So after spending three days getting windows to work properly on my new vaio s360 and countless hours searching online and waiting on hold for the windows driver, I decided it was time to brave linux. As I had previously had a great deal of drama getting linux to work on the m60, I was quite nervous.

Well, get this, it took about 20 minutes, and was totally automated, looks beuatiful, wireless works, bluetooth works, graphics card work at native 1280 x 800 resolution. It seems almost unreal. I am so excited to get started with it right after I set up my old laptop for (e:matthew) .

Thanks so much (e:ajay) for the disk. Best of all linux is free. If anyone else wants to switch I totally suggest suse 9.2, it is easy as can be.

Hodown is in town and her face is really messed up in the name of cosmetic beauty. I tried to get a pic but she wouldn't let me.

Dinner was especially delicious tonight. WE has steamed muscles in white wine sauce, peppers stuffed with gorgonzola, bacon wrapped scallops, and gourmet salad with cranberries. Yum

I miss lisa, it is so weird with her being gone

I am so dissapointed in the Buffalo Niagara airport. I brought my new laptop here, the one that is finally working and they have a wirless connection but it is pay as you go. The thing is instead of having any sort of realistic micropayment system they require you to pay $6.95 for the entire day. Who pays fro an entire day of service at the aitport. I guess if you are in a desparate situation and really need to check your email but $6.95 is eally steep for people who are mostly only spending an hour here. It should be like $2 per hour, better yet free. I mean, don't airports make enough money charging exorbetant amounts for coffee and drinks. If you were a serious travelrer it would atcually be cheaper to buy a gprs card and connect with that, then paying the $6.95/day that the airport charges.

SPeaking of wireless internet, does anyone know what the situation is with the wireless internet on elmwood. A while back (e:ajay) mentioned it and I remmber some other people talking about it but I haven't heard any confirmatory information. WIll it be pay as you go or simply free. If it is not free, who is going to use it?

I know this sounds like an (e:angryshortkid) inspired journal but does anyone else hate this situation? You have what appears to be a perfectly legimate $1 bill but the tasty machine refuses to accept. You try ironing it, rotating it, kicking the machine. Then you look in your pocket and every other bill is larger than a $1 - but your machine only takes $1 bills and the new "take 5" pretzel chocolate bar is laughing at you at this point. Argh.

I decided to take main street instead of the highway as there is so much new slick snow ? sleet. It is so slow as I have hit every red light on the way to teach some PHP to digital poetics students. I hope they like it.

I met with the chair of my dept today and they are still crossing their fingers on the full-time position. It really is their last year to decide. I feel bad because the department so obviously wants a new faculty member in the program but the school keeps dodging out on the money and I can't live without health insurance forever. It is kind of getting ridiculous now as there are over 150 majors and only 2 full-time faculty members.

If it doesn't work out I will just take one of the other million and a half job offers, but I have my heart set on teaching right now.