Hey looky, somebody set up an iPods Around The World photo gallery.  I know, I’m such a geekaloid.

I’m wiping the drive on my PC, just for fun.  I’d set it up a year ago with all these idiotic partitions that I want to get rid of now.  When XP first came out, I was booting between that and Win98 on a regular basis.  So I had one partition for Win98; another for XP system files and programs; another for programs that would run on both sides; and a fourth partiton that I used for MP3s, which I had shared on my home network so I could get to ‘em from my laptop.  Anyway I decided I don’t need the extra partitions so much, since I’m not booting between 98 and XP anymore.  At first I was afraid XP was going to turn out like Windows ME, which was the biggest piece of crapware ever made.  I spit upon its grave.  But XP is really pretty stable, at least good enough that I’d never want to use 98 again, for sure.  So I’m now free to let the whole drive be hogged by XP.

Well… I’m thinking I might make one teeny tiny little extra partition so I can maybe install Linux again, with the new KDE3 window manager.  Mandrake maybe.  It’s bound to be a lot slicker than it was way back when, with KDE 1-point-something bundled.  I still have a lot of my old Linux software, I bet a lot of it still works.  I mean if I can’t have my new dream machine (the 17" iMac) at least I can use Linux, that might be the closest thing.  I do love my PC and it’d be nice to get a non-M$ operating system on there, I bet I’d use it more.  It’s sort of turned into "John’s computer" since I got the iBook.

I have to go into mad-scientist mode on the 8-track tomorrow (I mean today!) as soon as I’ve had my coffee and woken up.  Have to finish futzing with the Sigmatropic vocals and port out the tracks to CD to send to the guy.  I’ve been a bad girl.  An asshole really, for taking so long.  You know what my problem is?  Over the past few years I’ve started thinking of music as "work".  You see, down in my heart I’m very very lazy and work is something to be avoided at all costs!!  Or rather, I’m in my own little universe and whatever I’m "working" on might have nothing to do with whatever I’m supposed to be doing.  But that’s been true my whole life.  It says so right on my 1st grade report card… something along the lines of "Edith likes to get involved in her own creative projects, and gets frustrated when she’s pulled away to join in class activities." Anyway, after THIS project is finished, I have my own work to work on too.  I really need to buckle down on the music. Make a habit of sitting down and turning on that 8-track.  iMacs don’t grow on trees you know.

My little sister Lucie says she’s reading my blog finally.  She’s a lawyer in San Antonio, and she’s the best.  I have two equally stellar half-siblings as well; another (even littler) sister Lilly, and a little brother John, they’re in college down Texas way.  I kinda doubt that they’d be reading my blog though.  We’re one big happy disjointed family.  Not enough togetherness due to geography etc., but at least we all get along fine, no huge dramas!  You don’t know what a blessing that is, or maybe you do.