There Is a White Flag Upon My Door -Sunday, February 08, 2004 -3:57 am-
I've been househunting since Wednesday last. So far it has been nothing but heartache and trouble. Every place is either too small, too expensive, too dumb, or in too bad of a neighborhood. In the last three days, I've been to about 20 complexes and have yet to find anything I think is a good move. Stone Ridge Crossing (or something like that... I should write an apartment complex name generator... just a list of geological features and verbs-that-are-also-nouns that get randomly assembled), which I stopped at yesterday and was rather excited about turned out to be rather unimpressive. It was small, or at least all the walls were close in so it felt very claustrophobic. All of the other places, save one, that we visited were too small for our needs. We need to come up with a bedroom, two offices, a kitchen/diningroom, living room, and a basement/workshop. We did, however, find one perfect apartment. It was a two bedroom townhouse built into the side of a hill. It had an awesome kitchen with big bar, a huge dining room, a nicely sized den, two bedrooms, a giant livingroom with wet-bar, a basement, and a garage. The failing of this place was its $1100/mo price tag. God damn it.
In a further display of geekiness, I have KDE 3.1 up and running in Xnest. It's pretty cool, there's this whole other GUI just setting around in a 1024x768 window inside of Aqua. I think I might try GNOME next. Hmm... I see a screenshot showing Aqua, Classic, KDE, GNOME, and Win2k running all at once. My other geekly achievement for today was finally spanning the displays on the server with the display on the laptop. What this means is that I plunk down the laptop on the desk under the server's monitors and if I need to work with something on the server, I just push the mouse up off the top of the laptop's screen and the mouse and keyboard for the laptop magically start controlling the server. Keeps me from grabbing the wrong damn mouse when I'm running both the laptop and server at the same time.