Jan 30 2007

Today was a day with Mom

Today it seemed like my Mom just really needed some company, so we spent some time together. We went shopping up at the mall. First, we went to get some new towels for the bathrooms and ended up getting 5 sets (towels, washcloths, and hand-towels) for about $75 USD. Second, we went to the bookstore, which is Mom’s all-time favourite place to browse; she could spend hours just perusing the shelves. I ended up getting a neat pocket reference guide for the Linux shell and she walked out with a huge bag of new books. The best part is that she STILL has a bunch left on her giftcards!

Last, we went to get something quick to eat at this small Japanese place. It wasn’t the best food in the world, but for less than $5 USD per person, you just couldn’t beat it! There was so much food that we both had a bunch to bring home for Dad to eat.

Since then, she’s been reading, and I’ve been playing around with the new version of Gentoo & doing homework. All-in-all, not too bad of a day. 🙂

|:| Zach |:|

Jan 26 2007

New installation of Gentoo

After hours of researching and examining new Linux distros, I decided to go with an updated version of Gentoo (2006.1). I’m installing it firstly on my test machine (Green), and then possibly on Blue if I like it. The only thing that I noticed that was somewhat interesting about this particular distro is that it differentiates significantly between x86 (i686) and amd64 installations. I know that all distros will have separate installer modules for those architectures, but this one seems to have large differences.

Anyway, I hope to play around with it for a little bit this evening and then more later on this weekend. I’ll post about my feelings on the new OS when I’ve had enough time to mess around with it for a bit.

|:| Zach |:|

Jan 24 2007

Already tired of it…

You were thinking I was going to say that I’m already tired of school, weren’t you? Well, that may also be true, but I was referencing my new eating schedule. I decided that I really need to lose some weight and inches off of the ol’ waistline, so I started regulating my food intake. I’m not ‘dieting’ per se. Rather, I’m just monitoring what I eat and how often I eat. I’m still planning on eating some of the foods that I really love, but just in smaller proportions.

Today, my schedule consisted of:

11:45 – Low-fat yogurt with fruit and granola
16:30 – Grilled smoked sausage with a baked potato and corn
19:00 – A cinnamon-raisin English muffin
20:00 – 3 lightly salted rice cakes and an orange

While I didn’t think any of those foods were bad, I am still a little bit hungry. I would imagine that as I continue eating less and less that my appetite will decrease somewhat.

|:| Zach |:|