Maybe it’s because we still have stuff in boxes, a ton of items looking for their own home and it carries over to me. Maybe once I get all my little nicknacks and cables put away in their own spaces I’ll start to feel that sense of being. Or maybe I never will, maybe this place will always be transient; always have a sense of elsewhere.

I’ve lived in alot of places in the past six years, alot of different and disconnected spaces. The only real connection they all shared was the one made by digital signals. I’ve always had my computers, my interwebs and maybe thats what causes the lack of that feeling, the lack of being “home.”

Or maybe it just takes alot of time. I don’t know. I just know I feel angsty, emo, wishing to blast some cheesy Simple Plan or Good Charlotte. Lord, do I need help

Until release 8.04.My, what a clusterfuck.

I tried Ubuntu, I really did. I installed you, I spent three days troubleshooting my problems. From the pulse audio bullshit, to the eating of my external drive (are you serious? An operating system should NEVER “delete” a hard drive, even if I was able to recover the partition table later on with the help of some friends) you were one troubled bastard. Apparently, I wasn’t alone either. It was by far the least polished and press ready release I’d yet seen from the guys at Canonical. Suffice to say I dropped that release like a cheap, two dollar bottle of whiskey.

And I must seriously be a glutton for punishment. I decided to install it again. On my laptop. The machine I’ve been using every day. For work.

This second time has been a surprise. The install went quickly, with no errors or issues. So far, it appears that the wireless card was correctly detected and setup. Wait, scratch that. Its detected but apparently I have no way to join a wireless network.

There’s no obvious method to detect or join. Perfect. The screen resolution is also massively off (seriously, you still cant work properly with an Nvidia 7150 Go chipset yet?) but hell…bluetooth works.

Yea, cause thats important right now.

Atleast it properly detected my wireless Logitech mouse. Most likely the forward and back buttons don’t function properly (to be tested) but thats always been the case.

Thankfully, sharing an internet connection through Vista is pretty easy and the laptop’s now setup with atleast a wired connection through the wireless. Not ideal, but it’ll work till I figure out the mess that is wireless on linux. Lord is this piggy backing slow though.

Expect updates soon if I run into more bugs or issues (and Im sure I will)

EDIT:EnvyNG to the rescue. In two clicks through Synaptic and then two clicks through Envy’s interface I have the correct Nvidia drivers installed and running. Ahhhh…1440×900 how we’ve missed you

Its a decent enough place. Smallish, but two bedrooms, bath, a large kitchen and a washer and dryer make it worth it. The fact that it has a/c (even if only downstairs and not the bedrooms) was even more of a plus.

The downside was that the previous tenant must have been an idiot. She was moved out by the 20th of march but never called to have her Comcast tv and internet service disconnected. This made it rather…difficult to get Comcast do a damn thing in regards to getting us setup and running.

Finally, as of today we have TV and internet. Its like a breath of fresh air. The past two plus weeks or so have been the longest I’ve gone without a net connection in ages. I huggles my internet. Its good to be back.

What makes the place so nice? Two bedrooms, two full baths. About 1,100 square feet in total that was recently renovated with new carpeting, painting, etc. It also has quite new appliances and central A/C and gas heating.

We’re both looking forward to moving in (hopefully the 19th if the landlord gets back to us on that) and getting out of our respective living situations since neither one is all that optimal right now. Either way, it should be an interesting time in a new household

Download details: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Five Language Standalone (KB936330)

Thankfully, the car shopping process had quasi been put into place already and the money was available for buying a new car. However, her parents were the ones who had to pick it out. Not myself, or even Laura who’d be owning the car for hopefully years to come. Nope, the parents who were 200 miles away.

Did I mention they have an unhealthy obsession with Subaru?

Suffice to say, Laura has a new-ish car (1997 Subaru Impreza Outback)¹ that doesn’t quite meet all the things she was looking for. For one, she wanted a 2000 or newer. Also, cruise control that worked and finally one of the clicker-unluck thingies (don’t ask, thats what it was initially called).

Yea, we struck out on all three.However, the car runs, its got a new head unit installed that can interface with her Zune or play mp3 cds built in and in a few weeks she’ll have the clicker unlock thingy that’s also a remote start.

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