computer blind

We thought the fresh install of Kubuntu-Hardy worked out fine last night, but alas, they've fixed it just enough to break my computer entirely: there's a bug that makes it try to run the wrong graphics driver for my card, which results in no picture at all, but I was able to get it up and running by restarting it a bunch of times in a row, which somehow (still don't know how) confused it into eventually starting the right drivers by what it would think was an accident.

Well, the new distro still has the wrong-driver bug, but it no longer has the might-use-the-right-driver (which it thinks is the wrong one)-after-you-restart-it-a-lot, er, feature. It can no longer be confused, swayed, or budged from its determination to use the wrong driver. So that means that my computer will turn on now, but it won't display any images, which is essentially the same as if it wouldn't turn on at all. Finland doesn't have the concept of Things That Are Open on Sundays, so we will have to wait for Monday to buy a new graphics card.

It's been an anxiety-filled evening.

I've been using the computer less the last several months as it got more time-consuming to turn it on, but that was always a conscious choice to do something else instead. Knowing I can't turn it on is different and makes me perversely yearn for it. I've spent the last few hours arranging the settings in my account on Wax's computer, but it's not the same - all the saved ones are on my hard drive anyway.

you're the only thing i wouldn't change

I might have mentioned fonts before sometimes. I dig fonts. My last favourite was Sabon, a Garamond-based serif. My new favourite is Optima, an elegant sans serif and the typeface used on the Vietnam Memorial. Now I come to the point of this post: a rec! You can download Cosmetica, an Optima-clone designed for the purest of reasons (to include Greek characters, which it does, but you need hardly use them), for free here in the MgOpen font package along with a few other nice ones (I do quite like Modata as well; it doesn't say what it's based on, so perhaps it's original).

It's a beautiful day, about 20° (or in the low 70s F), and I've been dancing around to the Hush Sound, cooking, drinking in the sunshine and talking with my mother on the phone. She got a new digital camera for the first time since 2000 (I KNOW, right?) and, through no fault of her own, the LCD screen got broken when she had taken only four pictures. I wince dramatically at this because I've been jonesing wistfully after a new camera, and mine is only 2½ years old! Whereas hers actually cannot be unloaded by means of a USB cable o_O. Happy Mother's Day to her and to all you other motherly types out there.

oh yeah: here's a happy little dog

...crawling under the boardwalk along the river to get at what I hope is no more disgusting than an empty potato chip package.