I don’t know what the deal is this year, but I am sick once again. I have a cold and I don’t know who I got it from. In addition to that, I work up this morning with a splitting headache. Hopefully I’m NOT experience caffeine withdrawals. My nose has been running for days on end and my whole entire head is stuffed up. It’s bad horrible. I’ve been pounding the fluids and been using some Zicam or…Zircam…whatever it’s called. That has definitely helped me avoid the worst of it I believe. If it’s the same stuff that the guys at work had, then I really did because both of them missed at least two days of work; glad I didn’t. Hopefully I’ll be well enough to enjoy my day tomorrow. Until then….
Monthly Archive for May, 2004
One of the most unexpected joys of living in Ogden is living next to Hill Air Force Base. I have no mentioned this before, but I LOVE airplanes. I like planes of all types, but mostly I love fighter jets. Every evening the pilots come in after their afternoon runs. Every day I get to see between ten and fifteen F-16 Fighting Falcons (and even the occasional F-15 or F/A-122 Raptor) come in for a landing at Hill. It really is quite cool. Sometimes, coming in over Riverdale Road, they get so low that you can see their lighting and the numbering on the plane. Then, if the sun is right, you can see the pilot when he makes his final turn to approach the runway. It’s truly awesome!
The HAFB annual airshow is coming up in a few weeks and I’m really wanting to go. As long as Corinne is OK with that, I’m in fat city. Additionally, there is the Hill Field Museum that we will be paying a visit to shortly. Hopefully I’ll be able to learn more and more about planes and their history.
Corinne and I picked up some new fish today. I decided that it was time to get rid of "Hilter", the killer zebra Mbuna, and to start fresh. I picked up a Ruby Red Peacock, an Electric Blue Ahli, a Ruby Green Haplochromis, and a clown loach. I really like the loach and think that I’ll pick a few more up in a day or two. The fish are all babies, no more than one and a half inches long. Eventually, I’m going to need to get a new tank (I have my eye on a curved-front seventy-two gallon beauty), but for now my 30 gallon tank will suffice. The fish are totally beautiful and I will soon have some pictures of them all up.
There are a few things in the tank that I want to redo. I think I’ll start by redoing the substrate. I currently just have standard small pebbles down there, but my research tells me that sand is the better option as the lakes that all of these fish come from (Lakes Victoria and Malawi in Eastern Africa) are sandy bottomed. So, that is likely to change as is the rock types. I currently have just some black lava in there, but I understand that it can oxidize and poison the fish.
I was sad to take Hitler back, but he simply had to go as I knew that any new fish that I put in there would be munched. The owner of the store, Aquatic Dreams was kind to take him back. Unfortunately, many overly aggressive cichlids get taken back because people simply don’t know what they’re buying; I was no exception in the begging and i now know better. < ?p>
I’m back at the office today finishing my Gentoo install. OpenOffice.org and Evolution have successfully compiled and you’d think that would be good enough, but alas I have decided to recompile my kernel. Whee! Once prior, I reported that I successfully compiled a kernel on my SuSE box; I lied. The kernel was compiling when I posted that entry, but never successfully finished. So, now here I am nearly a year later SUCCESSFULLY compiling kernels. Had I not decided to use Gentoo, I would have never learned this. Linux Rewlz!
I installed SuSE Linux on my work machine the other day. While it works great, I decided that it was time for a chnage. I’m pretty much aware of ALL of the Linux distributions that are available to us in the U.S. and have looked at nearly every one of them. Gentoo, one of these ditros, caught my eye at one time, but I never found the time to install it. Well, one of the guys at work turned me onto it again and so I decided to spend last night getting it up and going.
Gentoo is an all-source distribution. What does that mean you ask? It means that instead of downloading pre-compiled binary programs, it instead downloads the source code to each program and compiles it. This process DOES take a LONG time; however, your end product is a system that is completely tailored to your own system that runs VERY fast. I was here ’till 2:00 this morning and am back to add the finishing touches so that the system is ready for showtime come Monday. Additionally, the KDE install is the "actual" KDE isntall, not one that has been modified like what you would find in SuSE or Redhat. It looks a lot cleaner and functions better overall. So far, with excpetion to the time I’ve spent (Corinne is out of town, what better do I have to do?), I have no complaints about the system.
