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Apt-get Sat May 29 01:16:14 CDT 2004
Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: Nightwish - End of All Hope (live)
Well I just rocked my own socks, I installed apt-get for Redhat/Fedora. Now I've played with apt-get before when I was playing with Debian. Basicly it's a quick and easy downloader and installer. I tried to get it to work under SuSE 8.0, but had MANY headaches. But, following the instructions at http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ it took about 5 min to setup. Quick, easy, and workable. I like.

Back on Shub Fri May 28 23:55:54 CDT 2004
Mood: Good Music of the Day: Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter on TV
Well, I made the final switch over to Shub-Internet tonight. So far so good. All the toys seem to be working, and I'll find what doesn't work as time goes on. I also have Yog-Software running as secondary, in case I find I miss things. But I think all is good, and in the next few weeks will start moving Yog to a dual boot Windows/Linux box. And then I get to game. :) But it's nice to be back using my favorite Demon Goddess of the Internet.

Shub-Internet Rebuild Wed May 26 14:07:00 CDT 2004
Mood: Good Music of the Day: None
Still working on getting Shub-Internet reinstalled. Hardware is working fine so far, with much tweaking and tinkering I've gotten Enlightenment and Gaim running. Now I'm installing my usual mess of programs. Multimedia, email, image viewing. Mozilla Firebird instead of Opera (maybe, probably will install both.) With a little luck I'll be able to switch to using Shub full time over the weekend. *knocks on wood* And once that is done and stable, then I'll look at making Yog a dual boot Wintendo/Linux box.

Today's Geekyness Sat May 22 22:54:04 CDT 2004
Mood: Hopeful Music of the Day: Conan the Barbarian on TV
Well, today has been a fairly geeky day. I woke up today, and after waking up and getting alert I started working on the great upgrade (mark 3).

Step 1. Move Shub's old root drive to Yog-Software. Reconfigure everything to run. This took some work with getting sound and DMA to work correctly, but I did. Now I have a working workstation. The big problem with previous upgrades was the frustration with being offline while trying to get things working correctly. So, now I'm running fine on Yog, and I can take my time with rebuilding Shub-Internet.

Step 2. Rebuild Shub. Added the Seagate 120 gig drive and setup Shub. Currently I'm installing Fedora Core 2 on Shub, we'll see how it goes. I may go back to SuSE or Gentoo, or gods knows what else...but I can take my time and do it right. Which is a good thing.

Busy Day Off Fri May 21 15:38:34 CDT 2004
Mood: Good Music of the Day: Nightwish - Tutankhamen
Well, today has been a pretty busy day. Woke up alot earlier than expected, about 8am or so. (aka about the time I wake up during the work day). Got showered, dressed, breakfasted and off to the bank to deposit my check. Came back, got a few things at the grocery store, came home and did laundry. 2 weeks of laundry. Wee. Then went to a local Italian place for lunch. Not bad, not great, but the fact it was cheap and a block away means they will probably keep getting my business. Plus the waitstaff were really friendly and attentive. Always a plus. From there I went and got some keys made. Don't want to repeat locking my keys in my car like last weekend. Filled up the car, decided my little gogo mobile needed a wash...the total was $31. Ye gods. *shakes head* I miss the days of a $1 a gallon. Came home, and in general have been a veggie.

Going out tonight to see Shrek 2. Should be good for a giggle. Maybe doing some geeking when I get home. We'll see how tired I be. In general though, I'm in a REALLY good mood. :) Lets hope it stays for a while.

Quick Note from the Daywalker Wed May 19 19:22:20 CDT 2004
Mood: Happy Music of the Day: None
I survived my first dayshift. Not as bad as I thought, very busy in spots, very slow in others. I think I'll survive fine. And I got some good news.

My 6 month review finally went though. Pretty much straight excellents across the board (one satisfactory for something about safety regulations, didn't know we had any). And this also comes with a small raise. *happy dance* I haven't gotten a raise of any kind since I worked at Verio. Life is pretty spiffy. Now to get some real sleep tonight. *crosses fingers* I rock :)

Weekend Foo Sun May 16 20:43:51 CDT 2004
Mood: Nervous Music of the Day: The Matrix on TV
Well, the end of another weekend is upon me. 12 hours earlier than usual. In approx. 12 hours I'll be at work for my first daywalker shift. Yes, I am still nervous about this. I'm used to nightshifts and their pattern. Not just the lack of calls, but being used to doing it all by myself without backup or help. So, we'll see how this goes.

But enough of my worrywarting. Friday night me and the Ufies went to see Troy. I was of two minds of the movie. I liked reading the Illiad when I was a teenager, even if it is rather dry. And I was worried I'd be correcting the whole movie. I was nicely suprised that I didn't. There were scenes that had me looking puzzled, but not so many that it made me hate the movie. I do want to know why there were llamas in Troy ;) But unless you a Homeric scholar, you can handle the plot gaffs. Of course, the biggest blunder in the movie...

No mention of Eris Discordia. No Golden Apple. Few references to deities in general. But no Eris ? Bah, the Great Snub Mark II.

Came home from watching Troy, watched TV and read for most of the night. Went to sleep around 4am Saturday morning. I was planning to get up around 10-11am to help break my sleep schedual. That failed. I eventually got up later in the afternoon. Went out, hit Half Price books and got breakfast. Then I went to a friend's, Tim's bday party. Had a good time, ran into alot of people I haven't seen in too many years. The party broke up about midnight, walk out to my car...can't find my keys. A quick search of pockets and house turns up nothing, but looking into my car shows my keys sitting on the seat. ARGH !!!!!!!!!! After several attempts to get into the car I called a locksmith. Not as expensive as I thought it would be, he slimjims my car and off I go. Get home, watch some TV and try to wind down. Again, get to sleep around 4am.

Alarm went off around 11am, woke me out of a nasty nightmare about being closed in. Puttered around my house, went to visit The Grim Squeaker. He got the Invader Zim DVD but had never seen any of it, so we watched several episodes. Funny as hell, as Zim tends to be. Must pick this up for myself when I get paid. From there I came home, I've not been feeling good. I think it's just allergies, or maybe a cold. But I'm feeling less than stellar. So I've been watching TV and reading and generally trying not to feel as bad as I do. Maybe I'll feel human tomorrow. I better, it's going to be a long day.

Beware the Daywalker Fri May 14 17:50:13 CDT 2004
Mood: Tired Music of the Day: %s
It's official, as of Monday I go to 9am-8pm M-Thursday.

I feel so weird about this...

Secret Message Wed May 12 01:56:26 CDT 2004
Mood: Secretive Music of the Day: Nightwish - Stargazers
I may not be a corpsestealer much longer...news at 11.

Geeking... Mon May 10 23:22:32 CDT 2004
Mood: ok Music of the Day: None
Well Sunday wasn't quite as fun as Friday or Saturday. Lunch with mom was good, I then ran her around to Walmart and Half Price Books, then home. From there I was a bad fox and went to Fry's and bought a new 120 gig Seagate drive. Came home, went to work on installing it. Ran though the SuSE 8.2 install, but had problems when I tried to install updated libraries for GTK and Glib. Finally I said the heck with it, and installed it as a slave of the original 40 gig. Thought I'd just use it as a /home. Well it nuked 60% into copying files, something is just screwed up with that old install I guess. So remove drive, restart. Figure out I have a problem with the latest Enlightenment beta I installed, go back a version...guess what, my enlightenment configurations are now corrupt. *curse* *lots*. Do the configurations swap, and resetup Enlightenment...find out the mapped buttons on my keyboard no longer work. Curse more. I'll have to fix that another day, when I have ALOT more free time. And when I do it, this time I'll make sure to write everything down in a text file, so doing it a 3rd time will be much easier. Oy.

After giving up on geeking, I went to one of the books I got, a study of the probably murder of Tutankhamen. Very intresting, finished it very quickly. I've always liked Egyptology, but I know little about it. So it was a fun read to learn a few new things.

After finishing my history lesson, I crashed out and slept most of today. Now to start another work week. Wee.....

Fun Weekend Sun May 9 02:41:19 CDT 2004
Mood: Good Music of the Day: The Evilest Men in History - Rasputin
Quick note before bed. Had a very good weekend so far. Friday I went to see Van Helsing with the Ufies. I'll review it later, but in short. It's fun, it's amusing, it has plot holes you can drive a train though...but I liked it anyway.

Saturday I slept way way in, woke up and went to a local festival up in North Dallas. Amythest was working with a friend of her's selling artwork. I came out to hang out and keep company. I got a pleasant suprise...Blue Oyster Cult was playing at the festival. Now, for those who don't know...I'm a huge BOC fan. So this was a very good thing. Now BOC kicked major ass. They played the trio of popular BOC songs (Burning for You, Godzilla, Don't Fear the Reaper) along with a number of tunes I didn't expect. They didn't play my favorite song (Astronomy), but they did play things like Black Blade and Last Days of May, which are very good and I've never heard live. After the concert I dropped Amythest off at her car, then proceded to get utterly lost getting home. Finally found my way back, stopped by Denny's for dinner. From there I came home and generally have been lazy. Tomorrow I'll be taking my mom out to lunch for Mother's Day, then housework and maybe some geeking. We'll see. But it's been a very very good weekend so far. :)

Weekend Update Mon May 3 15:15:58 CDT 2004
Mood: Not awake Music of the Day: Battlefield Detectives on TV
Well I had a pretty busy weekend. Spent Friday cleaning house, apartment is now 90% clean. The bar area is still cluttered, but I'll work on that later. After cleaning up, I went to a friend's house to hang out with some friends. We watched a DVD of a strange band from Austin then a strange sci-fi Hong Kong action flick. Definitely amusing as all hell. The movie's name was Returner. Corny name, but it was good. Came home, read and watched TV, then went to bed.

Got up early the next day, and went to the local Unitarian Universalists Pagans' Beltane ritual. This was a big all day affair with classes and discussion and socializing. Lots of socializing, I ran into a lot of people I knew from my past. It was a good thing. I also met some people I knew by reputation. It was good. The ritual was very nice, good energy and all that. After ritual and socialtime, I went by a friend's house for a short dip in a hottub, then home to watch British TV and read Lovecraftian horror. Then bed.

Sunday I woke up late, and headed out for our Beltane ritual. The plan was to have a number of guests, but well...it was just us plus Nymaz and Jade's hubby. And the kids. But it was fun, decorated the yard and generally had a good time socializing. After dinner, a few of us went to see The Ladykillers. It was a pretty good movie, but it wasn't great. When it was funny, it was hysterical, but when it wasn't funny it dragged. But not bad. It had a cameo with Bruce Campbell but, bad fox, I didn't notice. After the movie I came home and watched the last few episodes of Season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, then watched Kung Pow while geeking and chatting. Finally I went to bed. Woke up today, and to be honest... I've done little today. Just don't feel like doing all that much. With work tonight and all. I brought Tru-Namedra (my home name server) back online. This weekend I'm planning on reinstalling her with FreeBSD. I also need to rebuild ATAthoth this weekend, but that may take a while. I need to find a cdrom to do installs from, or pull one of the drives from Shub-Internet to install. We'll see when/if I get this done. Work tonight, lets hope this is a good week. *Crosses fingers*