Well, that was a bust
Jan. 25th, 2004 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsAfter Friday, I made my way back home, picking up Yamaarashi-chan along the way. I also picked up a new smoke detector; the one in the upstairs hall had passed its ten-year expiration date and the ionization detector was broken, so a new one was called for.
I backed up my laptop and started a rebuild from the ground up, using Gentoo. Bad mistake. Gentoo gave me no end of grief-- util-linux wouldn't build! The PCMCIA stuff didn't work! This is supposed to be a quality product, but it wasn't working worth a damn when I tried it.
So now I'm installing Debian. Red Hat was just too bloated and hard to work out for dependencies, which made fixing the toolchain from display adapter to video player damned near impossible, and I needed to do that to get my video playback to work. I also want the Con Kolivas performance set, which I really need to handle some of the throughput limitations of the hardware. Red Hat is fine for most people; it was great for me for two years. But now that I'm watching anime regularly on a P2-266, I needed better performance. I'm hacking for it. Debian has hackworthy cred; I'm hoping it lives up to my expectations.
I also tried out the toothpaste my dentist gave me. I have enough fillings that I have very sensitive teeth, so he gave me Crest Sensitive teeth and told me to use up the whole tube, then I could go back to what I used regularly. Well, what I use regularly is Tom's of Maine and I had forgotten just how sweet Crest is. Yuck!
Saturday after I made the kids scrambled egg & cheese sandwiches,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fallenpegasus took Omaha out to go shopping, and Omaha came back with some gorgeous fetishwear. He stayed over and I cooked dinner for everybody, just plain American burgers and fries, but lots of veggies and quality made.
Omaha wasn't feeling well, so I helped put the girls to bed and then she read to them before heading to bed herself. Pegasus and I stayed up to absorb some media-- the Teen Titan's episode Terra, the first episode of Furi Kuri (oh my gods, that show is utterly, utterly weird), and the first episode of Read or Die, to which he gave thumbs up.
Sunday was the usual collection of chores: change the bedsheets, clean the kitchen, do the budget, plan the week's menu, that sort of thing. I also got around to fixing the smoke alarm. Omaha and I had to experiment because this house is wired just plain weird. There are twenty breaker positions, but not all of them are in use. They're poorly labeled. Other than the appliances, they all just read "lites" (sic).
Breaker 20 turned off a light over the television set but not the power to the TV, Kouryou-chan's computer but not the light in the playroom, and Omaha's power complex for her computer in the office at the other end of the house, but not mine. Breaker 17 had no discernable effect. (Breakers 18 and 19 were not in use.) Breaker 16 was the one we wanted; it turned off the hallway lights upstairs, the bathroom and the lights in the kitchen, but not the outlets by the floor along the hallway. Changing the smoke alarm was a routine wiring job, and now our new smoke alarm has battery backup and an escape light. I also notice the interval for changing has dropped from ten years to five years.
I have a battery powered spare in the closet. I'll probably install it downstairs. I originally bought it to replace the one upstairs, but I discovered that to be "up to code" in King County, the fire alarm has to wired to the house circuit and have a battery backup.
We took the kids to the park to burn off some energy. It was pretty freakin' cold out, but the girls were so thrilled to get out of the house they barely noticed. We went back and made egg salad sandwiches; the girls got to peel their own eggs and smash them, too. Little do they know I'm setting them up to fend for themselves one day. Bwahahaha.
I took Yamaarashi-chan home and things have been quiet. The debian install (doing their "testing" install, which isn't the stable one but has some nifty features I want) has been so far rather painless.
I backed up my laptop and started a rebuild from the ground up, using Gentoo. Bad mistake. Gentoo gave me no end of grief-- util-linux wouldn't build! The PCMCIA stuff didn't work! This is supposed to be a quality product, but it wasn't working worth a damn when I tried it.
So now I'm installing Debian. Red Hat was just too bloated and hard to work out for dependencies, which made fixing the toolchain from display adapter to video player damned near impossible, and I needed to do that to get my video playback to work. I also want the Con Kolivas performance set, which I really need to handle some of the throughput limitations of the hardware. Red Hat is fine for most people; it was great for me for two years. But now that I'm watching anime regularly on a P2-266, I needed better performance. I'm hacking for it. Debian has hackworthy cred; I'm hoping it lives up to my expectations.
I also tried out the toothpaste my dentist gave me. I have enough fillings that I have very sensitive teeth, so he gave me Crest Sensitive teeth and told me to use up the whole tube, then I could go back to what I used regularly. Well, what I use regularly is Tom's of Maine and I had forgotten just how sweet Crest is. Yuck!
Saturday after I made the kids scrambled egg & cheese sandwiches,
fallenpegasus took Omaha out to go shopping, and Omaha came back with some gorgeous fetishwear. He stayed over and I cooked dinner for everybody, just plain American burgers and fries, but lots of veggies and quality made.Omaha wasn't feeling well, so I helped put the girls to bed and then she read to them before heading to bed herself. Pegasus and I stayed up to absorb some media-- the Teen Titan's episode Terra, the first episode of Furi Kuri (oh my gods, that show is utterly, utterly weird), and the first episode of Read or Die, to which he gave thumbs up.
Sunday was the usual collection of chores: change the bedsheets, clean the kitchen, do the budget, plan the week's menu, that sort of thing. I also got around to fixing the smoke alarm. Omaha and I had to experiment because this house is wired just plain weird. There are twenty breaker positions, but not all of them are in use. They're poorly labeled. Other than the appliances, they all just read "lites" (sic).
Breaker 20 turned off a light over the television set but not the power to the TV, Kouryou-chan's computer but not the light in the playroom, and Omaha's power complex for her computer in the office at the other end of the house, but not mine. Breaker 17 had no discernable effect. (Breakers 18 and 19 were not in use.) Breaker 16 was the one we wanted; it turned off the hallway lights upstairs, the bathroom and the lights in the kitchen, but not the outlets by the floor along the hallway. Changing the smoke alarm was a routine wiring job, and now our new smoke alarm has battery backup and an escape light. I also notice the interval for changing has dropped from ten years to five years.
I have a battery powered spare in the closet. I'll probably install it downstairs. I originally bought it to replace the one upstairs, but I discovered that to be "up to code" in King County, the fire alarm has to wired to the house circuit and have a battery backup.
We took the kids to the park to burn off some energy. It was pretty freakin' cold out, but the girls were so thrilled to get out of the house they barely noticed. We went back and made egg salad sandwiches; the girls got to peel their own eggs and smash them, too. Little do they know I'm setting them up to fend for themselves one day. Bwahahaha.
I took Yamaarashi-chan home and things have been quiet. The debian install (doing their "testing" install, which isn't the stable one but has some nifty features I want) has been so far rather painless.
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Date: 2004-01-26 08:12 am (UTC)Fyi, my dentist suggested I use prescription-strength fluoride toothpaste to counteract dry mouth's affect on my teeth. The *funny* part is that the copay for the prescription is cheaper than any other toothpaste I've ever used.
Woops!
Date: 2004-01-26 03:24 pm (UTC)Oops, no, that wasn't intentional. I just let him know, and he's changing it now. Thanks for the alert. :)
Re: Woops!
Date: 2004-01-27 08:32 am (UTC)Re: Woops!
Date: 2004-01-27 03:24 pm (UTC)We're using their online names as a filtering mechanism. Because both Elf and I talk a lot about our personal lives on our public journals, and a clever person might be able to find out our phone and/or physical address, someone could show up at the door or call up and start talking to the kids like they're a long-lost relative (this actually happened to me when I was ten). If they can only identify the kids by their online names, then that's a tip to the kids that this person isn't who they say they are and that they are most likely getting their info solely from our journals.
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Date: 2004-01-30 06:18 am (UTC)