Almost a week since my last post, so my streak didn't last. But, a little bit of interest has happened this last week. First of all, over the weekend my brother and I finally got the engine pulled out of his car that I was talking about last time. Only took us about ten minutes to pull the damn thing once we got everything unhooked, disconnected, and otherwise unbolted.
Next, one of my friends loaned me his old laptop to reinstall Windows XP on it. Turns out he didn't have the right install disc, so I convinced him to let me install Linux on it. So today after class, that's just what I did. I got Mandriva 2007 running on it with very few problems (fewer than when I installed it on my desktop). It was missing a few dependencies when I first booted it up, but is working fairly well and right now I'm updating and recompiling MPlayer on it after adding a few more options in the way of rpm's for particular audio and video formats. The thing is very fast now. It's only a Compaq with 1.8GHz Intel Celeron with 192MB of RAM after the onboard graphics take their share. With XP on it before, it was slowed to barely a crawl, but now it's like a new machine.
Finally, for the past few weeks I've had a Physics lab from 5:45-7:40pm on Thursdays. This has interfered with me getting together with my friends for what we like to call IU Genshiken. (And if you know what Genshiken is, that gives you some idea of what we do.) Basically, we sit around and talk, watch anime and listen to music. Well, today in Physics lecture I was made aware that a new lab section was being opened for 1:25-3:20pm on Thursdays! I'm free early on Thursdays anyway, so I decided to let them switch my lab period to the earlier one. So now I can head to Dan's at a regular time again!
Also, I've got a Calculus test on Thursday and a Physics test on Friday this week, so I don't know for sure if I'll be able to write again this week, but if not, I'll try to catch everyone again next week. :crosses fingers: See ya.
Currently listening to: "Lonely Fighter" by ORANGE RANGE
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