Return to the Land of Flouresence
So here I am, seated in my shared office (eep! office!), at my desk (augh! desk!), discussing security cards and paperwork (ick! security cards and paperwork!) with my coworkers. Yes, folx, that's right, I'm back in the land of the 9-5, the desk-bound, eyes bleary from a day in front of a monitor. At least this time around, I'm working for The Side of Good, helping local non-profits get their techno-mo-logical shit together. And, in an added perk, I'm working in an M$-optional office. That's right, I'm happily back at the controls of a Linux box.
No real word on how the job'll be, since I just started today and spent the whole time figuring out/configuring KDE to some semblance of "I like it" and getting ALSA to work. (It wasn't actually broken... it's just that the guy who had the machine before me never bothered to unmute the master channel. Snort.)
In other exciting news, I've signed on to help birth Free Geek Chicago, a Windy City iteration of the amazing Portland-based computer recycling program. I'll also be starting volunteer shifts at New World Resource Center, and keeping up with Working Bikes work. I promised myself while I was on the road that when I came back, I'd quit wasting my time. It looks like I'm not going to have any problem with that one.
Ummm... yeah, that's about it.
No real word on how the job'll be, since I just started today and spent the whole time figuring out/configuring KDE to some semblance of "I like it" and getting ALSA to work. (It wasn't actually broken... it's just that the guy who had the machine before me never bothered to unmute the master channel. Snort.)
In other exciting news, I've signed on to help birth Free Geek Chicago, a Windy City iteration of the amazing Portland-based computer recycling program. I'll also be starting volunteer shifts at New World Resource Center, and keeping up with Working Bikes work. I promised myself while I was on the road that when I came back, I'd quit wasting my time. It looks like I'm not going to have any problem with that one.
Ummm... yeah, that's about it.