Well... On Thursday-last, I reinstalled my computer, using gdmusumeci's developer copy of OSX 10.5 (Leopard). Unfortunately, the downsides of using a beta OS became immediately obvious.

While it's pretty much stable (only one weird crash so far), it has an annoying bug, which is that it intermittently loses its ability to find our wireless network (or anyone else's, for that matter) every 45 minutes or so for 2 - 6 hours at a time.

As my internet usage is now apparently limited to a couple of hours a day, I probably won't be around on AIM or any other real-time communications networks for a while, until this gets fixed. (Leopard is due for release this week some time, so hopefully I'll get a slew of updates then and one of them will fix this, otherwise I may revert to 10.4/Tiger.) If you'd like to talk to me, please send me email or snail mail, which I faithfully promise to answer (although I promise no timeliness in doing so).

Please also note that I've apparently broken my mail program, since it no longer remembers how to talk to either of my outgoing mail servers, so it may be a while before you get replies to email. Snail mail or phone are probably the best ways to reach me -- I've got something like 1700 rollover minutes on my cell, so don't worry about calling me.

Hope you're all having fun out here in LJ-land.

There were at least two people this morning complaining about how badly it sucked, so I figured I'd come over and give it a try.

Unfortunately, I have nothing to talk about besides my perpetually runny nose (Benadryl, no love; Sudafed, no love; steroidal nose spray, no love -- next step, nasal irrigation!) and my deep and abiding love for my 10K lumen "don't get depressed when the sun goes away" light.

As far as I can tell, all they've done is clean up the way the buttons and dropdowns look, and move a couple of options up to the top from the bottom, which will hopefully keep people from posting in the wrong community or journal quite so much.

Eh, I don't care one way or the other, and the people who hate it can always download a client.

So apparently LJ doesn't like it when I post things that are totally self-pitying and basically a waste of anyone's reading time. Interesting way to keep up my self-esteem, I guess...
Hopefully this week will be better than last. Koyote's going to come down and hang out for a bit, and GP is supposed to be printing out a copy of my resume for me at his office, since I don't have a reliable printer here. (I have my printer from school, but it's so flaky that I haven't been using it even there, and I'm not sure the ink still works.)
Tomorrow I'm going to go down the hill, knees and all, and try to find an office for Kelly or Manpower or both and see if I can get them to line me up with a couple of temp jobs. So I can start earning some money and paying GP back what I owe him and my credit card bills and all of the other things I owe people. Then maybe after that I'll start making a dent in the list of "things I need."
I mean, it hasn't been all bad being here... I really liked driving across the country, and playing house is kind of fun. But I *need* something to do with my time -- sitting on my ass all day is just making me depressed and cranky. Ah, well, at least it can't get worse, because there's really nothing that could go wrong -- at the very worst, nothing changes and I sit on my ass all summer and watch the holes in my jeans grow.

LJ toasted my last entry, so I wanted to make sure I could still post...