Home again, home again

Hey every­body.  Thanks for the sup­port.  It means alot.  I think I’ve aged about 10 years in the past week.

Blog­ging really doesn’t hold a lot of appeal for me right now, but I want to keep some sem­blance of a rou­tine up for my own men­tal health.  The les­son that your thoughts and responses shape your life has really been rein­forced to me, and I want to be back to healthy and happy.  It’s pos­si­ble that I’ll talk about my brother later, or my grief, or some­thing, but I don’t know. I have found that writ­ing out some of the garbage helps, but right now it’s really hard. I just hope that any­one read­ing this would remem­ber in the hard­est times of life, some­one out there does love you, and would prob­a­bly give any­thing to help you through what­ever it is.

In other news, while I was gone, my hus­band installed Ubuntu on my com­puter, and it’s giv­ing me absolute fits.  Orig­i­nally I wanted a dual-boot, but I had a very irri­tat­ing issue with Vista and Win­dows Update that kept recur­ring, so I had already decided to wipe it and start fresh. Hopefully the switch will be worth it. Com­ing home to a brand new com­puter is good. Right now I feel over­whelmed, in part because my brain is just not lik­ing that I am forc­ing it to focus. I keep find­ing all sorts of bugs every­where I turn. I appre­ci­ate this, because I’ve already learned much more by hav­ing to trou­bleshoot than I expected.

While I like to plunge head­long into things, I’m find­ing that trou­bleshoot­ing isn’t enough to help me under­stand.  Today I’m going back to the begin­ning.  I plan on read­ing the Ubuntu Pocket Guide. The forums are there for me, too.  I know there’s some Ubuntu vets out there, some­where.  Any­one have any sug­ges­tions for read­ing mate­r­ial or other aids?