o/` Fisher – Good Intentions o/`

Last night… last night. Ah, we are upgrading the irc server to beta17 this week, and clockbot is moving to a new computer, ah! This means there is a server change AND a DNS change going on that will probably comprimise connections for a couple days. I emailed everyone who I had email for, but that’s not everyone, here’s the email I sent out for everyone who hasn’t seen it:

We are currently working to upgrade the irc server and move it to another location.

Although we are working to make this move go as smoothly as possible, you may have still have some trouble connecting to irc.clockbot.net during the changes this week.

This is what you should do:

First, try to connect to irc.clockbot.net (this is important, you MUST try this first!)

If this fails, you can try to connect to 65.125.10.145

If both of these fail then you can just connect to deep13.xelium.net … but keep in mind that they are undergoing similar server upgrades.

NOTE: If you normally just connect to irc.xelium.net that’s fine, just keep in mind that it might try to connect you to clockbot, and so might fail on some attempts.

This email is also reproduced on the #13thHour Page … so hopefully everyone will be informed and I wont get tons of emails screaming about not being able to connect.

Even if I did get tons of emails about it, they wouldn’t be replied to until after the havok is over ;) Myk and I have decided to head up to the Poconos on thursday night for a relaxing computer-free cabin weekend in the mountains. Woo! His birthday is on Sunday, and he’s really been wanting to go hiking recently, so it’ll make for a nice birthday I think. And I could do with a computer break… even on my trip up to maine I came back into irc several times.

I don’t know if we’re going to go to PLUG tomorrow… we keep changing our minds. It’d be nice to meet the newest philly chick, but i will meet her next week, this week is just so busy. My uncle is supposed to call me sometime this week too to see if he has time to stop by and visit. If he calls tomorrow and wants to have dinner or something then there is really no chance that we’re going to PLUG. *shrugs*

I knitted a lot yesterday, and chatted. Actually learned how to knit and purl through a backloop by reading online documentation on it %) What did I do before the internet? It was a nice getting away from computer focus for a day, and I am proud of the progress i’ve made with knitting %)

Today I am really going to try and finish up that enlightenment thing. Yep, so I’m going to go do that now… I’ll try and get it done so I can post it here and have people offer comments and suggestions… *wanders off*

o/` Naked Eyes – Always Something The To Remind Me o/`

Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh ugh…. UGH! Yesterday afternoon I was using my laptop in the bedroom, it was fine, I wasn’t online because we dont have ethernet cable that goes that far, but I was able to focus on writing 4 emails. These weren’t “hey how are you? I’m good, cya around” … these were some seriously long emails that I write to people who I don’t contact by any other means. After writing them to text files, I shut the laptop down and Myk and I went for a walk. I come back from the walk, go to turn it on, things seem to boot up fine, then I try to launch x. Segmentation Fault (I don’t remember the exact error with this). Now that’s weird… Then the laptop shut itself off. Gah! I reboot.

I get a grub error, the system hangs indefinately.

What. The. Fuck.

I grabbed Myk. The first thing he asked is if it had power, “of course” I said. So we walk into the bedroom and he says “hey babe, it’s not plugged in” AH! I didn’t unplug it intentionally, I must have stepped on the cord or something and it unplugged. Well, he put in Gentoo’s grub rescue disk and none of the usual methods of system recovery were working. Crap!!! My theory is that it couldnt launch x because it didn’t have enough power, and the battery b0rked and shut the machine down uncleanly. Maybe there was something going on that made it dangerous to shutdown uncleanly at that point? I don’t know, but my whole gentoo install is crap now… nearly a week of work and fighting to get that goddamned system installed and it’s corrupted. The strangest part is that I thought reiserfs would have been able to deal with that sort of unclean shutdown, I guess not. So all those emails I wrote yesterday are gone (they were just text files, I never got a chance to send them out), and my laptop is back to having no OS. I don’t even want to look at it right now because I’m so upset. *sigh* We might just throw redhat 7.2 on it so I have a laptop to bring with me to plug, but this is all very disappointing…

Now since computers make me so angry I won’t talk about them anymore in this entry %) I think I might spend the afternoon knitting. But first I have a couple stories to tell.

The Deck Phone Man

Our apartment complex is quite nice, it’s only 2 stories and each “unit” is 4 apartments, two downstairs and two upstairs. Most units are connect to one another, but we’re one of the lucky apartments to have an end unit. Well, about 4 units down a man lives upstairs who loves to talk on his phone on his deck. The first time I saw him doing it I didn’t think much of it, sure he’s loud and anyone walking by can hear what he is saying, but it was a nice day and he just wanted to stand outside while talking. After a few more times I just started laughing at the situation because it seems that he WANTS people to hear what he is saying. “Oh we just closed that deal for around 100k, haha! Yeah, I know, haha! Exactly. Yes, do you believe he wants us to get preseason tickets, haha! Yeah! Haha!” … I wish I was joking. One time I was sitting on the couch reading with the windows open, and the wind was blowing so I could hear *everything* he was saying, and it was really getting annoying. I guess it’s kind of sad because this guy must be so lonely, but at the same time he acts like a self-important asshole.

Krispy Kreme Adventure

Krispy Kreme is on the cover of Fortune Magazine. Upon noticing this Myk mentioned to one of his co-workers that it was ashame there weren’t any in the area. Quickly his co-worker corrected him, there is one in Northwest Philly. Armed with this information he suggested we look for a closer location sometime, sure. Saturday night we were hanging out in our apartment, kinda bored, restless, wanting to take a walk but it was too dark. So I say “Hey, let’s go on a krispy kreme adventure!” I went online to find the closest location, and unfortunately the one in Northeast Philly was the closest one, and that’s about a half hour away. It was about 10:00 so I figured I’d
call for their hours. The lobby was open til midnight, and the drive-thru is open 24 hours a day! So Myk and I headed down to the northeast to pick up some krispy kremes. Myk had eaten a krispy kreme doughnut before (at my Aunt Elaine’s when he came to visit me), but he had never actually been to one, so he had never seen the krispy kreme donut machine! He was impressed with the “krispy kreme experience” Hehe… and the place was busy! It was a little after 10:30 pm and we had to wait in line! It was worth it though, we got a 2 original glazed, two glazed devil’s food, and two cinnamon apple filled, and we each got a hot chocolate. The hot chocolate was more like warm chocolate when we got home, but in all it was a nice adventure. The cinnamon apple filled was amazing, usually apple filling in such things are very sugary, but in these they were actually pleasantly appley, mmm!!!

Yep, those are my stories for this past weekend %)

I read more books:

Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, by John Berendt, 388 pages
Written by a man from New York this true story takes place in Savannah, Georgia. The first half of the book deals with the author’s entrance into the world of Savannah, a world of style, grace, and scandal. The beautiful homes and successful families only hide the more grisley side of the town from visitors. The cast of characters includes a vast variety, and it’s amusing to see how they all view each other. The second half of the book deals with a murder in this beautiful place, for once money cannot buy the defendant out of his trouble and is forced to fight the court for years, through a series of mistrials, which are interestingly documented in this book. I really enjoyed this book, which is unusual since I rarely read non-fiction, and when I do it’s usually historcal, not something this contemporary. The author did a good job at dwelling on people and subjects long enough for the reader to understand, but not so long that it gets boring. And even that aside, the real life glimpse of a city like Savannah was very interesting. I’d recommend this book to anyone.

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick, 216 pages
This is the book that inspired the movie “Bladerunner.” Unfortunately the last time I saw that movie was a number of years ago, and I don’t remember it much. From what I do remember this is quite different, but the message is the same. The earth has undergone a massive world war, most animals are extinct, and the survivng humans are encouraged to leave earth and live on space colonies. On these colonies there are androids who do work for the humans, and androids are not allowed on earth… but sometimes they escape. Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter in charge of “retiring” a group of the latest model androids (almost indistiguishable from humans) that escaped from Mars. Along the way he meets a few interesting characters, one of which is Rachael Rosen, who he realizes he feels a physical attraction to. The journey this book follows is that of Rick Deckard, trying to separate what is real with what is not, what is human with what is manufactured, and struggling with the real moral differences. I really enjoyed this book, I only wish it had been longer.

I just started re-reading Return Of The King last night, got about 100 pages into it after my laptop borked and I was too upset to touch a computer. “Read! I can’t break a book!” I said when Myk asked what I wanted to do to cheer me up %)

I got an email from an old friend in Seneca Falls the other day. I never really expected him to contact me again, I had an old phone number of his but he has moved since using it so it was disconnected. It’s cool though, I’m glad we can still communicate, I gave him my phone number so he said he would give me a call sometime so we could actually talk. He is in the reserves and was called into active duty after 9-11-01 so I never really got to say goodbye to him when I moved away from Seneca Falls. And I’m glad he doesn’t seem to “take my ex’s side” and hate me l
ike some of the other people there probably do.

I guess that’s it. *wanders off*

o/` Robert Rich – Lifeblood o/`

Last night we went over to the little BBQ/Pool party that Myk’s former co-workers were having. It was nice, I got to meet a number of the guys that I’ve heard so much about… of course I am sure I’ve forgotten more names than I retained. I guess I wasn’t *too* shy, I just had nothing really to say since they were mostly just talking about funny stuff from work in the past. We stayed for a couple hours.

I got home and hopped on my laptop for a bit, escapenguin helped me begin to learn how keybindings in fluxbox work, so now I have a number of keys bound the way I want them to be, and Myk gave me a tar file of his fluxbox configs so I was able to search through those and pick out what I needed. Installed Opera 6.03 last night as well, it runs ok, better than anything else I’m sure, but I can definately tell when it’s open ;) It’s nice finally having a brower on it.

#13thHour has been pleasantly busy lately, which is nice. Even before we moved from scifi last september our user number had dropped a bit, and as soon as we moved we lost a regular or two, which was ashame, but we just couldn’t put up with scifi’s icky server anymore. I am pleased with how the channel has grown in these past few months. Part of it comes from people in #deep13 getting bored and coming to see #13thHour (most of the deep13ers know that #13thHour is my other major haunt on the server), but most of it comes from people visiting from xanga and livejournal. Just in the past 3 months I’ve had blueminder, lazzurs, sevenoverzero, radbatik (Tarist, the first xanga person to accept my invitation, last fall), Naru_Chan, escapenguin, d_annie (briefly, and I missed her! But we chat on the linuxchix server too..), ltzany (Vehicle00), KennyG (RanchNacho), and piplio. And about half of these people actually come in on a regular basis, 3 of them even made it to the “members” page! I hope no one in #13thHour resents the growth in the channel… I was just getting tired of going in there after sleeping and seeing that the last person that spoke in there was me, so inviting everyone to that channel I thought would be better than creating another. It’s nice too because most of the people listed are *nix people, or have an active interest in computers that surpasses that of most other people, so it’s been easy for everyone to get along (with the sometimes amusing exception of Naru_Chan, Time has already kicked him a number of times). Also, Peacimowen recently invited an anime group to the server, and we got at least one member from that interested in joining #13thHour. It’s nice watching a channel grow again… and I’m happy that I can actually chat with some of the people I met in journals %)

Speaking of #13thHour (have I bored you to death yet?), that woman who I spoke about in a previous entry (the one who strongly dislikes me because of crap in the past, but came into #13thHour anyway) came back the other night when I was around. I guess she didn’t expect me to be there, she seemed disappointed when she learned I was. I was very nice to her, gave her and her husband ops, acted very interested in what she was doing in her life and such… but I still have no idea
where I stand with her. The entire time she still seemed distant. We’ll probably never had the closeness that we once had, but I wish I could talk her into being more than “just civil” .. it’s frustrating to be at such odds with someone. I am considering writing her an email to ask her exactly where she stands and offer a sort of truce… I dunno, I’ll think about it.

Um, oh! Tsukiyo came into #13thHour last night. She was one of the original members, along with Myk, Peacimowen and me… and she’s been crazy busy with work and school nd life… so she hadn’t been around for quite some time, even made it only to “Rarely Seen” section of the page, hehe. It was great seeing her.

Um… enough about irc! I did some more catching up on emails (oh, so talking about emails is better huh? Hehe…), I got about 1/3 of the way through all the people I need to write to, that still leaves a lot of writing to do… good thing my laptop is perfect for such things! I will probably snuggle on the couch with a blanket and my laptop this afternoon and be typing away. Right now I’m going to go organize a few “enlightenment tips” on the enlightenment page while I have a few I’m thinking about. *wanders off*

o/` Legend Soundtrack o/`

This laptop is so neat %) x only runs in 8-bit, but with the “default” theme in fluxbox it looks great (I tried a couple other themes and they looked *horrible*). I am absolutely in love with how this keyboard types, it makes a nice little clicky sound, and feels good… when I hit the proper keys *mutters at the key placement* So I am happy with how it’s running, impressed that the mere 32 mb ram, it’s pretty much using all the ram when x is running, plus a little bit of swap, I’m pleased! *hugs the laptop* (I’m using it to type this) It’s definately working out good for what I need… unfortunately I haven’t yet installed anything so I can’t really say what I think of gentoo’s emerge yet. I will probably install opera on here in the near future, I don’t have any browsers installed at the moment. I don’t think I’m going to go too much into installing text based things… I pretty much figure that most of the text things I don’t have already I will only need if I’m on the network (and online) and if i’m on the network than I can ssh into r2d2 or minute and use the text based things there %) Like links… if I want to go to a webage I just ssh to r2d2 and open up links there. It takes a lot of load off of what I need to actually run on here, it’s nice. I love linux.

The other day in irc someone asked me how many computers Myk and I have and what they ran. I actually had trouble answering him! I said 8, but then readjusted that total to 9, and got all messed up when listing what OS’s they all ran, hehe. So I think I will make a section on my page about the systems we have (Myk already has a section like this on bevilacqua.us but it only has our baic systems). For now I’ll just list them here, because I can:

R2D2 – Debian Stable/Windows 2000 – 2.0 ghz P4 – Lyz’s Primary Workstation
R2Q5 – Debian Stable – 450 mhz P3 – We plan to run this as the irc server, web server, and mailserver when the cobalt’s contract comes up for renewal (we dont want to renew it)
R2A6 – Gentoo – 333 mhz AMD K6-2 (Compaq) – Lyz’s laptop
Hour – Gentoo/Windows XP – 2.0 ghz P4 (Dell) – Myk’s Primary Workstation
Minute – Debian Stable – 733 mhz P3 (Dell) – Currently runs as gateway, firewall, webserver, mailserver
Clockbot – Debian Stable – 333 mhz AMD K6-2 (Compaq) – Print server running CUPS (yeah, it’s a bit overkill for a print server, but this computer has had a rough life, hehe)
Reducto – Gentoo – 700(?) mhz (IBM) – Myk’s laptop from work
The Cobalt – Cobalt Linux – 300 mhz AMD K6-2 (Sun) – runs irc.clockbot.net (otherwise known as clockbot.xelium.net), also runs our primary nameserver, it’s colo-ed and I’ve never actually physically seen this box
The Mac – No OS currently installed – 132(?) mhz – a friend gave this to us, havent had time to check it out yet

Yep, those are all our babies %) Not a bad variety!

Enough with computers already ;) I got a surprising call last night. My Uncle Dan, who I hadn’t talked to in over a year and a half called me! My Uncle Dan is the relative I stayed with (with his ex-wife and two kids.. but they were still married then) when I first moved to Brockport, NY (near Rochester) back in the beginning of ’00. He’s always been great to me, never talking down to me like my own father tends to still do, always treating me like my own person, and never afraid to let me know when I was out of line. It’s kinda funny how he ended up coming in and taking that role, since my father obviously wasn’t going to. Anyway, the last time I talked to him was when he had run off to Las Vegas to meet a woman he had met through a chat room, he thought I’d be sympathetic to his cause, since I had met people online.. but he left his wife and two children to be with this woman, and there are problems with that. Still, he’s family, and he’s done a lot for me so I cant very well turn my back on him. He divorced his wife (the one that he was married to when I lived with them) and now pays child support for his two children who he
isn’t allowed to see. And he married this new women, who has a few kids of her own, they all live in upstate NY. He called last night to let me know that he is often in the Philadelphia area! He spoke to my mother before he called me to get my phone number and find out where I was living. He drives an 18-wheeler, and I guess he has a route that takes him across NY, PA, and NJ. He often drives right past my turnpike exit! And since I live less than 10 minutes from the exit, it would be easy for him to stop by sometime. He said he’d give me a call next week when he is going to be in the area. Cool! It’ll be nice getting to see him again, it’s been over 2 years since I have actually seen him, and no one on my mother’s side of the family (my mother included!) has come to visit me here. He can go home and tell everyone what a beautiful apartment I live in ;) Hehe. Maybe we can take him out for dinner or something *shrugs* we’ll see.

Tonight we are going to go to a little pool party/get together with some of Myk’s former Co-Workers. I’ve met very few of them, so it should be quite an experience. We’re just going to hang out there for a little bit, skip the “pool” part of it because Myk still doesnt have any swimming shorts, d’oh! I think it’ll be a nice evening though. This weekend we’ll probably just spend chilling inthe AC, which is perfectly fine with me!

Went grocery shopping last night. The cashier was a guy I always see there, about 50 and takes his job WAY too seriously. He is always trying to help the customers as much as he can, always wanting to converse with them. Now I understand that he was just trying to be nice, and I like that, but it was a hot miserable day out, and I was in a lousy mood. Sometimes I don’t want to interact! But this guy was pretty insistant on wanting to talk with every customer, and I put up with it. I can’t imagine what happens when someone really doesnt want to talk to this guy, ugh. Someday the human element will be removed from shopping, and I’ll be very happy.

I actually got quite a bit of work done on the enlightenment how-to thing, I’m pleased with it so far. Of course I am not going to meet my goal of having it finished today, I keep thinking of extra little things I need to add to it, hehe. Still, it’s a great start! And it felt good getting some real work done for once. I’ll probably do a little more work on it this afternoon. And I also need to get caught up on email, oy! I am so bad about replying to people, probably because I seem to insist on writing 5 page emails each time, and I never can find the time to do such a thing ;)

I got a little burned the other day when I went to the pool, oops. It isn’t a bad burn, but I decided not to go to the pool yesterday (the temp was around 97, heat index over 100!) just because I was afraid I’d burn more. Last night at the grocery store I picked up some suntan lotion %) So now I am going to go put that on and head over to the pool. *grabs the all important suntan lotion and wanders off*

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o/` Pocahontas Soundtrack o/`

-!- Current Global Users: 391 Max: 401

Woohoo! We finally hit 400 users on xelium!

Yesterday was hot. In light of this I decided it would be a good day to go down to the pool. I had a nice time, and didn’t get burnt %) I went back to the pool today, and it was even nicer because there were hardly any people there, and I was the only one in the pool. It’s nice having a nice clean pool that I can go to whenever I want. But it is lonely… I need to drag Myk out to the store one of these days so he can get a bathing suit %)

On the laptop… x runs! And I am quite impressed with how nicely fluxbox is working with only the 32 mb of ram %) I havent set up a user account or anything yet, I’ll probably do that this evening. And I discovered why there is a 160 mb cap on the amount of ram it can have. Apparently the 32 mb is non-removable… gah! And there is only one extra slot for ram, the highest of which will work with it is 128 mb. Well that’s ok, for what I’ll be using the laptop for I don’t even really need to go much higher than it is now. I had a friend offer to send me an extra stick of 64 mb laptop memory, and Myk mentioned that he might be able to get one for cheap, so I’ll see… I can get ram from *someone* I’m excited!

Been doing some work on the englightenment how-to that I’m putting together. Which I should go work on right now since I’m in the mood to do it. *wanders off*

o/` Meat Beat Manifesto – She’s Unreal o/`

Hehe… this is from The Matrix Bastardization

Yesterday I pretty much spent the day reading. Actually finished Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil. Tonight I’m going to start reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (the novel that Bladerunner was based on, I picked it up at the bookstore where we held the first chix meeting).

-$nick- anywho. i’m not stalking PrincessLeia2. Nope, nosireebob.
-$nick- just came to say hello to her

… Eh? Turns out that this guy is a decent person to chat with. He found me through a bash.org quote of mine, did a search online for my nick, and found princessleia.com where I said that I chatted in #13thHour on xelium. But why come into a chat room and say “hi, i am not a stalker” ? Especially in such a creepy way… gah. I won’t look down upon him for searching for me after seeing a bash.org quote… I guess I could say I am guilty of doing similar things when trying to find out how to contact someone who somehow sparked my interest. I guess I’ll give him a chance, he added a link to my page on his own and that’s cool.

Today.. ah today I think I am going to wander into fluxbox (a window manager, I usually use enlightenment) and get a nice setup going, maybe play with keybindings a bit and see what I can come up with. So if x does decide to run on the little compaq laptop, then I’ll have a nice setup that I can just scp over. One thing about this laptop that I didn’t really take into concideration previously… the keyboard. Keyboards are keyboards, and I expect a keyboard on a laptop to be a bit different than one for a desktop, sure, but this keyboard is crazy. I don’t know what the designers were thinking… I found a picture of it so I didn’t need to fight with my camera:

Compaq Presario 1245 keyboard
check out the placement of the Ins and |\ keys! Next to the space bar! And the placement of Del Home PgUp and PgDn is enough to drive anyone crazy %) It’s going to take a lot of getting used to…

Well I’m going to go work on a couple things now, catch up on emails, webpage tweaks and desktop interface exploration. *wanders off*

First, book reviews!

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card, 592 pages
This is the immediate sequel to Speaker for the Dead, it picks up with Valentine travelling to see Ender on Lusitania. Years have passed since “Speaker” and Ender has established himself as a respected member of the community. Lusitania is dealing with the coming of the fleet sent to destroy their world, as well as internal struggles between themselves and the peguininos, and the newly discovered colony of “Buggers.” In another part of the universe, a father and daughter on the chinese planet colony called “Path” are charged with helping decide the fate of Lusitania. I enjoyed this book. Like always, Card made all the characters enjoyable enough so that when the story shifts to another portion you are not disappointed.

Swan Song, by Robert McCammon, 956 pages
Swan Song takes place just before and after a nuclear attack. The survivors struggle to make it through the years of nuclear winter that befall them. Some people cling to objects of hope, others with family, some with cope by inflicting violence. Some parts of this book get rather “surreal.” There are issues with objects being “magic” and there is a “demon” that preys upon people who have hope, and a young girl who can make plants grow from the dead and damaged earth. All these characters eventually come together after years of roaming the United States, and it all comes to a head where the fate of the world hangs in the balance. It was a sad book, a bit descriptive in some parts, but not overly disgusting or sexual, and so I can deal with this sort of book from time to time. I guess taking a look back at the book as a whole, I did enjoy reading it, gave me a lot to think about and be greatful for.

Moving on… I am feeling much better today. I think I discovered what spurned my depressed mood yesterday too. A woman came into #13thHour the other day whom I hadn’t seen in years. I missed seeing her come in, I was in the living room reading (Rubicant tipped me off to her presence in a private message I read later), but Myk got to talk with her briefly and when he mentioned getting my attention she said “no.. that’s ok” … a polite refusal to talk to me. I think we need some background here.

Once upon a time I dated a guy online with the nick Exeplis. He was my first “boyfriend” and I met him on the scifi server. He was a nice guy, had a steady job, and despite being 10 year older than me, he gave me attention that I hadn’t ever had before. As time when on I realized that we had little in common except that we were both lonely and shy. I met him in real life, and although I wanted things to work out, I just couldnt see past his age (he was 27, had a house and was ready to settle down, I was 17) and the fact that he had little to no interested in computers besides getting on to chat. After his second plane trip to visit me I broke up with him. Now since this woman was a close friend of his, she saw this breakup as a horrible horrible thing for me to do. Apparently Exeplis didn’t see it coming, and she took his side in absolutely despising me, but what could I do? Then I started dating someone else within a couple weeks. It was a rebound thing, I was depressed and he was there *shrugs* it happens! And she took this to mean that Exeplis never meant anything to me… it broke off some of the more transient members of #13thHour because I was such a horrible person for doing this to him. Gah, I was 17, what did they expect? The years went by, and Exeplis got married and settled down with a nice girl, they had a son, and we started talking again. I guess Exeplis and I do have a friendship now, I even helped him get back into touch with this woman!

So where does that leave me? I assumed she’d just steer clear of me and #13thHour. But no, she came into there, chatted pleasantly with Myk, had fun while I wasn’t around, and left. I guess this depressed me. I’ve tried to make ammends with her over the years, even doing small
favors to see if she would forget the past and move on. It hasn’t worked. Even when Exeplis is now my friend, she will not budge from her hatred (I’m sorry, strong dislike, hatred would be so un-christian) of me. I guess I shouldn’t worry about it, I mean it was really none of her business in the first place. I think it just annoys and upsets me that she still dislikes me… and that she has the nerve to come into my (ok, Time is the founder, but I would definately be labelled co-founder) channel dispite that.

Next! The concert yesterday was so cool! The drive out there wasn’t bad either, and we didn’t get lost! It only took about 2 hours to get there. Harrisburg is a very nice little city. And The Whitaker Center was a very nice place. The concert lasted from 2 pm til about 8 pm, with a 20 minute break… it was quiet a lot to sit through %) We had front row seats, which meant that they set up 3 rows of extra chairs, and we got to sit in the ones closest to the stage, I could touch the stage, in fact… I had trouble *not* touching it because we were so close to it! We could see the artists so close up, it was amazing! Jeff Pearce was cool, he really knew how to amuse and work the audience between the songs, and I did enjoy his set. Robert Rich was absolutely amazing! I was very close to pushing away the budget for the day and talking Myk into buying another one of his cds (we have several), he played through his whole hour long set without stopping, which caused a bit of discomfort… the seats weren’t exactly the most comfortable in the world, and at least with appluase breaks you got a suitable time to rearanged yourself into a more comfortable position without feeling guity that you are annoying the people around you %) After that set we got to have a 20 minute break to walk around. Then we came back to listen to Steve Roach. Myk is a huge Steve Roach fan, but last year he was disappointed when we went to a concert of his in Philly. He’s started using a guitar in his ambient work, and Myk doesnt like it… neither do I. And to be honest, most of Roach’s music bores me anyway… he played for nearly 1 1/2 hours with no breaks. By the end I was snuggled up with Myk half falling asleep because I was bored and uncomfortable. The last artist was Jonn Serrie. I didn’t really know much about him, since my ambient/space music knowledge is vastly limited, but he’s fairly famous… has done music for a number of planetariums and has done work with the likes of Lucasfilm Ltd. and NASA… cool stuff! I was quite captivated with his music, and he stopped between each song, which was nice. So I guess Robert Rich was my favorite of the night, but I was itching to pick up a John Serrie cd as well when the concert was over. Luckily I didn’t %) We left Harrisburg right after the concert, figured we could just get something here in North Wales for dinner… we got home around 10, much to our dismay we found out that nearly everything was closed since it was a sunday night, d’oh! We ended up eating in.

Today Myk took off of work (he planned to take it off because he knew he’d be tired after the trip to Harrisburg yesterday). It’s nice having him home on a weekday %) He’s cleaning and waxing the Rav4 right now… News with the laptop? Well the gentoo install didn’t go very smoothly. Myk ended up taking it last night and beating it into submission ;) Unfortunately I wasn’t around to see it, so my hand in the install is… well… I basically didn’t have a hand in it. My knowledge of the gentoo install is still practically null. I’m glad that Myk got the base install done for me (compiling x right now, not sure how it will work), yet disappointed that I couldn’t learn much from it. It’s just so hard learning to install gentoo on a laptop that is so old, the base compile takes so long that a screw up costs you days, and it would have been difficult for me to sit through all Myk’s work on it, just because he was working on several other things at the same time *shrugs*

Um… I guess
that’s it for now. I just stared Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil … I remember that I have seen the movie once, but I remember nothing of the movie. It’s good, and it’s been a long time since I’ve read a non-fiction book that read like a fiction. *wanders off to read*

We went to hang out with our friend Ed and his girlfriend Kelly last night at Kelly’s place. Didn’t stay long because we had to get up this morning, but we got to see all of Kelly’s kittys and her dog, it was fun %) Also got to see Ed’s mac, which was pretty cool, I have to say that the mac os is quite nice these days, the real transparency on any window was amazing.

I watched an episode of .hack//sign last night. I can’t decide if I like it or not.

Depressed, not sure why… I’m sure it’s just a silly girly mood and it’ll pass.

We’re going to the concert today, should be fun, I have no reason to be depressed…

Going to take a shower now and get going. *wanders off*

o/` Miranda Sex Garden – Falling o/`

My net connection went down for about an hour this morning (4-5 am) again, grrr… this is really starting to get me angry. Hopefully next time I can catch the outage and call comcast so they can troubleshoot… of send someone to physically check on the line and see what’s up.

It’s funny how dreams can somehow lead to a discovery about yourself. I had been having nightmares for a few months, and I took the advice of a woman I know from a mailing list who suggested that I start writing my nightmares down because they could be trying to tell me something. First I laughed at this, everyone knows that nightmares are completely random ;) But after a few nights I started noticing a few details that my nightmares had in common. So yesterday afternoon I went to lie down and take a nap, I had a nightmare that seemed to clarify what the rest were pointing at. Wow, when I got up from my nap I was able to seriously consider this. I went to bed last night and didn’t have any nightmares %) It was an interesting adventure in self-discovery, I never even realized I felt this way until I was confronted with it in a “dream world”

Today… dunno what we’re doing. A friend invited us over to “hang out and watch movies” this evening, but I dunno… I think we want to try to get to bed early so we can be on the road to Harrisburg at a decent time tomorrow morning. The concert is at 2 pm, and we want to get there fairly early, so we’re thinking of leaving around 10 am (it takes about 2 hours to get there)… that way we’ll have time if we get lost *grins* and we’ll be able to get settled into our *front row* seats. I’ve already mentioned it, but for the curious the concert is described here: Summer Solstice Space Spectacular.

It’s sorta warm and muggy out, I think I liked the rain better…

Well I’m going to go drag Myk out of bed and make some pancakes *looks at the time* Er, yeah, it’s still a good time for breakfast! *wanders off*