Linux, Finally

Sometimes, it’s really hard being married to a nerd *cough* geek *cough* programmer.

Sometimes, it’s absolutely lovely ’cause he’s so cool.

(Like when my site got hacked in March. I was going to blog about that but I didn’t get around to it. Poop, you know. Food and poop get in the way of a lot of things around here. My life is all about stuffing food in one end and cleaning what comes out the other end. It’s really fun when there’s not too much screaming involved. Anyway, to get back to the coolness of marriage.)

Ben just installed VectorLinux 5.9 on an ancient laptop that Jessica gave me, an IBM ThinkPad 390E, Pentium II, 333Mhz. I’ve been wanting to use Linux for years and now, in between nursing and feeding and potty training both kids and shopping and cooking, we’ll see how much I’ll learn. I can’t wait!

And even though this laptop is so old, it looks brand new because it’s been so well taken care of. I love ThinkPads and am still upset about the whole Lenovo thing. So far, I’ve only owned ThinkPads and I had planned to keep doing that till the day I died. My ThinkPad gave up the ghost last year after many years of faithful service and I’m looking elsewhere for its replacement. The MacBook Air is looking very appealing right now, since I can have OS X, Windows, and Linux all on one small, beautiful, super-portable machine. Now, all I need is showers of money. Hahaha. *tries not to think about bills, and more bills, and house payments, and car payments, and … mumbles*