View From the Bushes:

There is something about me, conventions and computers which just don't mix. My brother-in-law generously agreed to let me borrow his dual-boot laptop, which is ideal, because then I can run DireKobold in local mode on the Linux side and use the Windows side to actually connect to the internet should I run into a wireless connection. So I went up to his house last night to finish getting it set up and that's when my past wickedness caught up with me -- right as my "aura of unluck" entered his office, the computer crashed while switching from a static IP to DHCP and everything having to do with networking on the Windows side stopped working.

After fiddling around with things for far too long, we finally decided to do a clean re-install of both OS's. Unfortunately, that didn't really go that smoothly either and around 3:30 am we called it a night. Or I should say rather, my brother-in-law called it a night; I had collapsed in exhaustion long before then. Fortunately, I guess, we had started two days before I was leaving rather than the day before, so that leaves me with today to whip things into shape. I had really hoped to finally be back to the point where I wasn't pulling an all-nighter right before the convention, but it looks like I may not be so lucky.

In any case, despite all my bitching and moaning I am really looking forward to the convention. Also it's important at this point to recognize my totally awesome wife who has gone far beyond what I had any right to expect in allowing me to follow my dreams. My one big regret about going to GenCon is that I will miss our 10-year anniversary, and I just want to mention publicly that she has been extraodinarily understanding about that fact. Well, I'm running late, so I don't have time to include any links. I'll give you a full report when I get back.

Humming songs from West Side Story
Ross

Posted by direkobold at August 16, 2005 02:47 PM

I am shocked that you would let anything so trivial and ephemeral as a convention get in the way of spending your anniversary with your wife. Your wedding anniversary is the one day of the year that should be sacrosanct. It is demeaning to your vows to even ask to be somewhere else, and even if she give you permission, it is absolutely venal to take it.

Posted by: sti at August 16, 2005 08:19 PM

I must explain my tolerance for Ross's missing our anniversary: if we celebrated on the actual day, Ross would put "x" amount of effort into the celebration. By missing the actual day, Ross feels compelled to put approximately "3x" effort into it, plus he still ends up owing me for missing the actual day. I win several times over.

Posted by: yourwife at August 16, 2005 08:25 PM