Welp, I've got a few things to post about.  Sorry that I haven't in a while; I keep meaning to, but I get busy.

So the first thing is that the laptop I use to access the net at my in-laws is no longer using WinXP.  I kept getting reminders that the copy was not genuine and I had this Xubuntu live cd sitting around so I decided to put a partition up for Linux alone; however, this completely ruined the NTFS XP partition, so I just installed Linux.  I've left Xubuntu's native Xfce window manager and gone to Gnome, which I've always had an affinity for.  So far it's pretty nice.

The only problem is that one of the central reasons I get on the internet at all is to get new podcasts and put them on my iPod.  This, in Linux, seems to be one of those "try again in a year, and everything will be smoothed out."  So far, I've lost all my previous podcasts, lost all my music save for 256 songs (everything, oddly enough, that had no album in the id3 tag), and now I'm using GTKpod instead of Amarok to do things.  Maybe it will work this time.

Still though, Linux has been a particularly benign experience.  I recommend it to anyone who has to choose between buying a new OS and downloading it for free.  Unless you don't have a net connection:  Linux would be almost crippled without it, with all the things you have to install.  Still, those installations go quite smoothly with the installation manager Synaptic that comes standard in Ubuntu distributions.

In more normal, less geeky news, I've finally gotten to the point where I love Siouxsie and the Banshees.  See, I knew that I should like them once Nathanael introduced me to them, given my musical tastes, but it didn't really click, except for a few songs.  The other day, that click happened, and it was quite great.  I think it was during "Exterminating Angel," which might actually be a Creatures song, not Banshees.  But it's still Siouxsie Sioux singing out her siren's voice.

In the past week, I've seen Cars and The Lake House, which were respectively good-but-not-quite-The Incredibles and very-nice-and-didn't-suck-in-the-various-times-I-was-afraid-it-might.  I recommend both.

I've been really bored at work, then, with no new podcasts--especially Filmspotting, which I advise you all to subscribe to--things have been especially boring, so I've taken to writing long, rambling treatises on my projectionist schedules.  And today is my last day of work this week, because tomorrow Leah and I are going to Atlanta for a much needed vacation slash visit to her grandparents on their fiftieth anniversary.  We're going to Six Flags and maybe some museums.  I'm missing the weekend rush at the movies because you know what?  Nothing worth seeing is coming out this weekend: Click and Waist Deep.  Here's to next weekend, and Superman Returns.  What, you don't wanna see it?  Have you seen the latest trailer?  The eye-bullet one?  YOU HAVE TO SEE IT!