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Dido – Take My Hand

I have been sneezing all morning, ick. I don’t know why I so often wake up feeling like I have a cold.. usually it goes away by noon.

We had some Chouffe last night.. we keep putting it in the fridge to drink in the evening, then deciding we don’t really want to drink and taking it out, but of course that is bad for the beer. So finally last night we decided to drink it. This was probably not the wisest thing to do, both Myk and I were exhausted because of the lousy night sleep monday night, and drinking beer when you are tired is baaad, especially when it’s only 7:30 pm. So what happened? By 8 pm we had had 2 beers each (remember, it’s 8% alcohol Chouffe) and we were in bed sleeping. Now I am sure I have mentioned this before, but I have a *terrible* time falling asleep at night when I take naps, especially when that nap is a few hours before my normal going to sleep time. I ended up waking up around 10, cursing myself for falling asleep. I left Myk sleeping, he ended up getting up around 11:30. During this this I was very awake… it seems that I am more alert and able to get work done when my sleep schedule is irregular, I don’t quite understand this because inevitably when I have an irregular sleep schedule I actually sleep LESS than I do when I sleep normally. Maybe I am just so much of a night person that I just can’t properly function during the day no matter how much sleep I get %) Eak I lost track of what I was talking about.

Uh… Right. So I got up around 9:30 last night after a short nap and was able to get the “How-To” written for binding those other keys in Linux. It was really just a revision and addition to a page I already have up… I bound my windows keys in Red Hat back when I was using that, so I had a little section on my page for that… I pretty much just added the Debian instructions and a “FAQ” section. You can check out the page here: http://www.princessleia.com/Windowsbind.html … Myk wanted to add it to the PLUG HowTo Archive but I dunno.. it seems pretty simple, I think Myk is just overly excited because I took the time to figure out something cool, without any help.

It feels really good to get sections revised on my site.. and even better when I found my site on google searches yet again when I was looking for stuff… the search: bind windows keys and: windows keys linux has my little howto site is the first hit … it’s the second hit for: linux bind keys That’s so leet %) Maybe someone will someday have use for my site! Not that they havent in the past, I certainly don’t give myself enough credit sometimes(like when I say that my site is “little” hehe).

I decided to go to bn.com and cancel the last book on my order. It’s really a pain that they havent shipped it yet. I can do without that book (it was sorta impulse anyway)… the whole point of ordering these books before I had finished all from the last shipment was so I’d have them BEFORE I went on vacation next week, so I dont have a box of books on my doorstep for days telling the whole neighborhood that we are not home. Luckily the rest of my order was shipped on Friday so I should get it before I leave.

So after that big weekend mess playing with my lan card we ended up reinstalling debian. I am using stable now instead of testing (testing does not get consitant security updates or something apparently…). Now this wouldnt bother me much, stable is good right? Well it’s a bit quirky, especially with it’s pasting methods. I cannot seem to paste from opera into a Gnome Terminal. Now this may not be a big thing for most people, but I use Gnome Terminals (don’t have experiance with eterm, maybe i should use it… and xterm just sucks) as my main x terminal… and Opera as my primary browser.. and so of course I am going to use both these together constantly. Bleh… I’ve been opening an xterm to paste between the two … ick.

Woohoo! I just got a knock on the door (freaking because I still have my pj’s on) and I looked outside, no one there… So I opened the door and there was my box of books, yay! This is the second time the UPS guy has just knocked on the door and run off before I could even see them, they are strange like that… Growing up they’d always wait at the door for like 5 minutes, I guess they just assume no one is home… but the first time this happened it scared me… I mean someone walking up to the door, knocking on the door and when I look outside no one is there? Isn’t that a way to gain entry into an apartment for bad things?! I’m really not a paranoid person… really.

Anyway, since I am still in my pajamas I should go get showered and dressed, since it’s almost noon, gah! *wanders off*

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One Comment

  • MorganHorse
    Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2002 at 14:04

    The way you describe the UPS men sounds like you’re talking about gnomes or something.  You hear them, but then they scamper away before you can see them!  They shall now be renamed gnomes in little brown shorts.