So my weekend is gone, and I have to go to work in the morning.
This wouldn’t bother me if the work involved wasn’t so monotonous.
In the meantime, I’ve been to another LUG meeting in the hopes of snagging myself a set of Fedora Core 1 CDs. I sat through rabid anti-MS Linux zealotry and various presentations that could fall under the categories ‘boring’, ‘inaccurate and incompetently done’ and ‘esoteric with a poor demo’ (though the last one was a bit more interesting than the others, since it covered LTSP, including how network booting occurs. I participated actively, since I knew a thing or two about it). Of course, given the general low level of competence of IT staff in this region, I came off looking like a minor celebrity. I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing. (Of course, they ran out of CDs. Maybe later.)
I never did get started on that Sawfish feature. Oh well.
Linux.Ars and the article came out. Unfortunately, the comments to the former were rather underwhelming — arguing about Linux’s ease-of-use instead of discussing Red Carpet/Open Carpet or my section, syslog. I submitted a story on /. about the Robert Love article. Apparently most of it was way over the Slashdolts’ heads, so the comments for that story were mostly a part of a gigantic GNOME vs. KDE flamewar, since the only part they seemed to understand was that Project Utopia was slated to be GNOME-centric.
So my sister probably won’t return until at least the second week of February. I sure hope Return of the King is still playing then. 
Amir’s hardware still hasn’t showed up, and I’m really craving faster hardware right now. :/ If it ever shows up, I’m going to get an ATX case (all I have here are Baby AT chassis) and a cheap PCI linmodem (probably some ESS job). I’m hoping it integrates video and audio (probably does, being an nForce board). If not, I guess I’ll still stick with the 1995 Cirrus Logic GD5430 I’m using now and a (possibly damaged) Fortémedia card I pulled out of a system it was preventing from POSTing. (*sob*) OK, that’s enough chicken-counting-before-hatching.
Oh well, I’ll wait.
I should be getting to bed soon. It’s past one a.m. and I need to be up at eight.
