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Man I just had the strangest dream, dreamt that our webhost was trying to sell all our files on the black market, disguised as a fat woman. And then me and Wiz went down to collect the disks. What a ludicrous dream lol, like that scene from Good Fellas meets Big Mommas House :

Finally…. I got some sleep.

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Skipped the computer totally, set the TV to something good (Aliens hehe), and succeeded in mission plan…. be snoring before 0100R. Woke up around 0900, then went back to bed until 1300 since it was a day off work hahahaha.

Now I feel like running a marathon…

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Sleep, rest, peace… do I even know the meaning of these words anymore?

falling down tired

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2009-02-10 T07:17:20 UTC

Oh man, so freaking tired. I think I fell asleep like ten minutes into the presidents talk, woke up sometime later and drifted off to bed. Was to tired to get on the computer, was nothing on TV; so I put on my favorite western, El Dorado. Been drifting in and out of consciousness, seeing most of the movie and dreaming of hacking on old computers the rest of the time (lol). Finally got up about half way into the movie.

I’m still to dang tired to do much of anything, just writing this off battery power atm. I’d really like to work through some of my readinf, but I’m to fscking tired to retain it. Been to exhausted most of the day to focus on anything more complex then regular expressions, and even then to far gone to get that right (oy). After El Dorado is over, I ought to go to sleep, but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to go to sleep after all this dozing.

Really, what would be good, is to curl up with a nice novel… only problem, I’ve read most of my collection of fiction, 2 or 3 times each; my memory is also pretty good. I think I’ll see if there is any milk and cereal left, havce a quick gnosh and try and lay down. I’m really happy that I don’t have to be at work tomorrow, until about 1200 – but likewise wish I could just sleep. I really need a good nights sleep, but I never seem to get it.

I’m so darn tired.

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Been a long night

Whilist updating my laptops software, I finally finished and found a number of irksome errors about gdkpixbuf and loading XPMs. Couldn’t turn up any useful information, so I asked around in #gnome; ended up recompiling gtk20 against the installed libraries. All in all, portupgrade is nice FWIW, but really it’s not one of my favorites. I usually get my best results doing things by hand, maybe I should give portmaster a go. Since I also had to recompile Pidgin to fix it, I decided on a whim to try compiling GFire (which I have not tried in a _long_ time). Much to my surprise and enjoyment, it went well — now I can connect to XFire off my laptop. Much nicer then redirecting people to use my other IM-details, lol. Also started work on a FreeBSD port for it, mostly just an issue of figuring out the PLIST files and testing out the port files.

Compiling things from source is the only assurable way of getting good results when updating software, a lot of people (that wouldn’t know a library from a linker) don’t get it; for the rest of us, it’s called think before you smash. With my modest hardware, I usually use pre-compiled binary packages whenever possible, but they are not always suitable. One of the things I like about source-based Operating Systems — you can actually fix shit when it blows up.

Oh crap, GDM, GKrellm, GVim, Emacs, and Pidgin are not working well after upgrade. Recompile the offending thing(s) that popped their cork…. and it magically works perfectly >_>. No horrors, no fighting, just flick the switch and take nap lol.