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Today was a descent day.  I was able to get some coding done at work and all in all had few problems to deal with, minus an error that cropped up due to a downed database in the afternoon.  When I got home from work I kept loading up the Linux part of my system to get it back to where it was before my system went dead on me.  For the most part it’s back up and seems to be working well =) .   I know I have some extra helper software and programs that I need to install yet, but that will come when the need reminds me of it.

In spite of sounding like a broken record and pending any other show stoppers, I have two goals that I really want to knock out of the way this weekend.  I am finishing the user library package for CodeIgniter and getting a long run in as well.  My running has really slacked this week from lack of sleep and poor planning with my daily schedule.  This lack of sleep issue has really tolled on my system and I am heading to bed tonight by 9:45pm.  I normally head to bed by 10pm but lately it seems like its after midnight before I’m in bed.  Tomorrow I’m going to get back into the groove of scheduled running and plan to hammer out a long run on Sunday.

PS: Michelle, hope things turn around for you and happier days find their way back.

Today was a long day.  I was tired the whole day and was pretty busy in the morning trying to get caught up on some stuff that cropped up from my day of absence.  My Acer monitor and new motherboard showed up today.  I always have my stuff shipped directly to my workplace so I set up my new monitor on my work PC as a second display monitor and it was awesome =) .  I brought my tower in to work today and blew out the dust and mounted my new motherboard in it near the end of the day and from the small time I ran it I knew it was running boat loads better with the new motherboard.

When I got home I installed Windows XP first and made sure all the drivers were working.  Lucas stopped by to pick me up to go to Pizza Hut and before we left I started up the memory test that I was running before.  After we got back the memory test was at about sixty percent and had no errors on the same memory it had found so many errors with just last week.  I felt confident with my memory and canceled the test.

We found out tonight that Jake won’t be coming home for Thanksgiving =( .  It turns out if he has to go further than 300 miles from the base he has to take public transportation to do so and the cheapest form we could find that would give him enough time to even be here was over $500… sucks bad cause I know how much he wanted to come back for the day after Thanksgiving LAN party.  We’ll have another one when he gets back for Christmas leave!

Going to finish installing a base fresh install of Linux on my computer and head to bed… hopefully tomorrow I can get back into a normal routine of coding and running.

PS.  My Linux of choice is the new Ubuntu 8.10, 32 bit edition.  I hope the 32 bit edition works better with WINE, a Linux package I have tried to use in the past to play windows games and run other miscellaneous windows apps.