Homework and Search

So once again I find myself at CS lab at school, better be here then at home since I need to get some much needed homework done. Still have to finish up chapter 8 of Differentials.

Also to note, I am currently typing this post on my laptop that is now the proud host of Kubuntu Linux. It is an interesting distro to install. The cd is not just an install cd, but also a live cd as well. Boot up and you have a full linux desktop to play with, and then on the desktop is the install icon. Very easy to do, though a bit scary since I wasn't sure if the partion manager was doing its job correctly since I'm not able to an overview like in Fedora(RedHat) or Suse. Then came the hard part, getting wireless to work. I knew I needed ndiswrapper, and I just grabbed the drivers off of the windows partition, but turns out that I still needed extra packages to get wpa encryption working. Then to just configure it to connect to an AP was hell, so many different wiki and forum pages telling different things.

But I got through it nicely and now it works like a charm, though I still would like it to just work and not need a password(ie sudo). Anyways I kinda posted what I did in the Ubuntu wiki, maybe someone will pick up on it. As for the search, well I decided to see what a google/yahoo/ask query would pick up on if I put in Yatima Meiji(YatimaMeiji). Its funny to see my name pop up like that, though remember its not my legal, but just as real, name.

Later

Uppers and Downers

Yesterday I went with some people to go paintballing and had quite an experience. Our president gets some tickets, but turns out its a scam. Pay $15 for a ticket, but the place then wanted $25 for paint, so we just paid $20 for the rental plus paint. Crazy, but its not over yet. We had two professors come over, on from math and other from physics, and before we started our first game, one of them had moved their mask a bit and got caught. He was given a warning, I thought, but after that one game, the boss lady pulled our group over and told us that both of the professors were done for the day from removing their masks. It was a bunch of bullshit so we left.

We then headed to a local Chili's for some food and had a great time. Lots of laughing, throwing food and pulling knives, and all surprising with no alcohol in any of us, except for our math professor. Even after all that, once I got home, I couldn't help but to still ask, are any of these people really my friends? Can I count on any of them? I sometimes think I might have depression, but then wouldn't I always be like that? I was thinking about not even going, but deiced to go anyways since I knew I'd have more fun the laying around the house pretending to do my differential work, which I am doing right now.

I'm still left feeling alone at the end of the day. I'm figuring out that its not so much of having friends as it is as having someone to love. Yes turns out I'm still a romantic after all this time. I still want to find that someone, and I guess until then I'm going to be alone. Its just disheartening that until then, I'm the lone traveler.

Pages and thoughts

I've messed with googlepages a bit and find it interesting. I've used it to post some things that I dont feel that are blog worthy. You can find them here: yatimameiji.googlepages.com.