Not so much from the what happened point of view as from the “thank God it’s over” point of view. For some reason I was shattered this week – I essentially passed out around 9 p.m. on Wednesday night and slept right through. Then my bloody ankle started to act up- just when I thought it was getting better…..
On the plus side I found the excellent Dia program which should do as a nice replacement for Visio – who needs licensed software anyway?
Well, now that things are settling down a bit I find I have a bit of spare time on my hands. I have plenty of things on my to-do list but I’ve got some stuff done. First off I have kicked off the transition of Comerford.cc to PHP Nuke. I won’t be using Dreamweaver to administer the site anymore, because I no longer have a license for it with the change of job, hence the transition to a more web based management of the site.
Woohoo! – I got my learners permit! This time I got every question right, though if I’d had this test last time I would have had no trouble then either – just the luck of the draw I guess….. Now all I have to do is learn how to drive before my car arrives next month Yesterday was a pretty good day all round in fact – as well as the successful test, the Pistons destroyed the Lakers.
Finally got around to installing linux (fedora core2) on the laptop – it is working quite well, I even have wireless networking going on it, using the Netgear WG511 card I bought a while back – Nice Also have the bare bones for 2 new systems – one dual PIII 1Ghz and one dual PIII 866. The second one will be donated at cost to Mr. Irwin who has been good enough to drive me around the whole time and populate my apartment The other will be my default file/web/whatever server on my home network.
Just realised I never mentioned the new chair – My Lazboy arrived on Saturday and I’m glad tosay it rocks On the bad side of things – I managed to fail the theory test on the Virginia drivers license exam so I have to re-take it tomorrow……..grrrr
What’s annoying is that I needed 20 correct out of 25 and I got 19 – the last question was how much more likely you are to have an accident if you are drunk – 5 times, 7 times, 10 times or 12 times.
Yesterday wasn’t bad – in order to keep myself busy I cleaned the place up a bit – moved a book case to where it is going to live permanently, relocated all of my computers to the new desk, fitted a mod-chip to the X-Box and fitted a half length PCI graphics card to my Qube – whew!
At least now I can use the nice shiny new LCD that I got from Iiyama rather than the television.
Jen left last night and it was 10 times worse than when we said goodbye back in the Old Country – at least then I had all the excitement of going to a new job, a new country, a new apartment etc. Even the fact that my Lazboy recliner is coming tomorrow can’t cheer me up. It’s DMV time once again this week too which does nothing for my mood – though hopefully they’ll at least accept my application.
My apartment now looks like someone actually lives there, my DVD’s, CD’s and books are up off the floor, though not arranged in any meaningful order yet 😉 As soon as the desk arrives (should be tomorrow) I’ll post some decent pictures of the whole thing. The only disaster was the CD storage unit I got from IKEA – I put it together, after having a few drinks at 1 a.
Woohoo – she’ll be here tomorrow! – which probably means I need to clean the place up a bit – uh oh Since Jen’s going to get a car we’ll be able to at least grab some furniture so she’ll have somewhere to sit – and she has timed it perfectly for the pool opening on the weekend. While I’m slaving away in work, she can lie by the pool and fight with the cicadas Got my HDTV Cable hookup – unfortunately the on-demand function seems to have broken in the meantime, so I have to get out early again today so someone can come look at it.
That’s right, this is the week, Jen arrives on Thursday and will be staying right through to the following Sunday – Yay! Also on the good news front, I now have Cable TV, Broadband and a new mattress. On the not-so-good-news-for-Jenny front I still don’t have a bed frame, a couch, or even something besides the floor for her to sit on……
On the other hand that does mean that she will have plenty of reasons to do that favourite female pastime – shopping!