen them yet: Frailty and The Ring. Not sure how they’ll hold up for re-watchability, but we’ll see.
The rest of my copious free time has been dedicated to rpg research for the campaign world. [...]