Feeling a bit better.

Bad:
- Still tired. Went to class yesterday and it was unexpectedly exhausting.
- Woke up yesterday with fluid in my ears. It made my hearing weird and distant all day.

Good:
- Swelling in throat has gone down almost entirely.
- Sinus congestion still present but less bad. To the point where once the decongestants kicked in I could actually breathe through my nose.
- Fluid in ears is draining pretty quickly; hearing almost entirely back to normal.

I dunno. I really don't want to be arsed to go to the doctor over what is probably a common cold, but it could be strep. Last time I had strep was in my early teens, from a girl at summer camp who passed her water bottle around for all to share and then told us she was sick; it turned out to be a drug-resistant monster strain that survived the first round of drugs, turned into a chronic low-level illness, and ended in antibiotics so strong that the pharmacist said "I'm so sorry" in hushed tones when my mom picked up the prescription.

So yeah, not interested in going through that again. But I get sick so infrequently that I don't know what symptoms merit going to the doctor. "Sick" for me means tired and sniffly, and is what generally happens when I'm fighting off a bug that has everyone else curled up in bed wanting to die.

Anyway, to make up for my excessively boring whining about my bout with that rare and horrid monster, the common cold, have some pictures of the cat curled up in my lap. Nobody can be unhappy with a really cute cat sleeping on their knees.

Feeling a bit better.

Bad:
- Still tired. Went to class yesterday and it was unexpectedly exhausting.
- Woke up yesterday with fluid in my ears. It made my hearing weird and distant all day.

Good:
- Swelling in throat has gone down almost entirely.
- Sinus congestion still present but less bad. To the point where once the decongestants kicked in I could actually breathe through my nose.
- Fluid in ears is draining pretty quickly; hearing almost entirely back to normal.

I dunno. I really don't want to be arsed to go to the doctor over what is probably a common cold, but it could be strep. Last time I had strep was in my early teens, from a girl at summer camp who passed her water bottle around for all to share and then told us she was sick; it turned out to be a drug-resistant monster strain that survived the first round of drugs, turned into a chronic low-level illness, and ended in antibiotics so strong that the pharmacist said "I'm so sorry" in hushed tones when my mom picked up the prescription.

So yeah, not interested in going through that again. But I get sick so infrequently that I don't know what symptoms merit going to the doctor. "Sick" for me means tired and sniffly, and is what generally happens when I'm fighting off a bug that has everyone else curled up in bed wanting to die.

Anyway, to make up for my excessively boring whining about my bout with that rare and horrid monster, the common cold, have some pictures of the cat curled up in my lap. Nobody can be unhappy with a really cute cat sleeping on their knees.

Let the screwing around with Ubuntu Netbook Remix commence!

...you can get 64Gb thumb drives on ebay for twenty-three bucks*?

I mean, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, Moore's law being what it is. Still cool and terrifying though. I saw 1Tb hard drives going for under €100 in Darty the other day, and I know France is a couple years behind the curve when it comes to IT, so I guess I really shouldn't be surprised.

Yeah, I bought one of the flash drives. I've been meaning to get something bigger than the 2Gb thumb drive I have, so that I can fuck around with various flavors of Linux until I find something that'll run on my netbook and then actually put it on the hard disk. Because I hate my netbook's OS. Crippled proprietary Novell version of SuSE Linux that sucks cocks in hell. Trouble is, its video card doesn't have native support in most Linux distros, so you have to tinker with patches and shit, and I'd rather not have an unusable computer while that's going on. (Yeah, I made that mistake one too many times.) Hence booting from flash drive. It also lets me screw around with various distros before deciding on one--am excited to try various flavors of Ubuntu, but it might be that OpenSuSE has the best hardware support, since it's closest to the current proprietary OS.

This is about 50% frustration with the current OS, 50% pure urge to tinker. Because tinkering with laptops just isn't easy. I don't think I'll have a desktop until I've settled down (physically), because lugging them all over creation is a pain in the ass, but when I have one it will be my baby. I will build it from scratch and give it an extravagant name and probably pet it when nobody is looking, and tinker with it until its PCI slots are sore. Until then, I will have to unleash the urge with sixteen different variants of Pendrive Linux inflicted upon my netbook.



* From China. With free shipping. There are cheaper ones but they're all sold by shady users with no selling history, which probably means your shit will never arrive.

Let the screwing around with Ubuntu Netbook Remix commence!

...you can get 64Gb thumb drives on ebay for twenty-three bucks*?

I mean, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, Moore's law being what it is. Still cool and terrifying though. I saw 1Tb hard drives going for under €100 in Darty the other day, and I know France is a couple years behind the curve when it comes to IT, so I guess I really shouldn't be surprised.

Yeah, I bought one of the flash drives. I've been meaning to get something bigger than the 2Gb thumb drive I have, so that I can fuck around with various flavors of Linux until I find something that'll run on my netbook and then actually put it on the hard disk. Because I hate my netbook's OS. Crippled proprietary Novell version of SuSE Linux that sucks cocks in hell. Trouble is, its video card doesn't have native support in most Linux distros, so you have to tinker with patches and shit, and I'd rather not have an unusable computer while that's going on. (Yeah, I made that mistake one too many times.) Hence booting from flash drive. It also lets me screw around with various distros before deciding on one--am excited to try various flavors of Ubuntu, but it might be that OpenSuSE has the best hardware support, since it's closest to the current proprietary OS.

This is about 50% frustration with the current OS, 50% pure urge to tinker. Because tinkering with laptops just isn't easy. I don't think I'll have a desktop until I've settled down (physically), because lugging them all over creation is a pain in the ass, but when I have one it will be my baby. I will build it from scratch and give it an extravagant name and probably pet it when nobody is looking, and tinker with it until its PCI slots are sore. Until then, I will have to unleash the urge with sixteen different variants of Pendrive Linux inflicted upon my netbook.



* From China. With free shipping. There are cheaper ones but they're all sold by shady users with no selling history, which probably means your shit will never arrive.