Life

The weekend was rather quiet. Had some drinks with the Axis of AEvil, her husband and her dog on Friday. Was a very nice evening, and Honeybear (the dog) didn't even eat me. Honeybear is really funny, he looks at pizza with puppy eyes and chews people's backpacks a little.

Spent the rest of the weekend at home trying to arrange my photos (mostly successfully in the case of the digital photos; I still have some paper ones that need to be put in albums; paper photos are a pain in the ass), reading and trying to learn a bit of Hebrew and a bit of Swedish. German was scheduled too but I never got around to it.

I am having an attack of some arranging mania. Yesterday bought a big box for various small objects in Lidl. Gotta hunt down the small objects lying around the house someday soon and stick them all in the box. Tried to install some video cataloguing software but it wanted libxml-parser-perl or something like that; tried to see if it can be found in my distribution but YaST2 malfunctioned badly. After that started thinking whether to update the system, got lost in thinking and never got to installing anything.

The update would be SuSE 9.1 professional, and as usual there is the dilemma of whether to buy an update on DVD from a store like a decent person or to download it from the net like a geek with more time than money, and have to fix xine and mplayer later (the last time the net download had broken versions of both).

Also need to catalogue all books and DVDs and VCDs and maybe CDs that I own, and mark them as mine. If somebody knows a place where I can have stick-on labels with my name and email address printed cheaply, let me know.

Pia came on Sunday with her laptop that got a virus, imagining that I know what to do about it. I know fuck all about anything having to do with Windows, and my response to questions having to do with Windows problems usually is "get SuSE or Debian", which works surprisingly often. Pia can't do that since her school requires Microsoft Word, including some of the functionality that cannot be easily simulated by using OpenOffice. Stupid school, I say. Anyway, I installed her some trial software from F-Secure webpage, and it found and ate the virus, but that's only for a month, and what then? (Yeah, the obvious response would be for her to buy the software.) I wonder how the whole thing happened in the first place. Doesn't Windows come with a firewall and a virus scanner of its own?

Yesterday had some hot chocolate and saw a movie with Sini, Aapo and Odessa. The movie was called But I am a Cheerleader and is about a girl who is put by her parents into a gay-to-straight re-education camp. Won't write any spoilers here, but you can imagine that putting a bunch of gays and/or lesbians together in a camp is not very likely to teach them to become straight. The movie's plot had a great porn potential but unfortunately it wasn't a porno movie. Was funny, though.

Next weekend is Ropecon, and everybody is going to be there, except me. I think I'll use the time to improve my whatever-language, take some photos, hang out with the few friends who do not participate in Ropecon and/or maybe go to Tallinn and buy some sour cherries. Killeri is very busy with Ropecon, no chance of getting laid this weekend at all.