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Cold
It's in the teens again.
And I think I'm catching the cold Gary had all last week. Yuck.
At least the flood level outside has dropped, severely in fact. All over the place we have huge cracked slabs of ice where the water underneath has receded and the ice floating on top of it collapsed under its own weight.
Woven fabric is washed, dried, and ironed ready for the next study session tomorrow morning. I worked like mad this afternoon to catch up stuff piled on my desk, which may be a good thing between taking half the day off tomorrow and the sick sneezing and coughing I'm afraid I feel coming on.
<rant>You know, I'm tired of reading cracks about how Linux or BSD or OSX can't do any 'real' work and aren't ready for 'prime time'. I've been doing 100% of my daily work on Linux for a good three years now, including some very hefty database operations and all the usual spreadsheets and document creation. I do image processing there too, and web browsing, and all my e-mail. A year ago I switched all the public computers in the library to Linux and hardly anyone noticed. They still do the same things they always did, only they don't need twelve software licenses payable annually to do it and they don't keep crashing because some kid found another loophole in the patched together Windows security. Next time you feel like faulting Linux, consider this: maybe its just that you couldn't figure out how to use a real multiuser/multitasking OS. A lot of us do use it without difficulty.</rant>
And I think I'm catching the cold Gary had all last week. Yuck.
At least the flood level outside has dropped, severely in fact. All over the place we have huge cracked slabs of ice where the water underneath has receded and the ice floating on top of it collapsed under its own weight.
Woven fabric is washed, dried, and ironed ready for the next study session tomorrow morning. I worked like mad this afternoon to catch up stuff piled on my desk, which may be a good thing between taking half the day off tomorrow and the sick sneezing and coughing I'm afraid I feel coming on.
<rant>You know, I'm tired of reading cracks about how Linux or BSD or OSX can't do any 'real' work and aren't ready for 'prime time'. I've been doing 100% of my daily work on Linux for a good three years now, including some very hefty database operations and all the usual spreadsheets and document creation. I do image processing there too, and web browsing, and all my e-mail. A year ago I switched all the public computers in the library to Linux and hardly anyone noticed. They still do the same things they always did, only they don't need twelve software licenses payable annually to do it and they don't keep crashing because some kid found another loophole in the patched together Windows security. Next time you feel like faulting Linux, consider this: maybe its just that you couldn't figure out how to use a real multiuser/multitasking OS. A lot of us do use it without difficulty.</rant>