Last Friday morning, I was a bit depressed that summer was nearly over. Daylight Saving is finishing on March 25, the daylight hours are getting fewer, the Joondalup Sunset Markets are finishing on the 23rd, and the Joondalup Festival (always held at the end of summer) is coming up very soon.
I’m mostly cheerful now again, but it occurred to me that Australians do miss summer.
There are four things I wanted to do before summer ends:
1. Go for a swim at the beach (accomplished this afternoon)
2. Sit outside with a cup of coffee and read (bought a Linux magazine today, so I’ll do that tonight)
3. Go for a bike ride one morning to a cafe (I’ll try and do that this Sunday if possible)
4. Go to the Joondalup Festival (I’ll do that the Sunday after).
Once we get into winter, I’m going to start a new programme of personal events, which will ensure that I do as many nice things in winter as I would do in summer.
I recently came into money - I was finally paid for a video digitising job I did last year. I must admit, I splurged - I bought the latest Linux Format magazine, a birthday present for my boss (Beegees Live DVD), and the Unreal Anthology (all four games on DVD; Tux is sitting on the back cover and I’ve heard that some of the games are Linux-native).
Unreal Anthology was something I’ve wanted to get for a while, along with the Quake collection. Recently I’ve been getting into Nexuiz, although it runs like a dog on my hardware. To get it running better, I tried running it without X (doesn’t work at all) and without a window manager (graphical problems and is much slower). I’m sure Unreal Tournament, the original, will run well on this computer as it is playable on my iMac with OS 9! If I’m lucky, maybe UT 2004 will also run well.
Final thing: I’m currently compiling the Metisse window manager on Ubuntu. Fingers crossed! I can’t enable all the features unfortunately, as I’m missing some suggested dependencies and Ubuntu’s repositories are down.
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