belated elation
House on Red Corner · 2007-05-07
it’s just been so busy here, and i have not been able to write a single thing in the blog. yup! that is an official start to so many blog postings in the blogosphere that it is nearly an post of its own.
so, on with the catch up. really, what i have been doing is lots of code monkeying for my java programming course. the hardest part of the whole thing is my tendency to overengineer everything i do. so i tend to get myself lost and confused in the (imaginary) scope of what i am trying to do. it’s an academic class so i have a hard time letting the problems not be reflective of real world solutions and just about learning the tools of the language. unfortunately, that means that i get slammed for time as i have to wade through tons and tons of my own mental faults.
other news, ej has a cold again. when we went away she took an ear infection with her, and got better almost right away. she hardly had a runny nose at all in South Carolina and upon the immediate return to NYC she started with the nose and the coughing and the hacking- i am starting to believe that there is something in the air that she and i are reacting to. i get lots and lots of snot that i spit up all over the place, just from walking around.
over the weekend, i got my birthday present, a 17″ LCD monitor for the new computer that dad recently gave me. now my desktop has three different monitors being powered by three different computers and i finally feel like i have sufficient computational power at my fingertips!
my other project is providing tech support to mom as she transitions to her System76 computer running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. there are some issues that we are identifying that need to be addressed during this time period, some of which may not be directly overcome, but i am hopeful that this can be done successfully.
Tags: Ubuntu