eadwine's blogBack when I was sick and afterwards I had recorded so much on the DVD recorder that it was getting dreadfully full, so, today I decided that I was going to get rid of quite a few things that still needed watching. A few movies, a few episodes of various series (Mentalist, 11th Hour, NCIS), and I am finally caught up with the series at least. The only downside is that I am seeing square at the moment, but oh well.. it was a fun way to spend a Saturday.
Good news on the lungs.. pneumonia left NO traces at all. Even the scar tissue is gone now, which in itself is amazing. Right now my lungs look like nothing ever happened to them, as if the entire event has been erased totally.
They may be, but my way of thinking about a few things has forever changed. Fear of dying I no longer have. I DO now.. I don't want to die.. but should push come to shove again, I know that it is easy to just let go and not look back. There is nothing scary about it. Maybe the moment itself will be, but.. *shrug* at least I view that part differently now.
And I have redefined what is important to me. I can spend money on things I deeply care about, like my friends, or people in need. Save a bit for yourself, but give a little as well, and it'll make you happier too.
On this last bit I hope to see a close dear friend again sooner than I'd hoped for, within three months, which is wonderful.
As for the system.. it is now a full week into the new install and things are running SO DAMNED NICELY! I have given up on a few things that were installed on the old version, things that really don't matter much and can be done in Windows easily enough. It is more stress than it is worth to install for instance Virtualbox in Linux just to scan something. I just as easily reboot and do it that way.
I edited a few settings left and right so my backup drive now mounts at boot, which is the way I like it, and so I will have my boot log available, which was disabled. Some other few things and tweaks and stuff is like I want it to be. I am much happier with this mepis 8 than I was on mepis 6. Knowledge and experience of course helps a bundle with this. I simply don't do things that I consider irrelevant now, things I thought were back when. Saves stress *grin*
