The Lonesome Road

Not in the mood to write much today - after all when you’ve been staring at a computer screen for the last six hours, waiting for Linux to install, only to find that there are read errors on the cd…Well it sort of kills the joy.

What happened was Linux usually attaches the GUI to tty7 (i.e terminal 7). My friend, who was using Fedora before this had his GUI on the last terminal. He wanted to keep the same setting in Suse. Unfortunately, when he tried to modisy the setting, Suse balked and refused to start the X-server - even after the changes were rolled back. So we had the thankless job of reinstalling the system - which as I said, failed miserably.

So, back home now. It’s been a scorcher of a day - had the AC at full blast. It seems to me that the people on the roadsof this city have some sort of death wish. As I drove back home today, I saw three near accidents. Then came my turn. When I was turning in from the main road into my lane, these two ladies were busy crossing the street, looking and talking to each other - with nary a care as to who might be coming up the road. They gave no reaction - even after repeated horn blasts, so finally had to stop right in front of them. That sorta woke them up

Later