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Jan. 7th, 2010
Met an old friend again
Jan. 7th, 2010 12:09 amI met my friend Joe Moore today, for the first time in months if not years. We had arranged to meet downtown, at Park Central Square. He scraped together $1.35 for a bus pass and transfer, and I went up to Park Central Square to meet him. He arrived a little later than I expected, and we went over to the library and Coffee Ethic, where I ordered Askinosie Hot Chocolates for both of us and showed him pictures on my new laptop.
Then we caught the bus back to my place before his transfer expired, and I cooked a pizza on the rotary cooker and showed the first 2/3 or so of the live-action Casshern movie. It largely put him to sleep (though this was partly a consequence of his messed up sleep schedule, it also kind of put me to sleep too) so I stopped it and instead set up my old laptop for Joe.
Since my parents and siblings went together to get me this unbelievably awesome new laptop as a gift, I no longer needed the old one—but I figured it might come in handy for Joe. So I set up an admin account for him on it, made sure anything I wanted from my user directory was copied out, and renamed and passed it over to him.
The laptop is running Xubuntu 9.10, with all the most recent updates installed. I went over the basics of it with him, how the menus worked and so on. It's really not a great machine—doesn't have a functional battery, only 256 megs of RAM, prone to overheating and kernel panicking, and sometimes the battery needs reseating for it to come on at all. But on the other hand, it can be taken places. And I'm sure he'll get more use out of it now than I would.
At about 4:45 we caught the bus up to the square, Joe to transfer to another bus home and me to head over to BrewCo for a beer, then back to the square to pick up a library book on interlibrary loan. I stayed at the library until it closed at 9, working on a TeleRead article. Then I caught the bus back.
It's gonna be really cold tonight and tomorrow. I got a letter from the landlord advising letting the water run to keep pipes from freezing. I guess I'll be doing just that.
Then we caught the bus back to my place before his transfer expired, and I cooked a pizza on the rotary cooker and showed the first 2/3 or so of the live-action Casshern movie. It largely put him to sleep (though this was partly a consequence of his messed up sleep schedule, it also kind of put me to sleep too) so I stopped it and instead set up my old laptop for Joe.
Since my parents and siblings went together to get me this unbelievably awesome new laptop as a gift, I no longer needed the old one—but I figured it might come in handy for Joe. So I set up an admin account for him on it, made sure anything I wanted from my user directory was copied out, and renamed and passed it over to him.
The laptop is running Xubuntu 9.10, with all the most recent updates installed. I went over the basics of it with him, how the menus worked and so on. It's really not a great machine—doesn't have a functional battery, only 256 megs of RAM, prone to overheating and kernel panicking, and sometimes the battery needs reseating for it to come on at all. But on the other hand, it can be taken places. And I'm sure he'll get more use out of it now than I would.
At about 4:45 we caught the bus up to the square, Joe to transfer to another bus home and me to head over to BrewCo for a beer, then back to the square to pick up a library book on interlibrary loan. I stayed at the library until it closed at 9, working on a TeleRead article. Then I caught the bus back.
It's gonna be really cold tonight and tomorrow. I got a letter from the landlord advising letting the water run to keep pipes from freezing. I guess I'll be doing just that.
Met an old friend again
Jan. 7th, 2010 12:09 amI met my friend Joe Moore today, for the first time in months if not years. We had arranged to meet downtown, at Park Central Square. He scraped together $1.35 for a bus pass and transfer, and I went up to Park Central Square to meet him. He arrived a little later than I expected, and we went over to the library and Coffee Ethic, where I ordered Askinosie Hot Chocolates for both of us and showed him pictures on my new laptop.
Then we caught the bus back to my place before his transfer expired, and I cooked a pizza on the rotary cooker and showed the first 2/3 or so of the live-action Casshern movie. It largely put him to sleep (though this was partly a consequence of his messed up sleep schedule, it also kind of put me to sleep too) so I stopped it and instead set up my old laptop for Joe.
Since my parents and siblings went together to get me this unbelievably awesome new laptop as a gift, I no longer needed the old one—but I figured it might come in handy for Joe. So I set up an admin account for him on it, made sure anything I wanted from my user directory was copied out, and renamed and passed it over to him.
The laptop is running Xubuntu 9.10, with all the most recent updates installed. I went over the basics of it with him, how the menus worked and so on. It's really not a great machine—doesn't have a functional battery, only 256 megs of RAM, prone to overheating and kernel panicking, and sometimes the battery needs reseating for it to come on at all. But on the other hand, it can be taken places. And I'm sure he'll get more use out of it now than I would.
At about 4:45 we caught the bus up to the square, Joe to transfer to another bus home and me to head over to BrewCo for a beer, then back to the square to pick up a library book on interlibrary loan. I stayed at the library until it closed at 9, working on a TeleRead article. Then I caught the bus back.
It's gonna be really cold tonight and tomorrow. I got a letter from the landlord advising letting the water run to keep pipes from freezing. I guess I'll be doing just that.
Then we caught the bus back to my place before his transfer expired, and I cooked a pizza on the rotary cooker and showed the first 2/3 or so of the live-action Casshern movie. It largely put him to sleep (though this was partly a consequence of his messed up sleep schedule, it also kind of put me to sleep too) so I stopped it and instead set up my old laptop for Joe.
Since my parents and siblings went together to get me this unbelievably awesome new laptop as a gift, I no longer needed the old one—but I figured it might come in handy for Joe. So I set up an admin account for him on it, made sure anything I wanted from my user directory was copied out, and renamed and passed it over to him.
The laptop is running Xubuntu 9.10, with all the most recent updates installed. I went over the basics of it with him, how the menus worked and so on. It's really not a great machine—doesn't have a functional battery, only 256 megs of RAM, prone to overheating and kernel panicking, and sometimes the battery needs reseating for it to come on at all. But on the other hand, it can be taken places. And I'm sure he'll get more use out of it now than I would.
At about 4:45 we caught the bus up to the square, Joe to transfer to another bus home and me to head over to BrewCo for a beer, then back to the square to pick up a library book on interlibrary loan. I stayed at the library until it closed at 9, working on a TeleRead article. Then I caught the bus back.
It's gonna be really cold tonight and tomorrow. I got a letter from the landlord advising letting the water run to keep pipes from freezing. I guess I'll be doing just that.