Two steps forward, one back. Give or take.
a) few days ago, a server at work asked if I could take a look at his laptop, as 'the internet isn't working anymore.' Sure. Turns out, the only thing wrong with it was... uh, nothing? I took a look at it on the patio at work, and everything seemed to work fine. Other than the most obvious problem, which was that it ran Windows XP. This was only a problem because I realized I have exactly zero clue how to use Windows anymore.
I danced. (Not that I'm a zealot.)
Hell, it's gotten to the point where using Windows makes me slightly physically uncomfortable. I had a computer running Windows for a while in Cheyenne, for D&D Online and such, but one day I realized that it had been several weeks since it had been turned on, and all I'd used was my netbook (running Arch Linux) in the interim. Before then, it had been since early 2007 that I'd used Linux for 100% of my personally-owned computers. The computer I have hooked up to my TV is running Windows XP right now, but it just boots into XBMC and stays there forever, with short bursts to play emulators. (And if it wasn't for the lack of pretty frontends for emulators on Linux, I wouldn't even have to mention this caveat.) It took about 15 years to build up a certain sector of knowledge in my brain, and a third of that to almost completely remove and replace it. Pretty happy about it!
2) times today. I have listened to all of The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me by Brand New twice today, and I will almost certainly listen to it at least once tomorrow. In fact, I've probably listened to this album on average of once a day for the last... three weeks? Why did it take me so long to hear this? Also been listening to a lot of mewithoutYou (especially Catch for Us the Foxes), The Dust of Retreat every week or so, and a fair bit of August and Everything After, too. So, apparently, I'm emo again.
(This is only strange to me because, for the last year and a half before I moved down here, all I listened to was classic rock and prog rock. Like, 24/7. I guess this is what happens when I don't have my turntable hooked up all the time... or not be high constantly. sad me.)
iii) aaaam tiiiired of not having any appreciable income. so so so sick of it. /whine.
I danced. (Not that I'm a zealot.)
Hell, it's gotten to the point where using Windows makes me slightly physically uncomfortable. I had a computer running Windows for a while in Cheyenne, for D&D Online and such, but one day I realized that it had been several weeks since it had been turned on, and all I'd used was my netbook (running Arch Linux) in the interim. Before then, it had been since early 2007 that I'd used Linux for 100% of my personally-owned computers. The computer I have hooked up to my TV is running Windows XP right now, but it just boots into XBMC and stays there forever, with short bursts to play emulators. (And if it wasn't for the lack of pretty frontends for emulators on Linux, I wouldn't even have to mention this caveat.) It took about 15 years to build up a certain sector of knowledge in my brain, and a third of that to almost completely remove and replace it. Pretty happy about it!
2) times today. I have listened to all of The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me by Brand New twice today, and I will almost certainly listen to it at least once tomorrow. In fact, I've probably listened to this album on average of once a day for the last... three weeks? Why did it take me so long to hear this? Also been listening to a lot of mewithoutYou (especially Catch for Us the Foxes), The Dust of Retreat every week or so, and a fair bit of August and Everything After, too. So, apparently, I'm emo again.
(This is only strange to me because, for the last year and a half before I moved down here, all I listened to was classic rock and prog rock. Like, 24/7. I guess this is what happens when I don't have my turntable hooked up all the time... or not be high constantly. sad me.)
iii) aaaam tiiiired of not having any appreciable income. so so so sick of it. /whine.