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mimdancer aren't. It came with a 'game' for eye training. M went shopping on Sunday morning, and now I also have the Shaun the Sheep game (which M has played through to completion...) and a Marvel Universe Superhero "fight" game, which is actually a Magic: The Gathering style card game in electronic form. I have not yet figured out WTF is supposed to be happening, let alone how to deal a single goddamned card into play.
Saturday night the girls stayed at Ninna's, and M and I went tokitling and co's Midsummer Madness Party. We are not in our early twenties any more. Caught up with people we haven't seen, in my case, some in over a decade.
Sunday was Chanukkah dinner. Mimdancer has spoken about that.
Today I really start counting down to holidays. Some chasing up old jobs, some cleaning up, some setting up ready for people to take over in January.
Have been trying to update laptop for break. It was Kubuntu 7.04 feisty. I used the 7.10 alternate to do a dist-upgrade. Hrmph. I told it to download the most recent of whatever. So it started downloading about 1.5 GB of stuff from the internets. 8 or so hours later, it was ready to continue. It sat and thought for a while, then declared that it would be finished in another 15 hours, give or take a second. I wanted to go home and finish it later, but discovered that it would not pause, or break, or even stop. When it says "this may not be interrupted, it means it. So I killed the power, took it home and rebooted, hoping to finish it by hand.
I was making good progress, until this morning, when I came in and set it off on the last part of its process, to discover that it wouldn't come back up. I put in the recovery CD and ran fsck, to discover that it was fscked. And then it couldn't find grub. And the recovery CD said that there was no usable system in the root partition. Ah fuck.
So I've just installed 8.10. It's pretty, but KDE4 is too big and clunky for the machine, and I don't like the window decorations, and I don't like Dolphin and I'm pissed off now.
TW said that after the stocktake that he'd let me borrow one of the D620s, instead of the C620 I've got, but nothing came of that. And I know it's petty and selfish, but that pisses me off too. Cause it's too fucking late now to set that up before the break. So I'm stuck with a quart of OS trying to fit into a pint of processor on an old crappy laptop, and trying to put it back halfway like what I like, and ah fuck it.
Fuck fuck fuckitty fuck fuck fuck.
At least some of the niggling little bugbears have cleared up. I'm pretty sure it wasn't worth the pain.
I am now the proud owner of a black Nintendo DS. If I make a real effort, I may get to use it when Miss A, Miss S and
mimdancer aren't. It came with a 'game' for eye training. M went shopping on Sunday morning, and now I also have the Shaun the Sheep game (which M has played through to completion...) and a Marvel Universe Superhero "fight" game, which is actually a Magic: The Gathering style card game in electronic form. I have not yet figured out WTF is supposed to be happening, let alone how to deal a single goddamned card into play.Saturday night the girls stayed at Ninna's, and M and I went to
kitling and co's Midsummer Madness Party. We are not in our early twenties any more. Caught up with people we haven't seen, in my case, some in over a decade.Sunday was Chanukkah dinner. Mimdancer has spoken about that.
Today I really start counting down to holidays. Some chasing up old jobs, some cleaning up, some setting up ready for people to take over in January.
Have been trying to update laptop for break. It was Kubuntu 7.04 feisty. I used the 7.10 alternate to do a dist-upgrade. Hrmph. I told it to download the most recent of whatever. So it started downloading about 1.5 GB of stuff from the internets. 8 or so hours later, it was ready to continue. It sat and thought for a while, then declared that it would be finished in another 15 hours, give or take a second. I wanted to go home and finish it later, but discovered that it would not pause, or break, or even stop. When it says "this may not be interrupted, it means it. So I killed the power, took it home and rebooted, hoping to finish it by hand.
I was making good progress, until this morning, when I came in and set it off on the last part of its process, to discover that it wouldn't come back up. I put in the recovery CD and ran fsck, to discover that it was fscked. And then it couldn't find grub. And the recovery CD said that there was no usable system in the root partition. Ah fuck.
So I've just installed 8.10. It's pretty, but KDE4 is too big and clunky for the machine, and I don't like the window decorations, and I don't like Dolphin and I'm pissed off now.
TW said that after the stocktake that he'd let me borrow one of the D620s, instead of the C620 I've got, but nothing came of that. And I know it's petty and selfish, but that pisses me off too. Cause it's too fucking late now to set that up before the break. So I'm stuck with a quart of OS trying to fit into a pint of processor on an old crappy laptop, and trying to put it back halfway like what I like, and ah fuck it.
Fuck fuck fuckitty fuck fuck fuck.
At least some of the niggling little bugbears have cleared up. I'm pretty sure it wasn't worth the pain.
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Date: 2008-12-22 09:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-23 01:19 am (UTC)The main reason to come back to the mainland is (of course) for family annoying. However, we are free boxing day eve, & all day Saturday.
What are you all doing?
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Date: 2008-12-23 02:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-22 09:20 pm (UTC)I'm borrowing (have already borrowed) my 24" LCD monitor over the break.
You could even ask to borrow Saeed's new laptop, since he's leaving he won't be taking receipt of it. You could (accurately?) claim that you need to learn to support Mac as part of your day job, and the summer break is the perfect opportunity to do so ;-)
Better get in quick today, though, so that you can get the loan forms signed by MR!
-- mpp
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Date: 2008-12-23 05:18 am (UTC)PS: I've already planned to take one of the new MacBook's home for the holidays. There is no shortage of hardware.