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Its hard to believe the new year is already here. Seems like just yesterday I was out in the woods taking pictures of the spring buds. New Years is a stay at home affair here, better to stay out of the way of the armatures. Manicotti, bread and salad is a good enough reason to stay home and better than any restaurant fair.

So at 4pm I’m in the kitchen stuffing shells with artillery thundering from We Were Soldiers playing in the other room and notice squiggly lines in my computer monitors. Crash… rather an unusual occurrence for my systems but it is a new system so maybe its an overheat or driver that brought the system down. Wrong, hard drive failure (a Maxtor 30g I’ve had for almost 2 years and finally decided to use). Almost a full week of my vacation went into loading Mandriva 2006 64bit and Fedora Core 4 64bit on that drive and getting everything setup, including the dual monitor NVidia drivers. Shucks… But I can’t complain much since I’ve not lost a drive in a personal system since 2001. Fortunately I had nothing else on the failed drive.

But aside from that New Years was the Missus’s opportunity to get even. She worked until 5pm so I plan dinner at 6pm. That’s 30 minutes to close the store and 30 minutes drive time and a few minutes to get it on the table as she walks in.

As the oven timer goes off (indicating time to put in the bread) at 5:50pm there is the call “I’m just leaving work…” which is 30 minutes away. I cannot begin to tell you how many cliche’s ran through my head as I laughed.

But it all worked out and the Manicotti was only a wee bit over done but that was as much because we like our bread a bit crispy. The left overs made for good lunch today as well.

Now back to working on configuring my freshly reloaded system. Again….

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