Time flies when you ignore your blog
July 13th, 2006 @ 12:46 by NormMonkey
From the updates department:
Quick updates:
1) Laptop woes
2) Fun week
3) Vegas, baby!
LAPTOP WOES
So my new laptop is here. In fact I’m bloggin’ on it *right now* (shield your eyes!). It has taken me a long time getting this thing set up. Details are at http://grinning-monkey.gnurple.net/index.php/Debian_on_a_Dell_Latitude_D620. Mostly it has been difficult because suspend and resume are evil things to try and get working in Linux. Evil, I say.
Like the fruit of the devil.
FUN WEEK
Weeks start on Sunday, right? Right. So:
* Sunday: Watched the FIFA World Cup over at P&M’s. Then went to BCB’s housewarming.
* Monday: I can’t remember what specifically made Monday fun, but fun it was. Oh, yes.
I just wish I could remember why, exactly.
* Tuesday: Helped do drywalling at P&M’s. AZROLB: How is drywalling “fun”, exactly? Well, AZROLB, some of us *like* combining hanging out with friends and doing physical activities. It’s even more fun than having a fake conversation on your blog with the personification of a non-entity.
* Wednesday: Had lunch with the Ex-Linuxcare crew at So Good, which is always so good. Especially the peanut-chicken dish which deserves an extra “So” all to itself, that it can cherish and display proudly on the mantle. In the chicken coop. To inspire other chickens to Be One with the peanut.
AZROLB: If he keeps going with this, there will soon be a new religion, and it will be fowl indeed
… and if that weren’t enough to make Wednesday fun, after work I went downtown to the Honest Lawyer and met an excellent, friendly girl. We had us some brewed BEvERages and a snack. We walked down to the park whose name I *still* can’t remember where the BluesFesters are festering. I particularly enjoyed that we had a mostly ongoing conversation throughout, with suprprisingly few silent moments. She must be a good conversationalist ’cause I know that there are not many people with whom I can carry on a good conversation with for a good long time. I hope we will meet again.
* Thursday: Why that’s today! This morning I got my bike bag packed and I was ready to go to work. I checked my bike’s tires. The rear one was a little low. I started to inflate it. It started making a hissing sound. I had to drive to work. I will get a new tube on the way home.
No, it was not fun. Not fun at all. In fact it seems like the sort of thing Marvin the Paranoid Android would go on about.
So what makes Thursday fun? Well, I had some good luck with my laptop. That’s not really fun, but at least there’s no air hissing out of my laptop.
I will make sure that somehow, somewhere, there is fun to be had on Thursday. The day is not over. There is still time. Ready and forward! <insert enthusiastic motivational statement here>
* Friday: Friday hasn’t happened yet. But it will, and when it does, it will be fun. After all, is not Friday the best of breed? Worthy of a T-Shirt, I think.
* Saturday: I will probably spend some of this day and its predecessor packing clothes and stuff. Packing is not necessarily fun, but the *reason* for it is. Besides, the reason for packing is fun….
VEGAS, BABY!
I’m goin’ ta Vegas, baby, yeah! (← An unwritten constitutional amendment states that you have to say “baby” after you say “Vegas”) The office is sending me down to help promote our new product and stuff. At a trade show. In Vegas. Baby!! WOO! I fly down on Sunday and fly back on Wednesday. Sunday night will be my “wander and take pictures” night. Apparently there’s some sort of party on Monday night. Tuesday night is for seeing Elton John at the Red Piano concert.
Well, that’s all I have for now. I would say something about taking pictures of the old and new laptops to put up here, but we all know what happens to promises I make at the end of a blog about the next blog. Besides, if my laptop wakes me up again like it has the last couple of nights with its broken charging-circuit, there won’t be anything left to take pictures of.
