There Are Two Things I Can’t Stand. One of Them is Your Mom.
The title of this entry is taken from Johnny’s Room by The Bobs. It’s still pretty good music, even if they haven’t been popular for 20 years. Over break, I got two of their CDs and one by The Persuasions, and have been listening to them constantly.
Having said that, today was the greatest day in recent memory. I woke up before my alarm went off, had a long shower, went to lunch, and then had Robotics for the first time. That class is going to be awesome.
After Robotics, I came back and updated my computer. Suddenly, I can’t move windows around the screen any more. I try restarting Xorg, and still nothing. Let me explain how I restart Xorg: I log out of it, and it begins to shut down. Then it hangs, and I push the button to turn off my computer. Then I turn it on, and it decides that it didn’t have a clean shut-down, and checks if everything is ok. Then I restart X. At this point, I discover that my mouse doesn’t work any more. I can’t do a damn thing. So I have to power cycle my machine again, and pull up a command prompt. I call Mac (who, incidentally, is now switching to FreeBSD instead of Gentoo), and he comes and fixes it. I try exiting X again, and… it works. It actually logs out correctly and gives me the command prompt again! I figure, what the heck, if that works, maybe I can try messing around with X some more. Within 15 minutes, my second monitor is working. This is the first time it has worked since September. My computer is now working better than it ever has. I’m not sure what happened, but I want to have Mac’s babies.
And now it’s the weekend. It’s time for fun, partying, and not work. All in all, a great day.