Jul

31

ubuntu our new laptop OS

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I’ve always hated paying Microsoft $100 to upgrade to their new OS.  I’ve been paying for upgrades since the early DOS days.  Now there’s a FREE alternative and we’ve taken it, so far so good.  I only needed an OS so that we can surf the web and send email on an 8 year old laptop and ubuntu was thew solution.  It was the easiest install I’ve ever had not like Windows where you have to answer questions for hours and you still have to tweak it so your there behind the computer for hours. 

We actually installed xubuntu since our laptop was an older machine and resourses were slim.  xubuntu is so easy even Becky learned how to use what she needed quickly.  The best part is that it’s FREE and works Great…  Yes, it’s linux and it’s simple, stable and we love it.  If you have an old PC and wat to just surf the web try this.  Your web browser is Mozilla FireFox and your email program is Mozilla Thunderbird.  Both were easy to set up and run.  Long live Linux.

Jul

9

21 months and counting

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shows_twentyone_mainpromo.jpgWell it’s 21 months and counting since our LID (Log In Date) of 10/09/06. The last referral group waited for 29 months or 896 days from LID to referral. Yes, it sounds like it is so close but in reality at the current rate its close but yet sooooooooo far away.  I could walk to China and still be waiting for our referral, and I walk slow.  At this rate it will be April 2011 when we get our referral.  I may post my super duper spread sheet so that you can see the Horror of the reality I see and get depresed with me.  Do you realize that if this adoption went as fast as Morgans we would have had Isabelle for over a year now.

Waiting still SUCKS!!!

 Pete’s Chart of Depression (or Doom)(or Gloom)

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Yes, usually charts like this mean good things, something is growing.  Unfortunatly this chart means that our wait time is growing and growing and growing.  Take two rulers and line each of them up with one of the lines on the chart.  They intersect off the computer screen and I’m talking about a widescreen monitor, how sad.  One of the things that this Chart is also telling us is that the age diffrence between our two girls is growing.  Morgan will be in College and Isabelle will be starting Kindergarden.  Ok I may be exagerating but they won’t be in the same school together.