Well, golly

OKAY! So, I am now currently typing a new blog from home. How is the feat of wizardry possible? Did I somehow acquire a laptop lightning speed? No. Did I miraculously ressurect my dead machine? Not quite. Some time ago in Colorado I visited an Internet room at a small hotel which had free copies of a linux install called Ubuntu. In the packaging were two CDs: one for a full install, and one which claimed to run straight from CD. I remember trying this second disk on two machines: one worked, one didn't. I was always impressed that it worked at all, and I've carried the disks around with me more for the sake of marvel than any real application. Well, now that demo is really shining. On an otherwise dead machine, I can temporarily load an OS, equipped with Firefox browser, that recognizes all my hardware sufficiently to allow my Internet to function. Presto! Updates from home! I still need to work on getting a permanent solution for writing and file-saving, but at least I essentially have a "terminal" now, if not a full-blown PC. Aint that something.

I'm back...sorta

Heyo, so soorry so long no posts. I still don't have a working machine at home, which makes regular posting pretty difficult, and picture posting almost impossible, but anyway, I'll try to get back on the horse here for awhile. In the next couple weeks, I'll have a new laptop if I can find an English-speaking one.

Let's see, it was Christmas last weekend. That was pretty nice. Things were pretty Christmas-y here. My Vice Director had a nice Christmas party at his place with real turkey, and fixings, and such. On Christmas Eve, our favorite bartender downtown let us bring eggnog ingredients over, so she could try to make us eggnog. Better than that was Christmas Eve dinner which JJ and I spent at a legitimate upper-scale Italian restaurant (Cin-Cin). The food was prepared correctly, the staff spoke excellent English, and, for awhile, it was like being in any fine western restaurant anywhere in the world. Definitely a jewel.

This weekend is up in the air. For the past several days except for today, I've been laid up with flu (not avian, just regular ol' pain in the neck flu), and, after I leave here (pc bang), I'm likely going to continue to rest through to Sunday. Anyway, I would love to type more, but in my current state the unfiltered cigarrette-laden filth they call air in here is killing me. Will try to type more soon.