Virtualocity, Parties, Schedules and Schtuff.

[swestrup]

Well, I finally got things set up well enough (at least for now) on my Debian box that I've gone ahead and turned on VirtualBox and am now installing Windows XP. Or rather, I've already installed it, and am now downloading the ten million updates it will take to get it up to speed. So far things have gone quite well. There was a false start where I couldn't boot my windows SP 2.5 slipstream which was resolved by me discovering it was really a movie DVD that had been put in the wrong jewel box.

Then I discovered that the slipstream would crash while settting up windows. I suspect its because the slipstream is patched to support the AHCI drives I have on this machine, which aren't present in the virtualiztized box. In any case, my original windows disk installed fine, performance seems to be excellant so far (although on an empty box it should be) and I'm now downloading and installing all the updates so that I can take a snapshot for a reference version.

Meanwhile, of course, we're supposed to be having our (delayed) solstice party, but no one has shown up yet and I have (mirabile dictu) finished all my cleaning and decorating chores before any of the guests have arrived. They should start showing up any minute now though, so I don't know how much more fiddling I'll get done tonight.

Tomorrow we're heading out to my folks place (weather permitting) and staying until the morning of boxing day. We should get back by afternoon and (again, should all work according to plan) we'll get together with azrhey and pphaneuf as we've not really managed to have any time together since I got back from California.

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[azrhey.livejournal.com]

I am sooo confused ( tired, lack fo sleep, too much work, xmas meal preparation and what not...gah I wanna be next year! ) ...

We are meeting on boxing day? I might have forgotten as guh..my brain is ozzing out of both ears. I dont see anything on none of our calendars...so I am really confoosed now....

I can probably pencil you in on boxy day afternoon...but low key stuff at my place or a nearby pub ( been meaning to take you to the burgundy Lion which is on Notre-Dame two blocks east of atwater ). or something....

let me know if we had something planeed and I forgot, ok?

[swestrup]

Yeah, we talked a few days ago and you said you'd pencil us in for getting together on the afternoon or evening of Boxing day. We didn't make any more specific plans than that. You even said you'd make a calendar entry right away, although it does appear that you didn't...