Last night Steph threw up all the way home from work. She walked in the door and was weak and pale and quite sick. The Bub and I went out after sending Momma to a hot bath. When we came back she was in bed. EJ had a little snack from Momma and then fell asleep. We were all in our places, Steph in bed, EJ in her crib and me at the computer. I was just about to really start beating myself up for being awake still at 2:30 WHEN OUT OF THE CRIB CAME A TERRIBLE SOUND.

EL Squeako was throwing up in her sleep. She woke up rather quickly and then was just as unhappy as her mother had been several hours earlier.

Today the girls spent all day in bed. In the evening I figured out that the virus was spreading to our Lil Bug through the breast milk, so Steph witnessed formula feeding of her child for the first time.

Our Doctor says that there was a terrible bout of stomach flu going around, in fact she had cancelled all of her appointments for today as she was at home suffering too. So for now, it has not caught up to me, and I hope it doesn’t cause it looks just as fun as food poisoning.

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After a boldly stupid move on my part, I have reverted my Powerbook back to it’s original operating system. Hello OS X. If only I could have been happy with the Stable branch of Linux, I might still be using it. However, I wanted to have the newest version of Amarok because it was skipping when it played so I tried jumping over to the development trunk and then nothing at all worked. I had to get my school work done on something so I popped the OS X disc that came with the newest addition to the house (Mac Mini) and booted up a Tiger. Soon, I’ll be able to get things aligned where I can reinsert myself into the land of Linux.

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I had the initial visit at the gym this morning. The Trainer measured the fat on my arms (very little) and on my waist ( still not much) and my heart condition (not bad.) Then because I was there, I got on a treadmill for a little bit. My mind got all crazy and bounced around and I found it hard to let go. Then I rode the exercise bike for like five seconds, and I was about to leave but I thought, I’ll do some arm and chest machines for half an hour and then go to the Yoga class downstairs.

The Yoga class is one of the things that I really wanted to take regularly, that was until I took it. I am a very tight person. My muscles are tight, my mind is tight and my heart is very tight so going into this class was very hard for me to deal with. There were a couple of moments where I whited out and eventually I broke. I was prepared to leave, but the instructor was very gentle and got me to stay, saying that the hard stuff was nearly over. I was in the child’s pose crying while everybody else was all beautiful in their standing poses.

The floor poses were easier and I am glad I stayed. Afterwards the instructor complemented me for staying and thanked me for the work I did. Don’t let anyone fool you , it was work. I had to decide to accept myself for who I was right at that moment and that’s the hardest thing I’ve done all day long.

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This morning, Stephanie told me about a conversation we had when I was asleep, it went like this.

ME:

Do you know who is in the footswing?

STEPH:

Huh? No, who?

ME:

God is in the footswing.

STEPH:

Oh ok, that’s good.

When she told me the last thing I said, it sounded like my Grand Daddy, which is quite an accomplishment as she is Australian and he was from Eastern North Carolina. We talked about it all day and have decided that he was visiting me in our new home. So all day when people said, “It’s nice to see you,” I said, “It’s nice to be seen.”

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Well, I crashed another OIS last night and with my recent purchase of the Mac Mini I got a DVD of OS X Tiger. So, I was up until dawn installing onto my Ti Powerbook the Apple OS. Well, at least for now, I am back on the standard operating mode and no longer running the experimental linux. It was not that Linux is problematic, it is certainly a fine Operating System, in fact I really do miss it already. There are many great things about it, like vast amounts of configurability or the features that were included in the applications were very slick. The problem is the guy who was using the computer. He wanted more on the edge of sanity development versions when what is necessary is stability. There is a very stable branch of linux that is quite attractive and fun. I wanted to get on the development version and play with that too bad I crashed again.

I am just going to have to learn more code and more techniques before the next go around. I am trying to get involved in learning more about the administration of systems as well as package development, and Linux is an extremely beneficial place to do that, so once we get more settled in here, get the DSL hooked up, I am going to get myself back into the Linux realm, until then, I’ve got a couple of nice Apples that are happy to talk to each other.

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