Status Update

I suppose it’s that time of year…

Everyone at my house has had at least one round of the nasties this year. The kids: H1N1, strep throat, ear infections–one or more each. Mix-and-match to your liking. Marjorie is recovering from the pneumonia and whatever caused it, I’m slowly improving from the sinus infection, and whatever caused it (pneumonia and sinus infections being secondary to whatever else). Liv went down again–imitating me with her own sinus infection. She’s back at school now.

I’ve been to the urgent care place last week. Friday I’m off to my primary doc, who’ll check my cholesterol and get a bigger picture of whatever may be still going on.

In other news, the computer project at home went swimmingly. At first. The hardware came, I got it assembled in the evenings last week when I had the energy to get off the couch,  and was very happy that everything worked right. I’d done a lot of hardware work in the past, but never a complete machine. It was a little more nerve-wracking than I thought it would be.

I hooked up our old hard drives…and things started going a little hinky. Ubuntu worked fine. Windows XP was strange. I backed up the files and reinstalled. Cool. Worked fine. Then I booted Ubuntu and it immediately told me that the Windows drive had 94 bad sectors, was old and probably needed to be replaced. Why, oh why, didn’t Windows tell me that?

Nevermind. It booted. Perhaps Ubuntu was being a little over-sensitive. Right?

No, as it turns out. Windows crashed within days, and not just the blue death screen. It shut down the computer, it died so hard. Hmmm. After a couple of more tries here and there, I’ve decided Ubuntu knows best.

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