Valefor

In college when using linux I did not care about stability at all. I cared about baking up data of course since I was working on school projects, but due to having school labs with linux, a work computer with linux and multiple computers of my own I could care less about distro switching and reformatting my computer on (sometimes) a daily basis.

Recently I’ve started to care more. If I reformat my work laptop with a new distro and stuff doesn’t work right it can REALLY slow me down. I can’t just fix it now and do my work later (Well, I probably could but it wouldn’t look good to my co-workers as I sit there configuring X.org).

I’ve used (and enjoyed) MANY distros and my favorites switch all the time. I’m currently using Ubuntu on work computers and my home desktop has FreeBSD, Ubuntu and a free partition that’s going to be the alpha of Foresight linux 2 when I get the chance. I was using Foresight at work for a while until we switched all of our servers to ubuntu and I wanted to learn the inner workings of the distro a bit more. I think my distro-playing in college is helping out now by allowing me to know what I can play with and what I can’t.

It’s definately made me appreciate Conary’s rollback feature in Foresight. I think that’s the feature that allows my Foresight installs to remain stable even when packages break slightly (Which is a fact of life in a rolling release binary distro! Big round of applause to the Foresight devs, they do an outstanding job.). Rolling release binary distros are definitely hard, yet very cool to get working and Conary is definitely the secret behind Foresight’s success!

I realized I wasn’t posting as often as I’d like because every post was shooting over to the Foresight planet. Now I’ve categorized better so that this doesn’t happen as often. Hopefully this will mean more posts!

I was late for work today.

I wasn’t on any trains that were involved in the accident (thank god) but my train was delayed at Kenmore where I eventually was left off. There were shuttle buses running but there were TONS of people waiting for them already, so I walked to work. Didn’t take very long luckily It looks like no one was seriously hurt at least, which is good.

I found a picture and had to make it into this icon

Now I need to go to bed.

Chris and I made steak the other night For the first time instead of being just fairly average, it was really good! Our first attempt, it was way overcooked. We cooked it until it looked kind of medium/medium-well but then by the time we were done, it was all brown inside and kind of tough to eat.

Second time, well, we found out our broiler doesn’t exactly work. We cooked it almost twice as long as the recipe said to and it was still rare. More rare than I like (I usually like medium-rare, and this was… very rare) but it wasn’t bad. We let it cool off a bit too long though and it was kind of cold. Which kind of reminds me, we need to talk to our landlord about the stove.

This time… we cut up strips of steak into little cubes and stuck them in a frying pan with crushed cloves of garlic and some butter, and at the end poured in some soy sauce too. OMG it was so good. We cooked them pretty perfectly (medium rare) and the garlic and butter just made it taste amazing It was SLIGHTLY too salty (too much soy sauce) but it was still super delicious. We’ll lay off a bit on the soy sauce next time.

Tonight we have chicken stir fry on the menu. We haven’t had stir fry in a while so I’m looking forward to it We also have some leftover steak from the other day, so maybe we’ll have chicken + steak stir fry. Sounds super yummy to me! I think we kind of forgot to get broccoli, but we have red peppers (which are so yummy) and rice and whatnot so Maybe I can get Chris to boil the rice when he gets home after he meets me for lunch, so we can stick it in the fridge for a few hours before we cook it. (Cold rice works waaay better in stir fry than hot rice fresh out of the pot)

When I say “we” cook, I usually mean that Chris does most of the actual cooking. I am really not a big fan of the open flame that our gas stove has - I’ve had electric all my life! But I help him do a lot of preparation - chopping up veggies, getting stuff for him that he needs while cooking (ie soy sauce) and whatnot.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone I went over to Chris’ aunt’s house (his parents, and my parents, sister, and uncle all came too). It was really good! It also wasn’t the total stomach disaster I was worried it might be. I was all right, in a sense.

Hung out with family, ate food around 2:00, didn’t feel so great, promptly fell asleep on their couch. Woke up about 3 hours later, ate dessert (cheesecake, yum) and then fell asleep… again XD until 6:45 or so. Then I spent some time with family again until a little after 7:00 where everyone decided they should be getting a move on.

I’m already feeling better, I think. Not great but this is the best I have felt in like, 2 weeks I even went up and down the stairs like 3 times bringing up groceries (we get them delivered and I stupidly didn’t ask him to help me carry them upstairs) and I didn’t feel like puking XD

Still dreading taking the pills later but I will do it if I continue to feel this good Well, I have to anyway unless I want a resistant strain of bacteria running around in my stomach, so… haha.

Chris brought Rock Band home!! We have been playing it for hours and it is so fun. Guitar Hero 3 really kind of butchered the characters (Judy Nails went from cool to kind of slutty, it was like she got breast implants between Guitar Hero 2 and 3). In Rock Band you can make your own characters and it is awesome XD Mine is named Ayashi and she is badass.

Also this video is awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qit3ALTelOo

Giving my arm a rest from Rock Band at the moment… it is so much fun though xD I also played more of Assassin’s Creed this morning. I love running around on the horse, rofl D:

So I went to see the doctor at 10:10 today I told her how I had been feeling and she decided to look and see what the nurse practitioner had done, and saw my blood tests. She started looking at one and then started talking to herself, but of course it was doctor-talk and I didn’t know what she was saying. Then she was like “… I think you ARE H. pylori positive.”

And I’m like… wtf D: You mean I had my blood tested like 2 months ago and I’m positive for that thing??

So anyway now I’m on the 2 week fun times of pills to try to get rid of this bacteria that I hopefully have. Problem: The pills are ENORMOUS. I asked if there was anything smaller and she said that pretty much, either it was take these pills or drink a HUGE amount of the pediatric liquid dose, so And it isn’t like I have to take 1, nope, I have to take 4 enormous pills in the morning and 4 at night.

She also majorly got on my ass for drinking soda, and I agree with everything she said, so I guess it is just another reason to stop. (I stopped once a long time ago and it got to the point where soda started to taste bad to me, I’m not really sure why I started again.)

I’m going to try try to choke down my morning pills now so I can get started right away T_T

I also was prescribed some anti-nausea medication so hopefully that will help me too!

Damn you life. I really hope that I am indeed H. pylori positive. Unfortunately I’m not sure if the antibiotics will kick in enough by Thursday for me to enjoy Thanksgiving. Here’s to hoping!

Edit: 2/4 pills down D: I am waiting on the next two for a minute because my throat feels weird.

Edit 2: All of them down. God that was really hard to do actually D: The first two went down easy, 3 was okay, 4 was almost coughing it up twice. But I did it! Now I only need to do it 27 more times Yay…

I was giving some thought to “powershifting” today. Basically the ‘art’ in WoW of shifting out of form when you are out of energy and shifting back into cat form after, so you can get the benefit of the energy bonus (if you have Furor). Well, there used to be a global cooldown so it wasn’t always good if you didn’t time it correctly. But with the lack of global cooldown now, you can shift directly back into cat which almost certainly would make it beneficial if you have no energy and can use a global cooldown.

I want to test this really bad so I think I might respec Alaphrei to feral tonight and try it XD

Some early episodes of Sesame Street deemed not appropriate for children. *dies*