Short night; I got to bed at 04:00 and I was up at 09:00 for some damned reason. Karen stayed home sick again today, still feeling crummy. She did get a good nights sleep, though.
There was about an inch of snow on the cars and lawn and trees when I went to bed, but it was mostly gone by the time I got up.
And I haven't really accomplished anything worthwhile today, just messing around with the computers.
I think that I need a life. On the other hand, that much of a change could kill an old man like me...
Karen and I went over and got Patrick about noon... the kids have started their spring break already. Did they have spring breaks when I was going to school? I don't really remember them if they did... did I say the same thing last year? Probably... unless my memory's getting worse.
And no mail today. E-mail, I'm talking about. The site that hosts nilknarf.net has been down since at least 07:00, the last e-mail that I got from their server was at 06:54.
Not having e-mail is frustrating. Luckily, it's not quite life-threatening, at least for a short period... which I'm assuming that this will be.
And I started thinking, "Y'know, they really believe that; I'm a good person, I think, but because I don't believe the way they do I'm going to burn in hell for all eternity."
And the people who say that really don't care; they can't. They, after all, aren't going to hell, they're going to heaven! (A concept that I have even more trouble with than that of hell, but that's a whole 'nother discussion.) And I have a little trouble believing that anyone who would consign me to hell could ever have my best interests at heart.
And yes, I feel that they're kinda gleeful about it... I won't be taking any of their space in heaven, all the more room for them.
I might wind up doing that anyway, then. I read the docs on RedHat 4.7 or whatever it was and then I kinda quit reading it, and that was two or three years ago. Or four or five. Software changes (not always for the better) and it needs to be kept up with, or you're lost.
Like this latest version that I've been working with, 7.0. It doesn't automatically load Samba (the networking component that works with windows {theoretically!}) or Apache. All of the other versions have loaded them and started them, or allowed for them to be started relatively easily.
They do have a pretty neat way of loading other components into the system, however, that is not as cryptic as it used to be... so that's not a real problem. However, if you don't read the docs, it can waste some time. I wasted several days before I went looking for the docs. Which was just plain dumb. I need to quit being dumb, I guess.
On the other hand, people like the dumb Doug better'n the one who is always right.
Now it's just 98% instead of 100, but I normally don't tell people that.
It's really hard telling when I'll get this up, but I think that I'm gonna quit writing and take a short nap, then stay up all night and sleep most of tomorrow.
Lacee's birthday party is tomorrow, though, and I promised that I would try to go, even if it is in the middle of the night for me. Her birthday isn't until the 22nd, but the skating party is from 13:00-15:00 tomorrow.
17:37... I just tried to get the site on the web and it's there! Which means that everything should be back to normal shortly, I hope. And when I got the page up, the first thing that I noticed was a misspelling... "rin" for "run". Damn that spellchecker, anyway! Yeah, I ran it before I put it up... at some time or another, I must've added rin into the dictionary.
Anyways, the e-mail usually comes up about thirty minutes after the website does, and I know that I'm gonna have to read my mail before I go to sleep!
Damn. I just ran the spellchecker on today's entry, and it stopped on "rin". Which means that I couldn't have run it yesterday... which means I'm losing my mind, 'cause I know that I did. Probably. Maybe. Well, OK, I don't *really* remember running it, but I always do. Mostly.
O'well.
At least I can post on the A/A forum. A little outlet. And speaking of religion and e-mail... I mentioned earlier that I got frequent e-mails protesting my lack of religion, and "chiding" me and frequently telling me that I was going to go to hell.
They, after all, aren't going to hell, they're going to heaven! 
So anyways, a little birdie told me not to give up on Linux. In case you don't know, for some stupid reason the Linux mascot is a penguin. They're kinda cute, really, and completely unoffensive. Quite inappropriate, actually. Anyway, it told me that I should read the documentation. What a concept... RTFM!