Well, I just can’t seem to get back into the swing of things these days. Two weeks ago, I began my hiatus with a rollicking good time by having a flu/fever combo that had me on my back, burning up and moaning to Saint Wife nonstop (for her part, she lived up to the title of Saint by not only taking care of me, but also by doing it with a warm smile). Following that (out of work for a week, out of commission to boot), I had a secondary bacterial infection that can best be summed up as a chest cold with complications. Nothing anti-biotics couldn’t cure, eventually, once I got over my dour outlook and started taking them.
In my free time, I tried rebuilding an old laptop as an Ubuntu desktop, with aspirations of having a sleek, light weight writing platform with a nice big keyboard and small desktop real estate. That failed. So I tried Debian – that installed, but then kept crashing. Being stubborn, I wrestled with Ubuntu for another week (better hardware detection among other things) before I finally got it to install, only to realize towards the end that the problem had nothing to do with the operating system. At some point in the last seven or so years of this laptop’s tenure in our home, I’ve pushed it to the edge just one too many times it appears. Alas, I finally threw in the towel this weekend when I was able to confirm that its the CPU that’s getting flaky, not the OS I’m trying to cram on top of it.
Meanwhile, in the spinning world around me, everyone but Katy has now been sick with what I had, with the added bonus that Anna has a double ear infection tacked on as of late last week. Always the medical drama, isn’t it?
And there, rather more succinctly than I had anticipated, is my personal life for the last two weeks. Now on to Part 2 of this post, chiefly a lamentation about how little I’ve accomplished in writing, but how cool the stuff I have done is 🙂