Sick, but better now

I was a bit sick these last few days, so I hereby predict that a large number of my coworkers will be sick in about a week. Due to a combination of me having a strong immune system and a few of my coworkers having rather depressed immune systems, when I get sick, people almost die. Sorry about that!

I've watched Black Hawk Down with azrhey yesterday. I found it to be very well done and rather realistic. The RPGs didn't make huge gasoline-tank explosions, people get deafened by close range shooting, etc. azrhey said she found it a bit boring, because she knew the history well, and it stuck to it very closely, so I suppose that's a positive of some sort. I found it interesting to see the difference between the Rangers, who all had standard issue weapons and equipment, and the Delta Operatives, who had weapons of their own choice (most using paratrooper-type compact M16 rifles, but I saw a few M14 rifles and M1911 handguns). This made me want to play some Tribes 2 again, mmhh!

On the geekier side of things, I finally managed to make Rhythmbox use something else than the silly "esdsink" it was using (on my box, ESD tended to freeze, crash or confuse itself on a regular basis). Should make my music much more reliable, which is good. The great hard disk clean up of 2005 goes forward, slowly, with still 3.2 gigabytes of old cruft to go, from almost 8 years back in some cases. There will be no upgrading of my box before this is done.

Still got a bunch of things to do left and right. As usual, I could use more time, but motivation isn't so good either...