Happy New Year

My husband's at home now, working on getting the desktop computers online. He was also going to make my computer "usable." I told him that it's perfectly usable under Windows, I just need him to get me online. He says that's not good enough, though, he wants me to use Linux. That's fine, once I'm online I can install stuff myself. The one thing I don't think I can figure out myself is the audio. It keeps telling me "no volume control element found" or something like that. The Linux community would benefit greatly from packing things out of the box- a system that auto-installs things like Gaim, OpenOffice, CD/DVD player, etc. I'd happily test for such a thing, I think I'm about an average user. Well... I suppose that's debatable. I'm comfortable in Linux, Windows, Mac... Now, I think that Macs dislike me, they've all given me issues except for OS X. I've dabbled in game design, text games, photo-editing (I grew up and got trained in old-school film photography, still trying to translate that to digital imagery) and so on. Speaking of which... I'm still looking forward to the day when I can partake of my hobbies more regularly. But not swimming. No, I've gotten to that point where I'm high enough up the chain of command that I can't swim at my own pool. I still like to swim, but I can't enjoy it at the place that I work, because someone needs me to do something. So instead I'll work on my other hobbies, like cross-stitching (it's been over a year since I picked up a needle), photography (my husband just bought me a new digital camera, it rocks), reading (the last book I read for fun was LotR, which took me like 2 years to get halfway through the second book...). We'll see, right? I have all my cross stitching stuff in a sealed box in the garage, that's where I'd like to start first. I've heard from people in the past week or two (or found them on MySpace) that I haven't seen or heard form in a while, which is really nice. I miss my friends, hope to get back in touch with you in the new year. :) Back with more in a few days probably.