Archive for December, 2008

The week before Christmas was busy.

Monday, December 29th, 2008

And I haven’t been writing anything here for a while.
Last week we spent the majority of our evenings battling “demon baby” (or is it daemon?) after midnight. That’s what we call it when Elizabeth starts screaming her little head off, gets stiff as a board, and seems to do it for no reason at all. [...]

Look out world, I’m reading a book.

Friday, December 19th, 2008

For the first time in… years? I’m actually reading a book for recreation.
It’s not a nice thick fiction novel, but it’s something that is of interest to me.
I made it to about page 33 last night, between naps, the Colts game on TV, and tending to Elizabeth while Kylene was out at the grocery.

Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop

Friday, December 12th, 2008

It finally works out of the box on my Compaq 6715b laptop (work issued). Finally!
I can actually boot the desktop CD and install the OS, rather than using the alternate CD and fiddling with the X11 config until it magically starts working.
Yay!

Are people finally waking up?

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

And realizing they need to get their poop together?
Household debt falls, as net worth plummets.
If only we’ll be lucky enough for people to realize that they should have been listening to their grandparents (the depression survivors) advice on money all along, and actually change their habits.