Catching up... some more.

Facebook is awesome, if only a reminder that I need to blog more... I keep getting little reminders of my past with people that sign on. We're really social creatures...

Anyway, it's 4:00 AM, and Holly is going to go to the gym early, since she's got a full day, and needs to be up north by 8:00 AM. I'd really love to ditch, but I'm going to just wait for the 5:30 arrival of the baby sitter and then go catch up.

I'm using my PowerBook, and I really have to comment on the keyboard. It is very nice to type on, and the backlit keys are awesome. I recently moved the "computer table" back in to the "loft" area, from being in the spare bedroom. The kids were always going in there and wrecking stuff, so I figured I might as well leave it out in the open. I've had my traditional folding table back for a while, but I finally got around to setting that up. I'll probably just use the spare bedroom for sensitive hardware tinkering and storage. We'll see.

I pulled the Airport Extreme back out. Mine is the teardrop model with wireless G and a modem. Seems to be working fine. I was going to ditch my Mac stuff (again) and send the Powerbook and Airport base station to my Mom in Ohio. She has a PowerMac G4 400 MHz box that seems to work fine. However, I'm really wanting to give Leopard and Time Vault a go, so maybe I'll just stick this out and then keep the hardware as a machine for my wife/kids... again, we'll just have to see.

Man, I'm really writing a lot. I need to just do it more often instead of writing huge blog posts. It'd probably involve writing on lunch breaks at work... speaking of which. I've officially transitioned into an Application Support role at my current client. It's a good move for me, since I hated doing document control so much. But, I've got a meeting with someone about doing some "old" work today. Bleh. Supposedly it is just perodic metrics, but I have a feeling I won't be happy about it... real... positive... attitude.

Speaking of positive attitude, the Linux Haters Blog is really sucking these days. It used to have really insightful posts about things that suck in Linux, but really could be improved if someone got overthemselves and stepped up to the plate and fixed it. Now it's just random stuff that sucks, and not nearly frequently enough. Eh, well, I got my Mac back out, and I'm happy, LOL.

My 2.5 year-old son is ready for potty training. He identifies when he has gone, and he's used the potty once a while back to pee. I think I blogged about that, so I can't hide how lazy we've been as parents. Our M-W sitter keeps asking when we're going to start. This weekend, we bought a seat cover that attaches to the hinges and tried it out... didn't fit. Grr... after a modification and some finagling I got it on upstairs, and I think we'll be able to repeat the affair for a second round with the downstairs toilet. Yesterday, he watched me go, and I think he may be tallk enough to stand on the floor and use the standard toilet. That'd be nice. He'll still need a stool to wash his hands though.

Speaking of hand washing... (boy these cheesy transitions are getting... well... cheesy) I nearly washed my hands of Linux, twice. My media center got a wipe of MythDora and an install of Vista Media Center again, but before I could finish, Julie got a hold of the power button and power cycled the installation into oblivion. Nice. I don't know... I might just buy a freaking TiVo upgrade. Our series 1 won't get an upgrade to support the 2009 digital transition, and the "offer" of transferring our lifetime subscription for the standard price of $299 and a refurbished unit for $99 bucks is pretty easy to reject, but I'm missing shows now. It might just be time to bite the bullet and put the media center project on hiatus.

So, this linux abandonment thing. I had Vista installed, I wiped for Linux... then reinstalled Vista, then reinstalled Fedora again. Fedora installs are quick, since I have a Live USB key. The updates take a long time though, and I really should invest in a local repository that rsyncs to get the installs from a mirror and serves them up over PXE. I did get ClarkConnect up and running though (and then went back to the Airport, so that tells you something right there) and got a PXE boot and remote installation going. It was cool, but pointless, I like burning media, and I like doing installs off of flash media.

Well, that's all for now, more to write, but Holly says I need to vacuum up the cereal her son spilled on her watch before the sitter gets here. Scott is up. Life is grand. Happy Monday.