Of Pens and Swords

Today, I finish up my blueprint/layout that I started last week, finished the paperwork on a purchase request, spot checked a few machines to make sure their cron’s worked this weekend, and now I’m sitting here. I’ve had two arbitrary questions asked this morning, and that’s all. Sort of nice, sort of boring though.

I had a decent fathers day yesterday. My daughter called me, and we talked for quite a while :) I get her next weekend for a month and a half, and that is something I’ve been looking forward to for a long while now. I’m glad to see the date actually getting here, and not having to tell her that it’s only 8 more weeks, only 6 more weeks….now, it’s only a few days. Grace gave me a card too :) she was definitely excited about that…she was about as giddy as I’ve seen her. She even wrote her name in it, though only one letter is legible…but at 3, having a single letter being legible is awesome. This is a very good reason to have a stay-at-home mom that actually works on teaching the kids…the drawback? Kids who are entirely too smart for their age and their britches. It’s hard to remember that she’s only 3 most days.

On other news, I’ve got Suse 10.1 up and running on my laptop. I’m not using it currently, because I have a little bug in connecting to unsecure wireless networks, like the one here at work…At home, however, I have absolutely no problems. Once I get this last little bug worked out, I’ll most likely dump Window’s off this laptop permanently.
I’ve tried out Fedora 4 and 5 on this laptop, and though they worked just fine, there seemed to be something missing. Don’t get me wrong, Redhat makes a great distro of Linux, but…I’ve always preferred Suse. It seems to be a much cleaner install, and I’d say for any novice that wants to get into trying Linux, it’s probably one of the easiest to install and get using right off the bat. Since then, I’ve put in onto another ‘borrowed’ laptop that may or may not ever be asked for back, and it again seems to work flawlessly, though I have to find drivers for the wireless card. No biggy. One last thing, I’m going to put it on the “Little laptop that could”, or the one that should have died years ago and still won’t give up…Once I know that I can run the kids disks on it (which will be tested on my machine) then it’s a go. I’ll end up writing a synopsis for my other neglected blog. Basically, if you’re a Windows user, can’t afford to buy an OEM version, or you’re running an outdated version and again can’t afford to buy a licensed copy of a new version, this may be the perfect route. It’s easy, it’s very user friendly, and it’s free.

Well, I’m tired, and might as well dedicate some of this downtime to studying…