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It took less than three days for me to crash Ubuntu beyond repair… I had to do a fresh re-install last night. Gonna hang out in Edgy Eft this time instead of upgrading the Feisty Fawn beta. I’ll also do more reading ahead of time before editing any core files that may implode my computer. Live and learn.

I really wish I had more time to devote to getting my system up and running, but I’m burning at both ends of the candle. Last night I was up until nearly one getting Edgy installed –I wanted to get Beryl loaded too but I gave up. Luckily I got all my monitor issues worked out so the install went much smoother this time. I’m also going to try to figure out if I have any DNS issues with Comcast, because the internet is slow, and I don’t think it’s just firefox.

I feel old, and my brain hurts when I think about linux, I wish I’d taken the plunge when my brain was still more agile.

This weekend went too fast, no small part thanks to Ubuntu. I kept putting off installing Ubuntu because I didn’t want to back up the data on my old PC. Well I had an extra HD hanging around, so I just threw that in there and set the other drives as slaves and installed Ubuntu on the new master hard drive.

Ubuntu is pretty sweet, although prone to crashing, but they’re not major crashes, nothing that doesn’t take a few minutes to fix. I ended up installing a version of openGL [beryl] which looks really pretty even though my computer is only 1.5 GHz with 512 megs of ram. I was running windows 2000 on it, I’d never upgraded to windows XP, so this was a huge jump in prettiness.

I also finished all of my reading for this week of Perspectives class last night and set up a new bible-reading challenge for myself. Read some Leonard Ravenhill and KP Yohannan last night which was awesome, and went for a long walk and listened to Paul Washer, also listened to Mr. Washer on the way in to work thismorning.

Something changed recently, I stopped having dreams. Sometimes there are some images, but no narrative, nothing with inspiration.

In fact, all my time seems devoid of ambition, inspiration, dreams, goals… I feel like my head has been chopped off.