An update on life in general….

Well here it is another month without a posting…it’s like trying to keep a New Years promise. If it had been a job, I would have been fired…LOL

My last day at work was the 10th…it was very sad as there is history with at place and my family. I took a week off…it was badly needed and on the 6th day of my vacation, I landed another job. I’m now a facilities maintenance worker for a large hotel chain. I can see myself going very far with this company and the work is a breeze…I even started out making more than the last job, but there’s a ways to go for the good money.

I bought 3 more structures for the train layout to make a small commercial district in the middle of the layout. I don’t know when I’ll have the time to work on it…maybe when school’s back in session. I love being able to have more quality time with the girls….even Ann appreciates it.

School is going alright after a rocky start with books being late. I’m holding a B+ so far with Business Math being the roughest class. Distance Education is the way to go. I sit down when I want and do as much or as little as I feel like.

Not much more going on…hope all is well in your world.

Dreamlinux 4.0 Beta 4

The new Beta v.4 is available here:

http://www.ngsys.eti.br/pub/DL4

This semester is finally over

I got an A in business communications and a B in legal environment of business.

Working 60+ hours a week and dealing with a family, I’d say that the grades aren’t too bad.

Distro hopping is becoming old hat for me.

I don’t know if it’s me these days, but does it feel sort of boring trying out the latest releases? In the last two weeks, I’ve tried out Lucid RC, PCLOS 2010, PCLOS-G 2010 and it all just strikes me as more of the same ‘ol same ‘ol….No new programs, no new gizmos to play with, the same looks and feels.

It seems like we’ve lost our imagination somewhere along the way, and it’s not just Linux; look at new cars, clothing, remakes of movies and the list goes on. Is what I’m asking for just too much, that is, can’t we come out with something exciting and inovative?

A strange thing happened to me this morning…

I went to use scribus this morning for a sign on my fruit packing plant I’m building for the train layout. Funny thing was, it wasn’t on the menu…I know it was installed, but it wasn’t there after I installed it. It has to be a glitch somewhere as it will run from the terminal.

It's my turn to take a break…

I just got home a little while ago and after a nap, I’m going to take Emily to the pool…I’m so tired and stressed today, that I thought a swim might do me good before dinner.

Getting back to business

I can’t believe its been a few months since I had a qualitative posting…life can throw you curves that way. School, work, and family life have taken precedence over my blog, but I’m going to try and make a habit of getting something on here more often from now on.

Work has been my biggest concern lately. The company that I work for announced a month ago that they’re ceasing operations in Lake Havasu within 6 months and moving the work to Las Vegas, which has me beating the streets filling out applications and handing out resumes again. It seems like I just got settled in my job, and I’m out looking for another one…sometimes I feel like Jobe!

My Linux time is very limited as well. I’ve been playing around with animating my desktop in Hardy, which I posted about on LhX this morning, and I’ve checked out Ubuntu 10.04 Beta2 the other day…I don’t like the placement of the window buttons on the left side…why did they do that?; just to throw everyone a curve ball?

My train time has gone by the wayside until school is over…I uncover it for a few minutes every other day to make sure its still there and then quickly cover it up again. I did find another Bachmann F unit on Ebay for $15.00, which was a great deal…5 minutes of fixing and it was good as new.

Well, now you’re up to date with what’s happening in my neck of the woods…what’s new with you?

Dreamlinux has a new administrator….

And it’s me!…Richs-lhx over at Linux-Hardcore turned over the admin position to me a couple of days ago.

I’m very excited about the prospects of Dreamlinux 4.0 in 2010 and have great ideas for taking the forum to the next level.

Come visit us at:

dreamlinuxforums.org

Fossunet…A Linux Social Site

I wanted to announce the beginning of Fossunet, a venture of my Friend Rich in Barcelona….It’s a great idea and I think it will take off like a rocket:

http://fossnet.linux-hardcore.com/

My Birthday '09

What a peaceful day it was…first day of winter and nothing to do but relax and enjoy the day.

I worked on the websites, which was long overdue. I was overrun by an attack from the far East which trashed my logs. There was some cleanup that needed to be done as well from the move from Geocities.

Then I got to play with the layout. I repaired another box car and ran a DCC session to test it out. I had some planning time in there as well and I thought of some new ideas for the right foreground…some sort of freight scene I’m thinking.

And then it was time for dinner….spinach lasagna and for dessert, chocolate cake with cherry filling.

I couldn’t have asked for a nicer day…..