Cat Stevens @ MindSay

Will I even find me a boat or so?
And if I make it to the waterside,
I'll be sure to write you note or something...

There many things that one learns through the course of one's lifetime, and so many of these things can only be learned through trial and error, which brings me to today's lesson learned - it is far more convenient to use my Palmtop than my laptop when it is time for the morning constitutional. Maybe this has to do with fact that I am more accustomed to typing with my palmtop in strange locations and the fact that I can type while the device is suspended in the air, whereas with the laptop, I must be able to place the device down upon a solid surface so that I can type...

There are other factors that have lead me to this conclusion - factors such as the size of the devices, the amount of time from turning them on until I can actually do some work, and so on...

Though the laptop does have one advantage, and that is I can surf the Web whilst I remove all waste materials from my system...

So for writing I will use my palmtop and for surfing I will use the laptop...

And such is the lesson learned upon this day...

This is the Word of the AntiCrust...

Praise be ye who Read the Word for ye are Blessed amongst humans...

Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow,
But your dreams may not...

And so I have entered the Land of Sit and Wait yet again for this is what this life consists of - sitting and waiting for that which will happen will happen though one must wait for it to happen even if that which you must wait for is not pleasant and the wait happens to be extremely long and prolonged for the time is others is set to a different standard than one's own personal time. And such is the world I know and all it encompasses...

And I shall wait for I have nothing else to do other than wait and so I shall for it is in the stars and all that is contained therein. And such is the world and all that I know and all that is in the heavens and all that is known and unknown And such as it is, as it was, and as it will be until the universe is a black nothingness of emptiness, a wasteland that stretches to infinite, a clean on which the next universe will be written...

And I have all the time in the world with which I can tell my tale for all to see. Time is not nor has it ever been a driving force in my life. I was not born a clock watcher, I was not placed here to have the minutes control how I live my life, I will not be a slave to the hour hands. This is the way it is for I can accept no other existence...

And time - how does one use words to describe the concept to some who has no concept of it? Yes, I do understand what the definition of time is, I know what it means from a scientific standpoint, but how would I even attempt to tell the others what it is? As I sit here I know that time is passing and yet how what I explain what it means? How could words tell my tale?

And this is where I find myself at the moment (a time-type concept), sitting here lacking the words to say all that needs to be said. And I know I often find my self wondering about concepts that I cannot express in the written form though I can use plenty to express the fact that my knowledge is lacking in such things. If I could only impart the thoughts that are within my head into the heads of those who may happen upon this obscure Blog and read this one particular entry amongst the multitude. If only I could... If only...

And the time has come for me to end this entry and rejoice in the fact that I have once again succeed in using a great many words to say absolutely nothing, and I will wonder if this is the reason why I found this place and the people I have met, and I will wonder upon all things and nothing for in nothingness there is all...

This is the Word of the AntiCrust...

Praise be ye who Read the Word for ye are Blessed amongst humans...

And they all open from the side you're on
Just keep on pushing hard, boy, try as you may
You're going to wind up where you started from
You're going to wind up where you started from...

And so I shall write the great tales of woe for tragedy is the way of this life and such as it is and so shall it be. Well, not really, but rather that is the sentence that popped into my brain as I sat down to write all that needs written on this day in the Year of our Lord Two-thousand and Eight...

Actually I am taking a break from getting my WiFi card working and if I was not such a masochist when it comes to such things I would have given up on this project by now, but being I am taking a break from writing a grand story with my writing partner (hopefully to be partners) I felt the need to occupy my time with something I had been thinking of doing for some time now. I may have been defeated in this battle, but I will win the war even if the outcome will not be what I had planned and this is a consequence of victory that I shall not deny myself. So here I am more tired than I have been in quite some time, but I am also somewhat pleased in the fact that I have arrived at a decision in regards to what I will do with my laptop...

Other than the war I have waged upon my laptop, the rest of the day was rather nice being that this area is finally back to its normal range of temperatures, and there was even a great deal of sunshine to found in the great out of doors. It feels as if it may be approaching summertime at last. Global warming in these here parts is a strange and mysterious thing filled with many cool days and much rain and occasional outbreaks of frost...

And such are the days that I must type about so I can do nothing but. And I shall look forward to more of the same in the near future being that no one at the moment is beating upon my door to hire me so I shall do what I must and soldier on...

I here I am wondering if my life is on the dull and boring side of the street. I wish I could write about all he adventures I had and all the sights, sound, smells of the new experiences I have had this day, but I find that I have absolutely nothing to say about this day. Yes, I left the house and had some errands to run, but there is no point during this journey that stands out, provides a bright shining beacon through the fog of this day - I went through the day and I survived and there was not much else except for the fact that I wondered in what language "Chevrolet" means hurry to pull out in front of someone then drive at least five mile per hour under the speed limit. And yes indeed, I did think of this for it happened on a few occasions during the course of my meandering across the countryside...

So I shall return to my quest to run my laptop in a way in which I intended and marvel at the fact that my monitor looks far better now than it does when I am running Windows, but Windows will at least run my WiFi card, which is as strange as the fact that this distro of Linux will recognize my external hard drive while Windows will not even acknowledge its existence. And I really should stop complaining about nothing for there are many who would great enjoy my laptop no matter what its issues are and anyhoo, it's really not much different from my Palmtop where I have to take the memory card out of it to transfer files to the ÜberPuter. So I shall shut up about stuff and do stuff...

Strange and wondrous are the mysterious of this life and I would have it no other way...

This is the Word of the AntiCrust...

Praise be ye who Read the Word for ye are Blessed amongst humans...

Everybody's here with me
I don't need to touch your face lo know,
And I don't need to use my eyes to see...

WARNING! This product may contain geek content!!!

And so it is that I am sitting here typing away the hours deep into the deepest darkest of nights whilst the world around me sleeps...

This is not quite true for I have been trying for many hours to network my laptop using Linux as its OS. This is proving to an impossibility of a grand magnitude, not that I'm totally ignorant to the ways of the Penguin, but rather my knowledge base is not large enough to get my WiFi card to work under any of the distros I've tried and I lack the time necessary to spend on this quest so I will just have to call it quits and either be satisfied with working with Linux and transferring it to my UberPuter or breaking down and spending money I am currently lacking to buy a WiFi card that has dedicated Linux drivers. And such is my computer life at the moment where I am current typing this with KWrite so that I can transfer it via my ZipDrive to my UberPuter while I wish that I could just simply upload it to the Internet. hhhhmmm, a mental note to my self: check the old boxes I have to see if any have a network card in them for I have at least four old systems in my basement and one just might have a card in it, maybe, hopefully...

It just frustrates me to no end to not be able to accomplish what I want to do especially because I find myself so close where I can detect the card, but I cannot get to drivers to power it up and run it. Alas, Edison would cry for the lights do not illuminate the world...

"Yes, I know," I say unto the geeks who read this, "Yes, I am old-school when it come to typing the stories that must be told for I type them all in Text formats with all the necessary codes I need to place them upon the walls of CyberSpace, but I have typed thusly since I used AppleWorks 2.0 so many years ago pre-Internet. So you may mock me in my ancientness for many never experienced the joys of an Apple (a non-Macintosh) and I have because my first computer was an Apple IIe, which faded from the pages of history long before you were born..."

Funny how it was so long ago when I cursed the name of Apple when they abandoned me and my OS. It is strange to think that I have lived so long in the Computer World. O the marvels of technology! O the joys of monochrome monitors! O the wonders of 5 1/4" floppies that were actually floppy! But I never went to a Mac and at this point I never will for IBM-compatible (hehehehe, I haven't used that term in eons) are far too common and the parts are far too plentiful for someone such as myself who enjoys taking things apart and rearranging them even this laptop that was bought used in '02 has had plenty of tinkering done to it and it still functions though I currently have the WiFi issue, but if I boot to Windows 98 I can do on-line things...

And ssshhhhhhhhh, don't tell anyone that I'm a closet geek - it'll be our little secret, K?

Well, I do believe that I have exceeded my brain capacity for today and I shall go to bed so that I can get a good night sleep and then transfer this to my UberPuter and you get the picture. And then I will place this upon the Internet using a machine that knows how to do WiFi though I could just reboot to Windows and go that route. Alas, far too many options to contemplate at this hour so I will just say, "Night y'all, I'll see ya when I see ya..."

This is the Word of the AntiCrust...

Praise be ye who Read the Word for ye are Blessed amongst humans...

Now I've been happy lately
Thinkin' 'bout the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun
Oh, I've been smiling lately
Dreamin' 'bout the world as one
And I believe it could be
Someday it's going to come
'Cause out on the edge of darkness
There rides a peace train
Oh, peace train take this country
Come take me home again
Oh, peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on now peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller
Everyone jump up on the peace train
Come on now peace train
Get your bags together
Go bring your good friends too
'Cause it's getting nearer
It soon will be with you
Now come and join the living
It's not so far from you
And it's getting nearer
Soon it will all be true