Well, tomorrow marks the end of my (roughly) two week vacation. It was nice. I'll give you a quick run down:
I Left work early a couple Tuesdays ago and checked into a motel in Stratford with my parents. Next day we shopped
around downtown Stratford (nice shops, but I already knew that) and
saw All's Well ThatEnds Well.
That was pretty good. The first act dragged a bit, but that's
okay. William Hutt was in it, and tht was cool.
Thursday we packed up and went to
see ThreepenyOpera (
also cool. Kurt Weill rocks... er, rocked... Sheila McCarthy was in it,
although this meant more to my mom than it did to me). Then we went to Oakville, visited my sister, bought her a bed and
tried and failed to go to a movie. Then my parents and I went back to Belleville. I picked up my Doctor Who Magazines,
ran into Robyn and baby Thomas at the Mall, watched lots of Doctor Who and Thunderbirds
on BBC Kids, set up a money market fund where I can dump excess savings for a potential
down-payment on a house, visited my grandmother, saw Goldmember with my parents (they wanted to see it), caught up with
Matt, had a donair (can't get the damn things around here), bought a bike, barbequed ribs almost the way I think they
should be done (the gas grill runs a bit too hot), did laundry, caught the train and came back to Waterloo.
Phew.
I'm especially glad about the bike. I'll tell you more about it when it arrives (and my sister leaves) in a couple
weeks.
I picked up SuSE Linux 8.0 from Future Shop today. I've been thinking about getting it for ages,
and debated whether I wanted to buy burned ISOs or look for the commercial package somewhere. I was leaning towards
commercial package because (a) I can afford it, so there's that whole "buy what you like" obligation thing kicking in,
and (b) I like owning boxes. No idea why. Boxes are cool.
When SuSE appeared on the shelf at Future Shop, I took it as a sign from the Fates. I was thinking I might have to order
it from the UW Computer Store, or go to Toronto or something. I got the Personal Edition because, while the machine it's
going to run on is going to do server stuff (OpenSSH, samba, maybe MySQL, etc.), it is mostly for play purposes, and
will hide itself behind my firewall. Besides, it's not like I can't download that stuff and save myself the $60.
I'm going to have to break it to my sister that the computer she's been using for email is going to be running Linux
soon. This won't stop her from doing whatever it is she does, but I'm sure I'll hear about it anyway. Oh well.
Presently, I am amused that the SuSE people pepper their user manuals with bits of German. Like
using "Achtung" for inset warning boxes and things. These guys are cute. That's why I like them.
It's rather warm outside. I don't want to leave work. That's not to say I'm a hard-working, obsessive, perfectionist
workaholic or anything. I just like the air conditioning. And the free drinks. And high-speed Internet.
No!!! the Jar is going away. Why do the good ones always die young? I hope the
beatniks make it into their future projects. I like the beatniks.
I went back to Belleville for the weekend. That was... less fun that it could have been. My mother has added a new
wrinkle to the thing with my sister (just as I was coming to terms, really). *sigh*. This just isn't fun.
The drive home was more fun. Traffic was bad in some spots, and those were the spots I got off the highway. I managed to
catch air going over a not-so-level level crossing. (Woo!) I think I lost some of my change for parking. I'll have to
dig under the seats.
Canada Day was also fun, depite the ungodly heat. Maybe I should have a chat with the landlord about the no
airconditioner rule. Then again, if I did that, he'd probably have a chat about the utilities included rule. Can't win,
really.