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My craving for spicy food started friday morning when some guys in #goddess were talking about getting together to watch movies and stuff on saturday night.. they mentioned getting chips and salsa, mmm chips and salsa. So when we went to that little party on friday night I was quite happy that they had chips and salsa, but it obviously wasnt enough. Saturday it rained, all day, and it was very cold. So we decided just to stay in, but around 11 pm I started to get the munchies. So I went out to the 24 grocery store and picked up a bag of christmas colored tortilla chips and some natural salsa… as well as some Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food Ice Cream %d Then on sunday I realized I STILL wanted spicy food, but was reluctant to dive into the chips and salsa again so we gave in and bought Indian food, YUMMIE!

All this weekend was spent trying to get my onboard lan card to work in linux, since it’s sorta silly to have two nic cards if one will do… No luck. It was so insane, we ended up reinstalling debian, recompiling the kernal several times, installing different distros, and of course made sure the card worked by trying it in windows (it does work). So my computer was pretty much down all day sunday, which sorta sucked, but I did get online on Myk’s computer long enough to make the topic in #13thHour “happy birthday tsukiyo” (a fellow chatter) and make an ecard for her, and of course check my email %) So no luck with the nic card.. it’s very frustrating. See, the problem was that we had a pci nic card in there, but we started seeing collisions. Now there should not be collisions on our network! We found out that it probably was not software related (since I had the same setup on my old box, with no trouble, all that has changed is hardware), and it’s the same nic card we had before, so we suspected the trouble was that somewhere along the line having two nic cards, even though one was turned off by the bios AND didnt have drivers. We suspected this because there was no other logical explaination %) So there supposedly is a linux driver for this, we consulted the PLUG list to see if we could get help, but alas nothing seems to work. We are thinking that it’s possible the driver is looking in the wrong place for it or something, it’s just a big pain, and the weekend was too short. I am afraid of doing anything myself (not that i *could* screw up too much at this point…) so I have to wait for Myk… Hey I’ve only been using Linux for about 10 months (9 of those with Redhat), Debian for a month, I might be able to compile a kernal myself, but I’m still a bit of a n00b ;)

I am a bad person, I dont recycle. We don’t get paper newspapers so I dont have to worry about throwing those out, and we do use most of the junk mail we get as paper for the fireplace (oh joy in burning junkmail). But as for bottles and stuff, even soda bottles, we throw them out. I think this is entirely due to the lack of bottle deposit in PA. In New York and Maine, and all states with a bottle deposit, not only was it easy to recycle (just bring them to the grocery store) but you also got money back! Why don’t they have bottle deposit in all states? It’s a very good idea, I am the perfect example. I suppose I really should find a recycling dropoff place around here, recycling really is good, and it’s only inexcusable laziness that prevents me from taking part.

So I need to go get my driver’s license so I am considered a full resident of PA and all that. I know I am supposed to do that within 60 days of moving here, but I was reluctant to do that, mostly because I’d just have to get it reissued on my 21st birthday (they have a different style license if you are under 21. So I figured I’d wait til I turned 21… that was a month and a half ago. It’s very simple to transfer a license from another state to here, just go in with Social Security card, old license, birth certificate, and at least 2 things proving new residency here (utlitiy bills with my name, or lease, or tax stuff…), then fill out all sorts of terrible paperwork, and take an eye exam. None of this is hard except the eye exam. I haven’t been to the eye doctor in over 4 years, and the other day I noticed I was squinting at the television.. my vision has gotten pretty bad. So just go to the eye doctor and get new glasses right? Oh Catch 22! One of the biggest reasons for getting insurance is so we could pay for the eye exam and new glasses (we can afford it out of pocket, but it IS expensive, insurance would help)… but one of the things I need in order to get on Myk’s insurance is a driver’s license with my current PA address on it, that matches Myk’s, DOH! I suppose I could TRY to pass the eye exam at the DMV, as it shouldnt be too terrible.. *sigh* I suppose if I fail the eye exam there I could just go to the eye doctor and go back to the DMV after that, I shouldn’t worry about it too much.

Ok, I am gonna go reply to some emails and get some stuff done *wanders off*

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  • MorganHorse
    Monday, Nov 18th, 2002 at 19:13

    We still have recycle bins and stuff for cans but I don’t know that anyone ever takes them in.  We had a can deposit in Missouri until last spring when the powers that be decided to get rid of it.  Why?  Dunno.  But I have to say I like Maine where anything that remotely resembles a beverage container gets a return (fifteen cents for wine bottles!)  My mom’s pretty adamant about recycling everything so I’m always shocked when I see someone throw a can in the trash.  It probably doesn’t make a huge difference to recycle, but it doesn’t hurt, either.