After taking nearly 1.5 weeks to do it, I finally got Linux on the computer (and I've had plenty of nonworking time. It was just the swathe of friends that slowed me down)! But, it wasn't easy when I was getting it on. The distro that I decided on uses 4 discs. I burned all 4 of them, but when I got to disc 3 I found, to my sheer dismay, that it had not been burnt!
I tried to get the copy of my father's computer, but his computer kept crashing (What is with me and my luck with Windows machines lately???) So, I emailed Eric for the copy. Eric to the rescue! He left a copy on his porch, which I scooped up and installed, after leaving the computer on the "Insert Disc 3 to Continue" for 2 days...
I have missed using the middle mouse button to open things, and I had forgotten how rich the text font is! Now all I got to do is remember all the filing stuff, and I'll be set... (Hmm... let's enable the 'dvorak' keyboard setting...)
I'm a little pissed off that this distro came with the mp3 codec taken off due to patent issues, but I'll find a way around it (even if I have to convert everything to ogg vorbis!)
To console me while I go looking for what I need to get music back up, I will play with Mr. Potato Guy! Or maybe Tux Racer.
Anyway, I have 9 minutes till I have to go to work. Where did the time go? Last night I looked at the clock and BAM! it was 3:30 in the morning. I did do plenty of stuff, but I didn't think that it would fly like that.
I have been restructuring my life, based around my influences. At work, I have so much free time that I read. I feel that spending my time reading is way more efficient than surfing the web when I get that free time at work, and so I read.
I haven't sat down and read books in a long time. Doing this has sparked my interest in books again, and I find myself reading at home! Now, don't get any ideas and think that I didn't read much before, because the large majority of all my websurfing was reading (I still get hooked on reading every now and again). It's just that I never read from books (books used to give me this painful kink in my neck, and the brightness of the text was never as good as the brightness of a CRT)
But now I'm back to reading.
While work has been influencing my reading hobby in the positive, Paul and Trevor have inspired me enough to get out and run like I should. Every midnight I run all the way to the world's tallest totem pole and back. Every night has been gorgeous. One night the fog came in and, with all the artificial lighting, an eerie luminosity besettled McKinleyville. It was gorgeous.
Whenever I get out there and run, I hit a couple of very dark areas, and the sky is just illuminated with the stars. I keep wishing that I had bought a telescope a long time ago. I should go find Paul and get him to meet up for star gazing, since he has a good one, though I keep forgetting. In the meantime, with the pretty stars and my run, I'm able to think about many things...
So far, the moon has been out during my runs and boy is it huge! Because of the direction of my run, I keep thinking that I'm running "to get to the moon". Though that's impossible, it's made me think that that may be a good plot for an anime...
Whereby a kid who is taunted by his father all the time is, one day, tricked by his father into thinking that all his wishes will be granted if he can make it to the moon. The father is teasing, thinking he'll give up and come back, but the kid just keeps running. On his way, he befriends a lot of people, takes on a few others, and finds out the true secret of the moon (it turns out there's a bridge to the moon, if he makes it...)
The kid doesn't stop running, though he gets a sideache in the beginning of the series.
Also, I run on an empty stomach, and some nights I'm hungry. I keep thinking about what I'll make at home, and then think of what it'd be like to be on Iron Chef.
I think i'd make the judges go hungry for 1.5 days and then go on a long and physical run. I'd tell them that that's the spice I need... Hunger...
I think I'd win if I did that. Even if I fed them nothing but stewed tree bark and dirt, the spicing would mask everything!
Yeah it's sickening.
Also, on second thought, I think that the time is flying by because I don't have the sun to help me keep track of what's going on. It's nice but annoying at the same time.
Example: at work, I thought I had 2 hours of work left, but there was actually 10 minutes left! Shock! Shock!
Yeah.
One more thing: In September I should be moving into Richard's house. My dad is feeling like he can't stay here any longer (the pay is crappy for a nurse here, though It's a good wage! He just wants Bay area wage) and so I have to pay for my own rent. Richard is cheapest, and I'll get utilities and meals paid for. Me and Richard have really come to an understanding on what's ok and what's not, so I think I'll be just fine there.
Plus, being at his house will reinforce my japanese language learning.
I feel that teaching is, at least for now, the most effective way of learning. So much learning goes on when you teach somebody. The student catches things you never thought to consider. So, secretly, I have been wanting to be a teacher for a long time now.
My dad wants me to continue and get a degree in Radiology. "This will be the first of many degrees that you'll have", he says.
But I think I'd like Japanese language to be the first of many instead.
All I need to do is get that associates (or maybe not even that! Though I plan on getting it) and I can whisk myself away to Japan.
Goot rot?-what I originally typed as the title
D.
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