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Posted June 2, 2006

I haven’t posted in more than a week…big surprise there. Here’s a rundown of things going on (mirrored on MySpace):

I installed Ubuntu on my laptop finally. It wasn’t the chore that installing Linux used to be, which is great. I installed Ubuntu 6.06 Flight 7, and loved it, then the Beta release came out, so I installed it, rebooted, and oops (!)…my entire Windows XP partition was gone, even though I went to great lengths to preserve it. Oh well, I reinstalled Windows, reinstalled Ubuntu, and now it’s fine, except that the last backup I made of my MyDocuments folder in XP was 2 weeks ago, so everything I downloaded, saved, or otherwise wanted since then is gone. It’s mostly worth it. ?

I went to Walla-Walla last weekend with a friend. I’ll tell ya, unless you have family there, have to travel there for work, or just love the smell, you have no need to go there. It’s a nice little down home cookin’ town, but definitely not for me. His family lives there, and like most families I’ve met besides my own, despite their eccentricities, they’re nice. The drive from Seattle to Bellevue went well, until a few bombs were dropped and a knife went into my stomach (figuratively speaking, of course, which is why I’m able to type right now), and made the rest of the drive, the entire time there, and the drive back extremely uncomfortable for me. I’m not sure about him, but I was ready to lose what little food was in my stomach the entire time.

I may have to drop out of school, as my tuition is going up (again). I have already taken money from every other area of my life to dedicate to school over the past year, and it’s getting to the point where I have to choose between giving up one or more of the following for my education: groceries, cell phone, bus pass, and cat food. Not good choices, and a private loan, while it may be possible, is just going to hurt me with my credit the way it is and how hard I’ve worked to repair it (which is still painfully ongoing).

Work is going well; no vehicle accidents, no having guns or knives pulled on me, and I’ve made some great buddies working here so far.

1 Comment so far

  1. Adam on June 3rd, 2006

    You drop out of school, I will hunt you down!!! That’s a promise. Give me a call in regard to your finances. Lets have a chat on what you can get by without. First that fancy cell/internet phone you carry. Lets go back to the basics. Oh, and this Ubuntu bull crap. Like I said, you drop out, I will find you!

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