Luke

Windows 7 does NOT install. The product activation key does not work and they're closed on saturday!

I'm trying to figure out a strange mports bug right now. libtool15 doesn't get picked up as a dependancy. I should probably get some sleep so I can work in the morning.

This is the magic bullet that looks awfully intact to me. Google is hosting the Time Life archive now.

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I'm playing with Drivel 2.0.3. I still think it's the best blogging client for linux and bsd to date.

Caryn's in Mexico today for a business trip. She's been working on a project for another company through work and has to install the software for their customer. It's a vb6 app lol. I must admit I'm a bit nervous about her trip. It's been awhile since we've been apart for several days. I've never wanted to travel to Mexico for leisure.

I've spent the morning watching a Star Trek: New Voyages episode, uploading videos to youtube, and making midnightbsd desktop backgrounds.

Here are some examples of the wallpaper I'm making

I was looking through some old files today and came across this photo. I ran it through photoshop to clean it up a bit.

I've had a boring summer. I got through stats finally. Even got a B+. One semester left and I can't wait to get it over with.

Here's a picture of Henry and I:

Over the last few months, I've found myself busy, stressed and tired. The holidays were particularly stressful this year. I did not see my father at all during Christmas. My mother got a PS2 and I helped her set it up with DDR. My other relatives were quite weird. During Thanksgiving, my mother came to our apartment and had tofurkey with us. On New Years Eve, I went to a friends home. Chris has a nice party. It has been some time since I went to a party on New Years. Caryn had some wine and I had some beer. We watched old Red Wings games from the 90s, laughed at idiots on the Internet and some people played cards. There were around 16 people at the party. Half were married couples.

I haven't felt much like blogging lately. I have put some things up in http://www.justjournal.com/users/laffer1 and http://www.justjournal.com/users/mbsd

My father has started his Christmas crap early this year. He's decided his family is evil. See it's our fault that he didn't buy us birthday gifts and we did the same for him. Now he's sent my mother a nasty letter saying he doesn't want to see any of us or go to any of our events. At first I was thinking about how great it will be with no bullshit. I don't have to buy him a gift. Then I realized he'll show up anyway to ruin it for everyone else.

Family can be so difficult to deal with.

It seems like something is severely wrong with Just Journal.  I got hit with some "light" traffic from Google and Safari was timing out connecting to the site.  Strange thing is other browsers usually work fine.  I can't seem to isolate the exact problem.  Even static content is served with HTTP headers in the web page area sometimes.  Its almost too consistent.  It could be an MBSD network stack problem, but I don't think that's it.  It drives me nuts.

I wish the semester would end. Its getting close, and the homework is adding up. I've been working on a website with my course work and a new design for my Jewel site. Its up at http://people.emich.edu/lholt3

I'm taking two english courses this spring. Ugh. Its a very ambitious schedule to fit everything in. I can't find a thing for summer term. That is a bummer. My birthday is on the 12th. I'm not looking forward to it this year. Come to think of it, Jenny's birthday is very soon. It might even be today. If so, happy birthday "Jen". :)

Larry and Di stopped by to celebrate their wedding anniversary. It was a very strange experience. Larry suggested we go to Seva's as it would be easier on his diet. Caryn and I hadn't gone to Seva's in a few months.

As usual, they simply talked about politics, movies, florida, work and cats.

I was quite glad to get it over with. I usually don't mind them, but I've been feeling bad lately. I don't have patience when I'm feeling ill.

Caryn and I had to get grocery shopping out of the way after that. I think tomorrow should be light in comparison.

My os project has started to take off. MidnightBSD has had a number of downloads and a few thousand hits in a week. Not bad for a non mainstream os.

There is much more to do.

I got accepted into Eastern Michigan University. I've got an advising appointment setup early next month. Hopefully I can whip this done.

Well i'm at a sticking point with just journal. I'm going to need to do some major work to get past this point. I'll get it figured out though.

Well get this.. ie7 beta and mozilla seamonkey both got released today. Its just like the old days. Seamonkey is just like netscape 6... a little too much. I was hoping for a firefox interface refresh but with the suite features. Bummer.

I'm building a new linux kernel for my assignment due tomorrow. This is a bitch. Last one wouldn't fucking boot. i hate linux. now trying 2.6.15.1 with a default config + scsi and creative drivers (not as module) with module support. i'll see what modules are loading and then build them in.

I posted some code to the LJ.NET community for iTunes integration with their client. I developed it for JJ. I hope they add it. It would be nice. This client is very good.

So far just journal has been going well. I added avatars last month and a bunch of other features.