Hello. Here comes another brief posting in list form!
- Met Nausicaa. She was feeding gulls doritos off a ferry. Imagine being a few metres above sea level, moving steadily forward, with a flock of gulls flying parallel to to your course, a couple metres away, alternately swooping in to grab a dorito from your hand. Watch out for feces and sharp beaks.
- Had another delicious eating at Pizza Hut, meeting a member of the Kingdom of Simafort en route who gave us directions was intimidated by my masculinity.
- Upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 on my Acer Travelmate C100 only to have X fail to come up. I am trying to debug the issue now.
- Retrieved Belladonna (my Acer Aspire 5100 with the ... motherboard issues? It fails to detect the hard drive, but it's not the hard drive's fault: I can try a known good working one and still have the problem!) I'm running it off of a USB Live installation of Fedora 9. It's working better than I fear and a bit worse than I could have dreamed of. It boots really quickly; in under 20 seconds perhaps. However, when I accidentally filled up the overlay (which is misreported to Fedora as being almost 4 times larger than it is), the installation was ruined, and I had to re-make it.
- I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show (film) in a theatre on Halloween with my girlfriend and a ferry friend. It was also tricky getting home, somewhat, as we were on the verge of not having running buses, or bus passes. That was rectified by a 7/11, which also fed us an Egg Salad sandwich. My girlfriend also made a variety of noises with a fellow there.
- Earlier on Halloween night, I went Trick or Eat'ing with a pair of grapes and Wenda. My French Maid Magenta joined us later in the evening. I'm not used to fireworks on Halloween, but there were plenty of hooligans to introduce us to whizzy crack-bangs.
- Acquired a 15" LCD screen from a work auction. I had also bid a ridiculous amount on a tablet PC that ended up going for still more. Sadly, I cannot seem to get Ubuntu to do more than mirror its screen to this alternative laptop. Sigh. I'll see if a coworker wants it after all.
- My hands are greasy from taping stars to the sky.
- It will be another bus ride home. I can't underrecommend Greyhounding across the country. It's terribly uncomfortable and the sights are blurred by filthy windows: it's awesome. I'm being sincere and not sarcastic. It's a lot of fun, stopping off at random places that you'd never consider visiting, driving between mountains, along Saskatchen planes of wheat, boring through the northern forests of Ontario (well, relatively northern), hugging the great lakes, and feeling chilled in Winnipeg. (Last May, there was still snow and ice in Winnipeg, and now we'll be going in December!)
- I work too much. If I was better at "managing people's expectations" and not promising more than is reasonable, I'd probably be more comfortable in this regard.
- Saw a James Bond double features: Casino Royale on Thursday at 9:30PM followed by Quantum of Solace on Friday at 12:00AM. It helps remind me to be a bit more confident about myself. It cost us a total of $4 for the seats: we had free passes from when we saw Batman's sequel earlier this year at the same theatre, and we used those for Quantum of Solace. Casino Royale only cost $2 per person. Consequently, to make up for the money saved, I purchased a Quantum of Solace Empire Combo thing. It's usually atrociously expensive, but it was only madly expensive since we had a $3 coupon from the Batman session as well. It was worth getting this amazing combo because it allowed us free refills of the popcorn and a reusable beverage cup. Having gotten both refilled, it was like getting the combo twice at half the price!
- Sometimes I think I should have pursued CSIS.
- Sadly, I missed two potential Kendo socials and two special Kendo practises last week due to overworkiness, and that makes me sad.
- Comments apparently do not work here right now.
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