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Many things happened yesterday. Bit of an adventure for a Tuesday to be honest. It involved home improvement, new jeans, Linux installations, and an animal adventure (none of ours thank goodness). The day started off pretty normal. Taught day two of my class without any major issues. Got through all the material and everyone seemed very happy with the class. On our last break I braised and prepped a little tri-tip to go into the slow cooker. I only cooked it for four hours and honestly I think it could have used another hour.

The other day when we were out B bought a new pair of jeans and she really loves them. She gave them to me to try on and they really our nice jeans for the price she paid. They were only $36 and I have been looking for a second pair of jeans to have for day to day wear. I found the same ones on amazon for the same price including next day shipping. Ordered those while teaching class. They should be here by 3 today. Score.

While I was teaching a thought occurred to me. I have this little mini box from my buddy and originally the plan was to use it as a media server in the living room plugged directly into the TV. That was going to be a bit of a hassle and that's when we ended up buying the new Apple TV and using it with Plex. That has been working great but then I realized, I don't need a big giant box dedicated to doing that. I can use this little mini box in the office feeding Plex to the front room. That would free up the 24" iMac to use in the bedroom as a baby TV when B wanted to watch something while relaxing in bed. So if you're reading this right now, you're probably not getting this baby box back any time soon. Sorry.

Before I could work on that though, I needed to finish my other project - the new ceiling fan. Got that mounted and installed pretty quickly. B is very happy as am I with how it came out. Some nice air flow in that area now. When summer comes around we're going to be doing okay. When that was done, I ran to the store to get a salad for dinner, some eggs and dye for Sunday, and a couple of miscellaneous things. Came back, and started reformatting the mini. Got Ubuntu on it after a couple of little glitches. Issues with lightdm and needed to reconfigure at the terminal. But in the end I got it working. Now I just need to go to the thrift store and grab a cheap ass mouse, KB, and possibly a monitor. I really only need the monitor for installation and config so I may opt out of that. I can SSH into it once it is all connected and use SMB to transfer files to it.

Had dinner and as we were doing the dishes B noticed out the window there were some cops at the little strip mall behind us. I went to the window to see if I could see anything and that's when I saw what I believe to have been a small dog running across the street. In traffic. Yes, a car dinged him. I thought they ran him over but when she got out to look the animal was gone. B and I of course were worried it was hiding somewhere injured so we went out in the dark and started walking through muck and mud to find it. Didn't find it, but also didn't see any blood in the street or anything. I think it was stunned and ran home back into the house across the street. We were both worried and concerned about the poor thing.

After all that excitement we settled in to watch some TV and then I went to bed around 10:30. Conference call today at 9, then document writing. Tomorrow and Friday is more teaching. Getting close to April and my non-stop month. Whee.