The Quagmire of my Discontent: The Apocalypse of WeeSaul - Abondon all hope, ye who enter here!!!

Reaching for the clouds, for nothing else remains
Drifting in a daze, when evening will be done
Try looking through a haze
At an empty house, in the cold, cold sun...

Ah, the joys of mobile computing! How I do enjoy being free from my desk and out in the world where I can write all that is to be written...

For the curious geeks of the world, after all the testing of various operating systems (actually different flavors of Linux) I have finally reached a point where I am satisfied with what I have to work with. I suppose I should say that I'm as satisfied as I can be being that this laptop is almost ten years old and I am not going to put any money into it. I have gone to the minimalist line of thought for a number of reasons, but mainly because of the money issue and I'm not going to buy a Linux compatible WiFi card. I suppose if there is anyone out there who wishes to give me one, I will change my thought processes on this. Being that I just need this to write at the moment, I can save everything to my hard drive and reboot to Windows to upload it. This set up offers a few advantages from a faster boot to longer battery life to faster loading of documents - battery life is the major reason and one that I never expected. For the ÜberCurious, I now run NimbleX - the 69mb version - for all my writing. Ew, it's freakin' fast compared to the Windows 98 version of this laptop...

In the news of the world, it is dark outside, warm with like about 175% humidity, and a chance of storms. And the chance of storms has me in the mood to write all that I need to write even if what I need to write is nothing of importance. I am hoping that the storm will be intense, but I have a feeling the spectacular storm was this morning when the power was knocked out for a while. And I know that somewhere on the opposite side of the valley there is a tree that shows the scars of a bolt of lightening...

And this reminds me of the night at work that an intense storm knocked the power out for a few hours. In the midst of the power outage when no work could be done, most of the shift was sitting in the break room just watching the storm when there was a flash that lit the entire parking lot and a crack so loud that it shook the entire building. When the storm had passed and the power was returned, we went out to survey the damage the storm had wrought upon the world. The first thing that was noticeable was the fact that the parking lot and the cars therein were covered with what looked like wood chips. Upon further investigation, the source of the wood chips was found to be a tree that once stood upon a small hill that overlooked the parking, and it was concluded that this tree had been hit by a bolt of lightening so strong that most of its trunk had exploded into a million small fragments that were deposited across all that could be seen. Lo, the tree did die well...

And such are those types of things with trees...

This is the Word of the AntiCrust...

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