Current Music: Kathy Mattea – Roses – The Slender Threads That Bind Us Here

Ah, a nice weekend of sitting around and procrastinating heavily. As usual, the procrastinator gets to pay with work, work, work, and more work when that work is done. Well, it was worth it — my stress level is a little lower than it was. I needed it after three weeks of developing cabin fever sitting around on this campus (maybe it’s supposed to be campus fever).

Not all that much impressive happened — I managed to install SuSE Linux Professional 9.1 on darwin, my 1.8GHz home desktop computer. I initially installed it with Gnome’s desktop manager, but it didn’t work very well and was incredibly buggy, so I reinstalled with the default KDE. I have nothing against KDE, I just like Gnome.. but not when it doesn’t work right out of the box. The wireless card in darwin (which, I’m fairly certain, is a D-Link DWL-520+) doesn’t work under Linux, but then, almost no D-Link wireless cards work under Linux. I knew this when I installed and was hoping to download and install some drivers to fix the problem, but that may be a much bigger project than I’m willing to take on.

So here’s what I’m looking for: a reasonably cheap (but good quality) Linux-compatible wireless PCI card, as well as a new ISA (card slot) card for my laptop, autumn, which will likely be converted to SuSE over the summer at some point. If anyone has any recommendations, contact me.

I got to see Amanda this weekend too, which was really nice. There’s something calming about having the girl you love around, even if you aren’t doing all that much together. Her birthday is next week, so we’re both looking forward to that.

An unrelated thing — I was browsing the Web early Friday morning after 1AM because I couldn’t seem to get to sleep and stumbled across something via Memepool which I thought was rather interesting: a listing of abandoned and little-known Western Washington airports (as well as Eastern Washington and all of the 50 states, though I’m showing Western Washington here because, well, that’s where I am). This was an interesting read — check it out if you have a lot of time on your hands.

And if you aren’t procrastinating on a lot of schoolwork.

Kind of like me.