Free Time, Bread, and Penguins
We started a new schedule at work last night, as we’ve hired more people. While mine doesn’t change a whole lot (still working nights, still midnight to 8AM), we’ve gained two night people (or gained one and replaced one) so I now get two nights off a week. They’re Friday night and Monday night, which isn’t the greatest combination, but at least it’s something.
Also, one of the two new night guys (Chris, who’s replacing Max) also happens to be my next door neighbor. This means that this one entire corner of the building, for three of the four floors, is associated with TS.
In other news, I tried out my bread machine for the first time yesterday. I’ve had it for about a year (got it from my mom since she wasn’t using it) and am just now learning how to work it. I only made a loaf of basic white bread so I could figure out basically how it works, but it was pretty good. Plus, it’s fun having an apartment that smells like fresh-baked bread. I’ve got a book of bread machine bread recipes, which I’ve been skimming through since this loaf turned out a success, trying to decide what to make next.
For those of you who don’t know, I have a really cheap laptop. Said laptop was given to me by my last boss, as it was otherwise going to get scrapped. When I got it, it was running Windows 95, which had to be wiped, anyway, to remove any material related to said previous job. Since the laptop’s 5GB harddrive and 64MB ram weren’t sufficient to update it to Windows XP (the main reason it was being scrapped) I just installed DOS on it and dubbed it the DosTop. While there’s not a whole lot one can do with a laptop running only dos, it was perfect for playing old dos games, like Monkey Island. Two days ago, during a conversation with one of my coworkers, I remarked that I’d put Linux on my dostop instead of there was anyway to still run my dos games. As it turns out, there’s a software package called DosBox that was designed for exactly that purpose. So, as of last night, the DosTop is now a NixTop, running Damn Small Linux because the 64MB ram wasn’t enough to run Fedora. I’ve not gotten a change to play around with it much or install DosBox, but the major step of swapping operating systems has been completed.