I’m enjoying Doctor Reverend Martin Luther King Jr day off, and Marc sends me an IM that I need to blog.

Okay. I’ve blogged.

Last week was better at work. Things are still really busy, but not insane busy, and my friends have noticed I’m not so grumpy anymore. That’s a good thing.

7 hours on Monday were wasted because a construction worker flipped the breaker for my office. The power outage decided to break my network card in my Sun desktop, but not enough so it didn’t entirely fail. In fact, it worked without errors, but the applications over it didn’t. In our department, we do almost everything over NFS, and that was what was failing for me. Ugh. The catch is we changed many networking things last week involving time servers, spanning trees, and changing routers… I thought the problems I was seeing were infrastrucute related, and not my desktop. It took me all afternoon and into the evening to finally trace it back to a bad network card.

So bye-bye Sun on the desktop (my Ultra10 was getting long in the teeth anyway,) and hello Linux. I got my boss’s old P3/800, which had two video cards. So I figured out how to do ssh-agent with gnome, then started learning how to make the dual-heads work in X. It works, but the second video card is crap. When I make it into work today, I’m going to swap the PCI card out for a nicer one. In the meantime, if I leave the dualheaded X configuration open, X will crash within a few hours.

So this Linux thing isn’t very stable, but I’m making a go at it.

Went to Peoria Saturday night to Par-a-Dice casino. Tony and I played craps to start, then sat at some blackjack, and then back to craps. It was a great time – but I shouldn’t have gone back to the craps table a second time. I knew I left that money on 4, and I figured I could get it back. Instead, I blew all my winnings, and my original bank, and ended the night $80 back. I was up by $100 or so before the craps table. Sucks. But it was still great fun.

We tried to spontaneously get to Vegas for a day or two, leaving last night, but apparently when you want to be spontaneous, you need to plan first. We couldn’t find a good flight for under $100 with the timing we needed. (Okay, so Beth found one for $180 which would have worked okay, but then reality kicked in.) The fire drill finding flights was fun, though. And there will be Vegas sometime….