Hey! The days are easy to keep track of in January aren’t they? Got my computer back to normal, so to say. I dual booted windows XP and Umbuntu for a couple days to try it. I partitioned my hard drive and when I installed Umbuntu, it partitioned it again. Obviously I have a lot to learn. I should get some good tips if I go to Penguicon this year. I’d really like to learn linux better now that I know a little about it.

I took the time today to organize my bookmarks too. They were really a mess. I have them organized in folders now.  They are all nice and neat now.

My desk is a mess. I have disks laying all over. Before I formatted my hard drive the first time I burned all my music, pictures, and documents to CD. My music took two CDs. My documents took one. Then, I have my XP disk, game disks, and two floppy disks. The floppy disks were in case I messed up on my reinstall. I had to delete all my partitions and then combine them so I had to get A shareware program to do that. I also made a windows boot disk. I have notes all over so I remember what disk is what, what I installed, and my screennames and passwords for all the programs that I use. I will get it cleaned up soon.

I’ve been listening to music all day the last couple days. I managed to save all my music from my reformatting. It is actually better organized this time. I didn’t realize how much I like music.  My roommates have to keep reminding me to quit singing, humming, whistling, tapping my feet, and just generally making noise. I don’t realize I am doing it until they remind me. Sorry guys! Might be different if I could sing, but I can’t.

I have been feeling better and better inside the last few days. I don’t really know why. I have had a lot of trouble with George (that’s my computer’s name). Still don’t have a lot of money. My roommates parents had us over on my birthday for pizza and Cyli made me a cake. Maybe I am just getting settled in. I’ve been reading Dr. Phils book about finding the real you. It has made me think a lot about the direction my life is going in and where I want it to go.

A lot of people are placing a lot of things on me. A friend wants me to help him out with his business, my brother wants me to wire his addition, one of my exes wants me to come over and fix her roof along with other things, and other people want me to do something else. I have such a hard time telling people no. Don’t know what I’ll do tomorrow (today actually). Maybe I’ll put everyones name in a hat and whoever gets drawn, gets me for the day. I missed bingo last night. It’s a long drive for volunteering. I feel bad that I let them down, but I just wasn’t up to it last night. I’ve been going to bed after 3am the last few nights.

It’s been real cold here in Michigan. Monday it was so cold and windy out that the pipes going to the bath tub froze. The faucet broke. No tub or shower here until we get it fixed. Took a shower at Miss Lori’s Tuesday. I also awoke on Tuesday to about eight inches of snow on the car. That’s another reason I have been just sitting at home the last few days.