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figures. the latest unmasked Gaim that Gentoo has is bloody 0.66. so I'm gonna snag the masked 0.70 and hopefully I'll be able to get on Yahoo! after that. I should probably check out my new kernels while I'm offline, too.

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how disturbingly accurate. it was probably the PDA that did me. ^_^

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well, I finally did it: I cleaned out my collective Gaim buddy list. got rid of all the people I used to talk to on ICQ and haven't seen online in a few years, the people I met through an AOL chat room Cory and I used to screw around with people in, the people I used to play T4C and UO with back when I played them... basically anybody I either haven't talked to in years or who refused the ICQ auth. request when I tried to re-add them.

I did keep four ICQs that I couldn't remember who they belonged to (is it wrong to have a contact group called "Who the fuck knows?"?), but aside from those I'm down to 46 buddies and 28 actual people.

now I need to get into Windows and do the equivalent cleanup in Trillian. -_-

maybe later.

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okay. so 2.6.0-test6 apparently has something changed that causes it to lock up my computer about half an hour after I boot it. looks like I'm sticking to -test5 for now. oh well.

and I really need to look into the options for whatever command-line ALSA mixer I have, see if I can figure out how to unmute the main sound channel and set it to 50 or so automagically instead of doing it manually with alsamixer or alsamixergui.

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oh yeah, and while we out earlier we stopped at Target ('cause we were in the area) and I finally returned my sunglasses. would have got a new pair, but I was like $1.31 short, so I couldn't. ;_; and I really liked them too.

so now I have twenty bucks, and no idea what to do with it. well, I know I should save it, but... gah! I want to get a gamepad! but I want to get a Playstation so I can play DDR, but that could end up over $100 if my pad doesn't work (for new pad plus game). but I could get a gamepad like my brother has for like $18. on the other hand, if I could find an AT keyboard, or a PS/2 keyboard and a PS/2->AT adapter, or a cheap USB keyboard and the adapter, I could get my other computer running, which would let me play with Linux even while I was in Windows. and with another 25 feet of CAT5, I could use it to check out GameFAQs while I was playing something without having to minimize it. but that's another thing that'd be more than $20, so it's kinda out for the moment.

so what I'm probably going to end up doing is spending it on razor blades in a couple of weeks. ¬_¬