I seem to have made a surprisingly rapid recovery from one of the nastiest bugs I've been hit with in some time. I think that since Saturday Night, I've slept for a total of something like 48 hours. Last night I started trying to eat solid food again, and today I've been slowly progressing to regular meals ( Read more... )

I went to bed last night feeling fine and woke up this morning feeling awful. I've spent the last 12 hours in bed sleeping due to extreme fatigue, punctuated with a mad dash to the bathroom every 10-20 minutes ( Read more... )

My first week of work was a short one, as its Good Friday today and so there's no official work. I actually spent the morning configuring stuff on the new distro install so I'll be able to be productive on Monday, and so that I can get dual boot working properly (its 97% there. I can dual boot, but its interaction with kernel updates is kludgy ( Read more... )

Its quiet here... too quiet ( Read more... )

I'm in the middle of another period where my sleep schedule is all screwed up, so I've been working on some of my software through the night. A few minutes ago it gradually registered that I'd been hearing a rhythmic bumping noise for some time ( Read more... )

Linda and I went out to Pierre and Susana's party last night. It was a combined Birthday party for Susana and Peter McCurdy. I had a really good time, but I found myself wishing I could split into multiple people, because there just wasn't enough time in the evening to talk to all the folks that I wanted to reconnect with. There were people there ( Read more... )

"The Sausages Are Dancing on My Aunties Hat."

Actually, I am just checking to see that exactly one (1) copy of this public post shows up on facebook.

Just wanting to say "Happy Frimblemass" to all you Zebumans out there!

For the last three or four weeks I've been feeling very positive and upbeat, with no real reason for it. For the last few days to a week, I've noticed it start to change into a slide into depression. Again, I don't see any real reason for it.

With my old computer it regularly took me 8+ hours to rip a DVD movie to my hard drive. Then I got me my nifty new speedy machine and that time dropped to an hour. I was just grumbling because its back up to 8+ hours, but that's because I'm now ripping multiple DVDs for an entire season in one go ( Read more... )