so it seems that i’m not quite as far along as i’d thought, if only because getting to where i need to be will kill me during the summer. so rather than do that, we’ll not and move on during the fall. i’ll need to get some advisement before fall registration begins from […]

My school has a totally awful registration system that apparently is outsourced. It has the unpleasant feature of being totally down from midnight Saturday morning until 6:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. That’s right, you can’t register, look at your grades, drop courses, print a transcript, or anything similar all day Sunday or Monday. […]

I got a butt-kicking today from Sue, who says I sleep too much. She’s actually right. I went to sleep yesterday about 9:30 pm and didn’t get up for almost 18 hours. And I’ve done that several days in a row.
i hate feeling like this.

trying to get dc running. i found a linux client called dcgui-qt and it seems to work but the bandwidth limitation rules in it absolutely suck and kill my bandwidth. bad bad. trying to learn how to do it in linux but nobody knows and/or wants to help.
michelle added me to her […]

at times it’s hard for me to read some blogs about infertility, but there are also times when you read one that kinda warm the heart.
i remain ever so greatful for the luck we had with ours, but reading about the heartbreak of it all is hard sometimes.
if any of yall read this from […]

gentoo’s admin-level interface is considerably different than most other distributions. it uses sysv-init, unlike my much beloved slack, and has a reasonable package management system, near as i can tell, like debian. it doesn’t seem to suffer (yet) from the stupidity of rpm hell, so that’s a plus. some of the very […]

sue’s been grouchy all weekend. no fun. i spent the weekend installing gentoo. despite the slowness of the install (since i did a stage 1), i do like it.

audio conversion from audible format to mp3 format … is slow and painful. but it’s going. her dogliness has offered a cpq machine for the purpose. it’s some kind of old pentium ii job with 64 megs of ram, and at some point in the distant past i put a 5 gig […]