Fluff and forgetfulness
Mar. 20th, 2006 03:00 pmSo I thought, maybe this break, if I actually get around to it, I'll finally format this machine (I'm on the desktop right now, of course, not the laptop; you remember about all the problems with the desktop) and install a different Linux distribution. Of course, that means backing it up first. Just what's in my home directory, of course, any programs I need I can just reinstall. Of course, that's still 3.5 GB. Yay. However, after going through it, I find that only 800 MB of it is actual ...what might you call it? content? (and of course, of that, only a small fraction is stuff I'm ever going to look at again), the rest is all program-installation stuff that I never bothered to get rid of after actually installing the program. Yay. (I just let this stuff accumulate on the laptop as well, and on the old computer as well, and, well, I do it generally. I really ought to clean that stuff out.)
Heh, so when I first left for Chicago, I brought an ethernet cable, right? Turns out they gave us all one when we got there, not that I need it due to the wireless. The ethernet doesn't seem to even *work* in my room, but I haven't bothered to submit a work order because, as I said, there's the wireless. Anyway, I give the extra cable back to my parents to take home. Now winter break is ending, and I'm going back to Chicago, and I'm packing up my laptop and the associated cords and I see the ethernet cable and I think, "Wait... is this the ethernet cable that was brought back, or did I bring this back myself? I suppose it's the one I brought back myself, so I better pack it.", completely forgetting:
1. I didn't *bring* the ethernet cable over there back
2. Doing so would have required unwinding it from around that thing on the ceiling
3. Even if I *had* brought it back home, I wouldn't *need* to bring it back to school, since I don't use it there!
Well, I bring it back to school, and now I have 2 ethernet cables there, using neither of them. Now it's spring break, and I completely forget about them, because I don't use them. So I bring my laptop home and now I can't connect it to the internet without disconnecting this computer. Yay. This also means I can't get the two to talk to each other, though I suppose I could by just connecting them directly (disconnecting *both* from the internet, though that wouldn't really be a problem in that case).
Yay.
ADDENDUM: Also, when I get back to Chicago, I'm going to count my Icehouse pieces and order replacements. In the basic 4 colors and black. The rest will be put away somewhere. Seriously, who needs more than 5 colors? All I use them for is Gnostica and Homeworlds, and occasionally Volcano or Zendo. I have enough to play 2 player Homeworlds, but not enough for more, or for multiplayer Gnostica unless you go outside the basic colors, which I want to avoid. Also, keeping less pieces means the bag won't be overstuffed and perhaps the pieces won't fall out, though probably I ought to get a new bag. Also, I'll get a new Piecepack. I'm too lazy to just make the printable one. I only ever really used it for Alien City, but Alien City is a really cool game!
-Sniffnoy
Heh, so when I first left for Chicago, I brought an ethernet cable, right? Turns out they gave us all one when we got there, not that I need it due to the wireless. The ethernet doesn't seem to even *work* in my room, but I haven't bothered to submit a work order because, as I said, there's the wireless. Anyway, I give the extra cable back to my parents to take home. Now winter break is ending, and I'm going back to Chicago, and I'm packing up my laptop and the associated cords and I see the ethernet cable and I think, "Wait... is this the ethernet cable that was brought back, or did I bring this back myself? I suppose it's the one I brought back myself, so I better pack it.", completely forgetting:
1. I didn't *bring* the ethernet cable over there back
2. Doing so would have required unwinding it from around that thing on the ceiling
3. Even if I *had* brought it back home, I wouldn't *need* to bring it back to school, since I don't use it there!
Well, I bring it back to school, and now I have 2 ethernet cables there, using neither of them. Now it's spring break, and I completely forget about them, because I don't use them. So I bring my laptop home and now I can't connect it to the internet without disconnecting this computer. Yay. This also means I can't get the two to talk to each other, though I suppose I could by just connecting them directly (disconnecting *both* from the internet, though that wouldn't really be a problem in that case).
Yay.
ADDENDUM: Also, when I get back to Chicago, I'm going to count my Icehouse pieces and order replacements. In the basic 4 colors and black. The rest will be put away somewhere. Seriously, who needs more than 5 colors? All I use them for is Gnostica and Homeworlds, and occasionally Volcano or Zendo. I have enough to play 2 player Homeworlds, but not enough for more, or for multiplayer Gnostica unless you go outside the basic colors, which I want to avoid. Also, keeping less pieces means the bag won't be overstuffed and perhaps the pieces won't fall out, though probably I ought to get a new bag. Also, I'll get a new Piecepack. I'm too lazy to just make the printable one. I only ever really used it for Alien City, but Alien City is a really cool game!
-Sniffnoy
