Red Eye

So while at a coffee shop last night, I decide to try a drink called the red eye. It is shots of expresso in coffee. I asked how big it is and the guy shows me the one, two and three shot cups. I had almost an entire 4 page essay to write so I go for the three shot size. I FAILED TO COMPREHEND HOW MUCH CAFFEINE I WAS ABOUT TO PARTAKE. I did get alot done at the expense of a very upset stomach. I thought I was going to toss my cookies. But when it was 12:30 am and I wanted to sleep, I really regretted the three shot red eye…My stomach does still hurt a bit this morning.

Oh, my aching head

My head hurts. I’m plugging along in linear algebra all hunky dory and next thing I know we’re talking about spaces and subspaces and bases. I know how to do the stuff, I just don’t understand all of it. Atleast 24 is over and Steve will shut up now…that show bugs me. It’s way too intense for me and c’mon I don’t really believe all that stuff can actually happen in 24 hours. I find it an insult to my intelligence that the writers/producers think that I think that it can…pant… pant… pant….I think I may drink a beer and go to bed….

I did manage to get a good 25 minute walk in tonight. As Bryce would say I need to walk fifty laps to lose some of my fat butt…

Stray Dogs, Old Flames and Mandriva

Last night, while the kids were out in the yard, a dog wanders in. Of course, the kids go nuts. It’s a friendly dog. Looks to be some laborador/retriever mix and is still very much a pup. We walked him around the neighborhood a bit in case his owners were out looking for him without any luck. Steve thought we should just let him go and he’d go home. I said that we should keep him safe until we found his owner. It has a tag from the shelter with an ID number but the shelter was already closed. So we shut the gate to keep him in the back yard overnight. However, it was gone this morning. Then when I walked the kids to school, low and behold there he was at the school. I brought it back home and tried the shelter again but they don’t open til nine. For now, he’s shut in the garage until he can be returned to his owner.

Update: I contacted the shelter and got the phone number of the dogs owner. Called and left a message for them. Let’s hope they call back because I’d hate to turn it back into the shelter and we just can’t keep another pet (per Steve the big meanie).

Now onto the juicy stuff. Ran into an old flame last night when I took Bryce to wrestling. Normally wrestling was Tues/Thurs but this week they met Tues/Wed and that’s why I hadn’t seen him before because his son was wrestling Mon/Wed. Damn, he’s hot and a real sweetheart too! Met him at Homan Lumber where I used to work years ago as a cashier and he worked out in the lumber yard. I always was fond of him even after he dumped me for his now wife. I think because he was upfront and honest and didn’t lead me on. He just said that I wasn’t right for him. Can’t really argue with that. (I think I was too much for him if you know what I mean.) There’s an email floating about that says something along the lines of men every woman should have and one of those was a lover that she’d take back…yeah he’d be the one…mmmm. What could’ve been. I can’t really complain, though, about how my life turned out. I’ve got a great guy. Anyways, I’ve heard about another side to this guy but don’t really know if I trust the source. He was always a gentleman to me but I suppose people can change. It was nice to see him again. I see him every once in awhile and we catch up. I had to rub it into him that I have a motorcycle…hee hee.

Mandriva, Mandriva, Mandriva….I like to say that name. I was looking for a distribution of Linux to install on my laptop. One other that Fedora but still easy to install and maintain and one that didn’t require a bunch of configuring so I settled on Mandriva. It’s based on Red Hat. There is also a distro of Mandriva like Knoppix that can run off of CD and with an installation option. I considered that but it’s still beta and I’m not quite that ambitious (or patient). My second choice is Debian so if I’m not happy with Mandriva, I’ll try that. Debian just isn’t as fun to say. Anyways, I got the 64 bit .iso files, I just need to burn them now to CD and install Mandriva. That’s my goal for today. That and catch up on my Operating Systems homework. I know what I need to do, I just need to sit down and do it.