It is all fixed!

[melannen]

Okay, so, the *weirdest* thing about being on the Linux computer - and at the same time, the thing that made me finally feel like it was a home computer, and not just a substitute - was remembering that the solitaire Seahaven Towers is almost, but not quite, the same as freecell. A computer isn't a home until you've wasted time playing card solitaire there. (Well, really, a *home* isn't home until then, either. Solitaire: a family tradition, a treasured ritual, a foundation of a lifestyle. I used to know about twenty-five ways to play, many learned at my grandmother's knee. At the moment I'd be lucky to remember five. But I still have a u40% win rate at four-color spider!)

Back when I first put Linux on that box, it was my freshman year of college. It was the other time in my life when I was trying to keep a webcomic consistently updated. And I made a tradition, every night, to play enough games of solitaire to make it through one play of "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste" - I did that again last night and it was like being eight years back in time. I wrote an SF story back in high school about a future historian who is on a Mission to discover the origin of the famous Solter Protocols that underly all computer architecture and repeat themselves on system after system (I forget how it ended though....)

Anyway, now that I've got the linux box more-or-less working the way I want it to, the laptop is getting power again (yay for being friends with mad scientists!) and I've had a soldering lesson, so if it does it again, I can maybe fix it myself yay! And I'll probably abandon the desktop for weeks at a time again. :P

One thing this whole saga reminded me of is why I always used to keep my bookmarks online instead of in the browser: because if you have to switch computers, it's nice to have them there. Back at school, my bookmarks list was on my webspace, and the home page that came up whenever I opened a new tab or window; Opera has a "speed dial" function that works pretty much like that, so I didn't bother resurrecting it when I got a new webspace, but, alas, the Opera fuction requires that I be on my usual version of Opera.

So I'm going to do what I've been meaning to do for awhile, and make posts here in which I share with ya'll the list of links I visit fairly frequently. (But first I'll have to get caught up. And then decide for good which of the provisionally discarded links go on the trash heap for good. Difficult!)

Comments

[ibowieh3.livejournal.com]

All you need is the will to do it and a careful method and you can fix any thing. Books can tell you the rest of the detailed stuff.

[melannen]

I have found that with a lot of the hands-on, 3-D parts (like soldering. Or darning.) it can save a lot of frustration to be able to watch someone who knows what they're doing. But yes! The most important part is remembering that you can.