Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to museinred!!!! Have a great one!!

Thankful Thanksgiving Thursday

Today is Thanksgiving. Second Thanksgiving, for those of you north of the border. And I'm grateful for

• Nearly 36 years of happy, stable marriage to the lovely Colleen.
• Colleen's continuing improvement in health. A special mention to her cane and scooter.
• My kids, who seem to be turning out ok in spite of all the mistakes we made raising them.
• My sister of choice, Naomi.
• My friends.
• The filk community.
• 19 years of stable employment with a company that gives a damn, doing something I enjoy.
• The Occupy Everywhere movement.

Done yesterday (20111123 We)

Probably not such a good day, on the whole. My new netbook, Cygnus, arrived, which pretty much blew the afternoon. It took four or five reboots to get through all the Windows upgrades. When I got home I installed Ubuntu 11.04, which went smooth as glass up until the end. It took an additional two installs to figure out that (1) you have to be careful about how you install grub and (2) the proprietary video driver is buggy.

The fan stays on all the time, which is annoying, but it's not really noticable from a normal working distance. At least to me, but I already know my hearing is deteriorating. And Windows 7 may be the best one so far, but it's still Windows, and I still hate click-to-type. On the plus side, it's a dream to type on compared to the Dell, and all the hardware Just Works in Ubuntu.

I had a serious adrenaline spike about 25 minutes after reading pocketnaomi's post about what happened Monday night. It's often difficult for me to figure out what causes a spike like that; this seemed pretty straightforward. Although, from the timing, it could have been excitement at Cygnus's arrival.

I made an appointment to see my doctor about the neuropathy.

Some good links in the notes, and one bad one -- don't click over to Naomi's post unless you can handle a detailed description of domestic violence. Sorry about that.

I really want to shake cflute and ask "What in hell are you and what have you done with my friend?"

( raw notes )