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Fridayevening we went for a bad steak at the terras close to where I live, Andy, Esperanza, Nico and Saïda, a quite night and I ended up sleeping in front of my TV at 03h30 in the morning. Neverthless the few hours of sleep, I woke up around 7h30 in the morning. Before I realised this unhealthy hour for a saturday, I was already out of the shower, dressed up in my leathers and racing with the bike towards Navacerrada a mountainpeak at 1860m good half an hour drive with my bike (34min to be exact)… I’m not sure if this was a ‘reasonable time’ because I actually went a few times above 180km/h… absolutely nobody on the road and nice and cool morning… at the top of the mountain, out of the Sun it was 15 degrees !!!! What a wonderfull feeling sitting on a terras, watching the sun win it from the light mist, having a croissant and a coffee while enjoyning the complete silence and peace of the world… I whished that Ana was with me, she would have really enjoyed it as well. Feeling so good, I decided to make a little more of a round towards the next moutainpeak., before heading back to Madrid. I wanted to be in shorts before the temperature would cross the 30degrees so that meant that I should try to be back before 11h30. Having another coffee on a little village terras, and then home. I never felt so happy getting up at 7h30 on a saturdaymorning !!! An excellent start of a day and a morning well spend !

I’m in a bad condition, I don’t need a doctor to tell me, my body does… I went inlineskating yesterday an my body hurts… I actually have classes on thursday in the Retiro park, it’s great fun and though I have no problems in moving around on my skates, there’s still shitloads to learn, so I’m a very enthousiatic student. Unfortunately my body doesn’t allow all those tricks without some extra exercices…

4 days to go and Ana is back… I never thought I would handle this so bad. I thought in the beginning that it might be OK to have 1 month a break so I could do the things I want and have some more time for myself… actually there’s nothing I do more now then when Ana is around and I do have enough time for myself… It was a mistake… time is passing slow without Ana around. The house is empty and silent, the bed too big, the food doesn’t taste well  etc etc… there are loads of issues that happen when she is not around. I haven’t found a positive point in being alone. It’s almost boring. I’m counting the days already for a whole month untill she comes back…

Life isn’t easy on the edge of technology… I have this AMD64 4200+ dual core CPU right now about 3 weeks in my system… I still don’t have a system I like. I explain : I’m absolutely pro Linux/Unix but as I work a lot with Dreamweaver, there was no option but installing a M$ product on this box as well … 2 options were obvious : A Windows XP Professional 64bit or a Windows 2003 server 64 bit.
Plan A
A server sounded me a bit too heavy for what I wanted, so it was the XP. hmmm, after 2 weeks I have to come back on that…. the absoluut main reason is that I can’t find an Antivirus program that actually installs on the damned thing… having windows without antivirus is like walking on Puerta del Sol with your wallet in your backpocket. It’s just a matter of time, but you are sure it won’t be long… So i decided to leave that partition there and install a second OS next to it, while looking around for a antivirus.
Plan B
So the second idea was, installing a proper 64bit linux on it (dual boot) and installing vmware, running a 32bit Windows XP in vmware and launch that up when I want to use Dreamweaver.

Failing a DVD burning program in Windows XP 64 Professional (well I know that Nero might be able to do this), I decided to download the Fedora Core 5 for 64bit on my Solaris 10 box and try to install the Linux by means of kickstart (you know, instead of getting the packages from a CD, getting it from an FTP/HTTP server) so far so good, downloaded 3,2Gb on the blade, did the checksum, booted the X64 box from a Rescue CD and tried to connect to my Sunblade in order to launch the installation from the network shit : no networkdrivers. (this is a onboard 1Gb connection…
Up to Plan C
Installing from a HD. I moved the 3.2Gb dvd.iso over to an external USB drive (FAT32 partition !), booted from the rescue disk, explained him to get the OS from /dev/sdc3 etc… can’t mount the drive, can’t load the driver… while it can see the fucking iso. I’m not sure who wrote the fedora doc, but I’m not sure if anybody actually tried that. There is very little information to be found…
Up to Plan D
Ok that’s where I’m now… I’m downloading the DVD in the office and I’m sure there has to be a writer available… I should have done this at the very start… but then again, I’m always happy to try things out. but also : I’m the one who gets himself in the most complex situations… none of the it-ers I met, get in this kind of trouble… I should rent myself out as a betatester… I’m absolutely sure : if there is a bug or an error in your procedure : i will hit it.

I’m not done yet… I’m sure I will hit some more issues before getting the damned thing up and running. But by the time I will have it up and running : I will be the fastest cowboy of whole Iberia !!!!!

That was definitely the logan of last 2 weeks… After 5 days on a festivalground in Belgium, sleeping 3 to 4 hours a night and ‘knocking back a couple of cold ones, there was a time to go back to Madrid. I’ll try to make a resume of that festivalweekend as soon as my head is cleared up a bid (it hit 38 degrees celcius today so my brain is suffering).

Actually I was home in Madrid for exaclty 1 day when I went of for a ‘business’ conference in Zarago… let’s get this straight : 8 hour on a bus, 2 hours on lunch, 3 hours conference, 2 hours reception, 4 hours dinner and 10 hours on the piss So last friday was actually staying alive. Saturday I had to drink for a good cause… always ready to help of course.

Ana is away to Edinburgh at the moment. She will be gone untill 4th of August and I’m not sure how to survive… In the beginning I found a positive section as in ‘it’s not so bad to be seperated for a while, it will give time to do your things’… I can’t see that now. 5 weeks is way to long… I do miss my chiquetin way too much. The house is empty without her. And I’m counting the days untill she’s back. I’m actually a bit in a non-active mood out of it.
All above that is why choepie was not updated lately. Finally here are some pics of Werchter 2006
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