Compiling

Yes, you read right. I am up late compiling. I never thought that it would be the case, but it is. See, I have a Linux box now and I'm currently engaged in a crash course of all things command line. I never knew how frustrating it could be ... until now. Other than the compiling problems, the system is running fine. It's a bit slow - Pentium II-450 with 384 MB of RAM - but it seems adequate for what I am doing with it, which mostly consists of messing around and listening to my MP3s while doing it. I managed to mount a Windows share all by myself (after a lot of reading and googling) and even set it up to mount the share during boot. That was exciting. I think I might've clapped. Let's see....

...sorry, back now. Had to stop, had to deal with another error. Who knew I needed libgtk2.0-dev installed? Well, I did. Now I do, so maybe there won't be any more errors.

In other news (and known to most already), I received a promotion at work a few weeks back. I am now the branch manager of both the Crete and Manteno locations of Great Lakes Bank. A modest raise went with the increase in responsibility (and aggravation). And, it looks great on a resume.

And ... to make sure I don't forget, the best non-regular season non-broadcast network show is coming back on for its third season on Sunday. Yes, I'm talking about The 4400. If you've never seen it, I highly recommend. I also recommend you rent (or otherwise obtain) the first two seasons. Season 1 is short - it was originally meant to be a miniseries - and season 2 is of normal length. I'll be watching.