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December 26, 2003

I'm Damn Bored

Amanda has gone to her dad's for the weekend. That leaves me here by myself till Sunday. I have cats to keep me company.

How fun.

I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do with myself to keep from boredom. I've debated watching LOTR non-stop all weekend, but before I do that I need to exchange the two DVDs that I got for Christmas and get the extended Two Towers DVD. I've also been debating on purchasing a DVD player for the PC since they've gotten so cheap and copying the DVDs to the computer and editing them together to have one long running movie.

Yes, I'm THAT bored.

The real problem here is that everyone I know here in Louisville is either out of town for Christmas or they have a family to consider ... or both. I'm the only person that I'm aware of that is going to be by him/herself this weekend. I'm sure that I'll be able to make the time, but I just really have a feeling that it's going to be a long weekend.

To give you another example of how bored I am, I'm working on installing Gentoo Linux. In case if you've never heard of it before, it's one of the most difficult Linux distributions to install ... but also one of the most rewarding, or so I hear. My primary machine is currently churning away on the "emerge system" command, and it's been doing it for over an hour already. I'm curious as to how long the total thing will take, as the "emerge system" command isn't the final step. Hopefully in the long run it'll make me a better Linux user.

In addition to installing Gentoo, I'm also debating having another go at the 2.6 kernel. My prior installation attempts have been rather lacking in the success department, but I figure since I really have nothing better planned for the weekend I'd give it another go.

It's really interesting ... as a child I used to get bored VERY easily. I would walk around the house and just get so damn frustrated at absolutely nothing because I was so bored. I found myself doing that exact thing this evening. I walked around the apartment looking for something to do, and there really isn't anything to do. I found myself getting frustrated, so I decided to sit down and write out my frustrations on this blog. I don't think that it's really helped.

One thing that I do have to admit tho, the blog is a great way to let out what you're feeling. I talked with mom earlier and she said that she'd rather have something that was private instead of something that everyone could read. I told her that was kind of the point ... you want people to read your blog. It doesn't matter what you post on it. If you're not comfortable putting up something, you don't have to. I really think that the real job of a blog is to let other people know what's going on in your world ... but you have total control over what they see and hear.

Oh well ... time to go and see how far along Gentoo is.

Posted by ed at December 26, 2003 10:43 PM

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