Pete's Log: election insanity

Entry #567, (Life in General)
(posted when I was 22 years old.)

so last night at about 2:30 I was lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, watching election coverage. Then they announce quite suddenly that Bush had won. I was slightly surprised, but they'd decided to give florida to Bush, winning the election for him. So I watched for a while longer, not quite trusting them, since they'd already been wrong about florida before, but they kept going on about it, so I turned off the tv and went to sleep, still slightly skeptical. And lo and behold, I wake up and all of a sudden Bush is no longer president-elect. Man, this election is insane. It's kinda fun.

Being as cool as I am, I finally figured out how to unbreak debian. See, they've updated to a new version of perl, so as part of that process they uninstall the old version of perl and then try to install the new version of perl. Sounds good enough. Of course, there's a slight problem. Various install scripts depend on perl. Grrr... easily fixed tho once I finally figured out what the actual problem was. I'm now also running XFree 4.0. It seems to be working well enough... I want a bigger monitor, tho.

Now I'm late for class, so I guess I'll go ...