Peter’s Soapbox

Bethel Town Office: Still Can’t Get Through

Four years later, the song remains the same.

Melissa

I’ve been seeing someone. Since late in the fall of 2008, after my separation from my ex-wife had had time to really sink in, and I decided I was ready to move on. One day, quite out of the blue, I received a phone call, asking if I wanted to go out. Not having anything better to do with my time, I accepted.

— gory details omitted for brevity —

Fast forward to 2010. I have a (very) cute, (extremely) funny, (sometimes) bubbly, (always) silly companion in my life. She brightens my day, gives me new things to think about, and makes the world a better place to be. She’s not (very) afraid of tackling the mountain bike trails at Killington (although she may curse them and me for (literally)  dragging her down them). She’s always up for sushi or a glass of sweet, white wine. She’s happy to fail at 100 situps while I fail at 100 pushups. She’s never afraid to say exactly what’s on her mind, or to suggest new things for me to try. She’s stood by me during the ups and downs, and has always been there when I needed her.

So, Melissa, you can stand up and take a bow. You’re “my girl” and I’m not afraid to say it: I love you. You make the sky bluer, the grass greener, and the stems stemmier. You put the silly back in my life, and I don’t like thinking what the last year would have been like without you.

Yes, stemmier.

I’m Single

I just got a letter from the Windsor County Family Court, ordering my divorce. A year and a half later, I’m finally free. I’d like to again thank all of my friends who were so supportive during this trying time, because it sure as hell wasn’t easy.

Love and peace to all. It’s a good day.

Quickly Determine What Version of Ubuntu You Have

If you have several machines running Ubuntu, or several versions installed on the same machine, you may, like me, sometimes forget what version you have are running presently. A quick and easy way to do this is with the following command:

lsb_release -a

An example of the output on my system is as follows:

peter@peeeter-karmic:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 9.10
Release:        9.10
Codename:       karmic

It’s Time To Be Lucid

Yesterday, while fiddling with my eeePC and attempting to install Crunchbang on an SD card, I accidentally nuked my GRUB config. Note to self: GRUB and GRUB2 = Oil and water. I started to look at the process of repairing the dreaded GRUB error 21, and then decided that this was a good opportunity to just try Lucid Lynx alpha 1. After all, I have a separate /home partition and my machine was already not booting, so what did I have to lose? Continue reading It’s Time To Be Lucid…