Christmas good and bad…
Good: Gift certificate to Fry’s that I used to buy a DVD burner that I’ve wanted for a long time. I wanted it to do backups and such.
Bad: Get it home, install it, and make a backup of my Windows partition that I never use. I was booted into Windows to upgrade the firmware on the drive so I figured I’d do the backup.
Next I boot back into Linux and go to do a backup of that partition. Hmmm. Why can’t I read those files in my home dir? They don’t show up in an ‘ls’ and I can’t ‘rm’ them either. Weird. Reboot for grits and shins. Now it can’t mount that drive and wants a fsck. Ok. Try it. fsck fails weirdly.
After running some tests I find that the drive cratered, minutes before I was gonna back it up. Great, just great.
Other toys I got: Games for my Nintendo DS. Some books. My traditional Eeyore sweatshirt( I now have about 8 of them). A bottle of fine bourbon. And more.
As usual, being the only grandson, my son raked it in. Santa brought him some rollerblades. He also got an authentic military helmet and lots of Marine memorabilia(He wants to be a Marine/SEAL when he grows up). He also got a board game(yes, they still make board games) from us called Ticket to Ride. It’s one of the best games I’ve played in a while. It’s simple enough for my 8 year old but deep enough to keep adults interested. He slaughtered his grandfather and me at it the first time we played. If you like board games, I recommend picking it up.
: Guilty as Sin from the album “Wayward Angel” by Kasey Chambers