The Aerie
If my sleep schedule survives this latest abuse, it's going to doubtless demand compensation.
First off, I passed out on the evening of the 30th at 7:00 p.m., right after dinner. Told the wife I was feeling a bit off, wandered up to bed, and the next thing I knew it was the next morning. Twelve hours of sleep, and who knew it was coming? Not me.
Fast forward through today. After several weeks of doing what I felt I absolutely had to do, I was provided with choice: do what I thought should be done, or do what I wanted to do.
It's a sad commentary on my character that I ended up trying to build a dual-boot laptop.
Am I a slave to duty? No. But it's a sadder commentary that building a dual-boot laptop was what I wanted to do.
To be sure, it's a fairly unique opportunity -- my computer has just been rescued from oblivion by my ex-girlfriend (I'll leave that story for another day) -- and I actually have the time on my hands to plan and configure it for future use. Worth taking advantage of, especially since I'm going to need it to be working on Monday (yet another story). [If I'm really cool, I'll come back and hotlink those parentheticals to their stories. If I'm lame, I won't. Time will tell.]
Unfortunately, building a dual-boot laptop is a time-consuming process -- at least, it is if you don't know what you're doing, like me. Every attempt takes about 90 minutes.
So after sleeping 12 hours last night, I find myself sitting here at 2:20 a.m., trying one more time to perform the Ritual of Dual Boot Configuration in the proper manner so as to appease the gods of technology.
I got it right once. One time I booted up and was faced with a choice: did I want to boot Linux, or did I want to boot Windows?
But then I went and tried to "fix" something, and Pflooey, the whole house of cards collapsed.
So now I'm sitting here, watching the latest iteration draw to a close, knowing full well that I'm going to have to initiate One More Install in order to get the whole thing working. And if that one doesn't work, One More after That.
So I'll wrap this up, start One More Install going, and then head up to bed.
Promise!
Posted by Albatross at April 1, 2004 2:15 AM