I haven’t written since 2007. Wish there was some great reason, but I can’t think of one a the moment. It’s cold here… that’s not an excuse, but maybe you’ll forgive me out of sheer pitty.
Well, anyway… 2008 sucks. Ok, not horribly, and not all of 2008. Only Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays… and not all of each day; sometime between 11:30 and 12:20. Physics – electricity and magnetism – it sucks. I suppose it just happens to occupy some space in 2008. I’ll get over it. I’m supposed to like this stuff! Its just something about computing electric fields by hand that really detracts from the interesting concepts.
So, physics aside, life is alright. The grocery store two blocks from me closed. A new one will be there sometime in the latter part of February. Thankfully, I had already stocked up on canned vegetables, dried beans, and rice. No exceptional flavors coming out of my kitchen for a while… ingredients unavailable.
I’m only taking three classes again this quarter. I tried a few art classes for a fourth, but the first was too boring and the second too disorderly. Something about hands-on-artsy-people that I find disconcerting. I prefer structure, or at the very least, my own disorder. I’m sure my three classes will keep me quite busy, besides.
After trying to get Ubuntu 7.10 (linux) on my new quad-core desktop… I was disappointed. It seems something about a j-micron controller, or non ACHI SATA hard drives is giving the kernel issues. Luckily… virtualization is alright! A few hiccups and I had Ubuntu running in parallel with Vista on the same machine… at the same time. Not exactly preferential, but acceptable until I have much more time to tinker.
Firefox 3 beta 2 looks promising. I’m sick of writing now.
I’ll eventually update the theme of this blog to look like everything else on this website of mine. Maybe then I’ll have more reoccurring motivation to blog about life.