Are we having fun yet?
May. 1st, 2014 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI delivered my BVC copy-edit yesterday, which was the last of my deadline-dependent urgencies. So first thing this morning was obviously the right time to upgrade my Linux installation to the latest release of Ubuntu.
So I set that cheerfully in motion after the first cup of coffee, and wandered off to read a chapter of a book, and wandered back with fresh coffee just to see how everything was progressing -
- and you know what's coming, don't you?
Dunno if it's their software or my hardware, but the process had hung fatally, ten minutes into the most dangerous too-late-to-back-out-now part of the installation.
So I rebooted, and found everything so broken that none of the auto-repair systems could fix it.
So now I am doing that manually, via a terminal command-line. Which is kinda beyond my pay-grade, y'know? So I wandered through to see m'wife just now, and she smiled and said, "You're having fun, aren't you?"
Which, yeah. I kinda am. If an elevated heart-rate and a craving for more coffee counts as fun...
So I set that cheerfully in motion after the first cup of coffee, and wandered off to read a chapter of a book, and wandered back with fresh coffee just to see how everything was progressing -
- and you know what's coming, don't you?
Dunno if it's their software or my hardware, but the process had hung fatally, ten minutes into the most dangerous too-late-to-back-out-now part of the installation.
So I rebooted, and found everything so broken that none of the auto-repair systems could fix it.
So now I am doing that manually, via a terminal command-line. Which is kinda beyond my pay-grade, y'know? So I wandered through to see m'wife just now, and she smiled and said, "You're having fun, aren't you?"
Which, yeah. I kinda am. If an elevated heart-rate and a craving for more coffee counts as fun...