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Jill and I need to decide by the end of the month whether we want to stay in our current apartment for another year or move someplace else. Two things we’d really like to change about our current living situation is having another bedroom (so we can each have our own space) and having a washer and dryer in the unit. We’ll be looking around in the next couple of weeks to see if we can find anything matching that criteria within our price range.

On a related note, I find myself turning down apartment choices based on what kind of Internet service they are able to get. I’d really like to stick with AT&T’s U-verse, so the hunt continues.

With the exception of XP I’ve never been one to stick with a single operating system for long. Sometimes I dual- or even triple-boot to mix things up, other times I experiment with a Linux distro or a beta version of Windows (as I am currently).

I’m feeling the itch again, this time because the various little beta bugs and incompatibilities of Windows 7 are starting to get to me; while most software seems to function well under this operating system, a small amount of them that I use on a regular basis (ex: TightVNC) don’t seem to run as well as they did on XP. As a result I’m seriously considering switching things up again (and the fact that Windows 7 isn’t due until late 2009 doesn’t help), but for some reason find myself being drawn to a Linux install once more.

I like the nerd-factor of running Linux, and I’m definitely more comfortable with it now than I ever was in the past. Most likely the fascination will last all of a week at which point I will probably drag myself back to XP once more… We’ll see how things develop.