mindful iterations

This evening was spent installing the dependencies I needed to get the awn-extras running on my system.  Avant Window Navigator is a really nice dockbar.  Sometimes it's nice to zone out on things that have absolutely no consequence.

Aside from that, most of the day was spent catching up with folks, cleaning the house, and sitting around in my pajamas.  It's been a wonderfully relaxing weekend which doesn't get to happen very often, really.  Usually I'm so busy running around and studying that I don't usually get to really relax and come down from my work week.

While I did do some studying and 'geeking-out', I did manage to have a nicely balanced weekend of responsibility and laziness.  Ah, balance - I love it.

In any case, in addition to running awn, I'm also running compiz, which is a requirement for running the dockbar.  I, of course, like the squiggly windows that come along with compiz, but it seems to really slow things down on my system.  I've got a decent enough graphics card - an 256MB nVidia.  I've got a GB of RAM in my system.  While that's not huge in today's standards, it's definitely not the piece of shit.  I'll probably ride the composite wave for a little while, maybe a few weeks, and then end up back to my standard Gnome desktop.   I'm not known for my patience.

Anyway, enough of this - I'm off to read some more of the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A friend gave me the book to read and I've just passed the part about the improbability drive.

And with that, I'm off.