Just took a 20 Minute walk today. I don't think the weather will cooperate with the walk at lunch. The sushi seems to have punched the weight up again. I think next week I will try to run once or twice. I will probably need to to drop whatever I pick up at the fair.

I have decided that the next time someone tells me it's easier to install windows than linux I will just kill them. I am building Jennifer's new machine and it really astounds me what it takes to install windows. First, I had to reformat the drive so that the installer could read the disk. Apparently it did not understand the ext3 and reiserfs partitions that were already on the disk enough to ask if I wanted to delete them. Then, there was the applying of service packs, download and install drivers, updates, more updates, last round of updates. I think in all it was about 4 hours and at least 7 reboots. And that is just for the OS! The last install of Gentoo linux I did took 45 minutes start to finish. At the end of that 45 minutes I had a fully installed system that was up to date with all patches. Additionally, the linux kernel had drivers for all of my hardware, they were detected and adding the neccessary modules to the kernel took about 10 seconds. Windows failed to recognize any of the nforce chipsets on the motherboard. If only quicken ran on linux even under wine. Sigh.

Update: I can now search for and edit blogs with my blogging mode