Apparently it's been a while since I've driven on a proper motorway (the M54 really doesn't count)
Went up to Worcester yesterday, which involves small amounts of the M5. Which, unlike the M50 and M54, has three lanes and therefore a middle lane.
Seriously, why do people sit in the middle lane all the time? It's really stupid and really annoying. But quite fun when the middle lane is full of traffic and doing about 40 and the fast lane is going at 50 and I'm the only car in the slow lane and I'm happily going past everyone at about 55. heh. suckers.
Also, foglights. Stop it!
Drove through the Forest on my way back from Cheltenham today, which was a nice reminder why I don't tend to go through the Forest ever
Still, that bit of road reminds me of scary trips in the minibus to the climbing wall in Gloucester. That must be, ooh, 7 or 8 years ago now...
I've put my decorations up. This is really not a big deal, as I have 6 of them and I only fished them out of their usual hiding place because I was bored. Plus only two of them are even remotely 'christmassy' (a snowman and a reindeer). The rest are, well, rubbish. That thing in the photo is not-so-lovingly referred to as 'festive chicken', for the simple reason that it really isn't.
Of course there is a reason behind me owning these things, which involves well meaning people giving me accessorize vouchers. I hate that shop! Full of overpriced crap, and it's all so horrible and dainty and girly and, quite frankly, Not My Thing. So having had these vouchers for a year or so I figured I may as well get rid of them, and bought some stupid decorations in the sale. (reduced from about a fiver each, hahahaha rip off...)
Still haven't done my cards yet mind - really should do, as apparently there's only a week left. bah humbug!
Well, the good news is that I finall got kubuntu to install! Off the live cd - only difference this time is that I unplugged my usb hub. hmm. But it installed quickly and painlessly and without nuking my /home and /fat partitions, so that's good.
Bad news is that far too many things aren't working. Sound (meh), USB anything (wtf, this isn't win98!) and more annoyingly, internet.
Having a computer with no network connection is actually quite useless, given that 90% of everything I use it for involves the internet. Not even got php/apache/mysql installed yet so it's not like I can play around with stuff offline either. boo
So I've spent the last 3 and a half hours booting and rebooting between linux and windows trying to get my network card to work.
The drivers are there, the config files look fine and I've been through everything about eight times now, but still no network!
It should talk to the router and do DHCP stuff to get an IP etc, but I keep getting an annoying message about there not being any leases. blah. Even when I tried giving it a static IP and all the DNS/gateway details etc it still refused to work. This is particuarly annoying as 'proper' debian never had any problems with my network card. Just with everything else...
Have now completely run out of ideas, and am going to have to resort to the ubuntu support forums I think. eep
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