Hey-diddle-de-ho there neighbour-inos! What’s new in Karen-land, you ask?
I finished reading my two Unix books and am now a guru superuser somewhat competent user and know how to get around, telnet, ftp, search/grep, copy, remove and move things and such. I learned two neat tricks this week: in OSX, typing “ls -G” gives a colourized list for files, directories and symbolic links (according to one of my Unix books, “ls –color” does the same thing in other Unix-ish versions. And from Dan: “open -a application.app” opens an application in Finder from the terminal. neat-o.
So I’m now into the Perl book and doing ok, but its a bit of a crash course since I have never programmed before and I still don’t quite understand the whole strings, operators and scalar valuables thing yet, but I’m sure I will with time.
I’m still not feeling well. Some days I am fine and other days I can’t stand the thought of food and have to force myself to eat. Not much fun. I went to the clinic and begged for some antibiotics, but (probably sensibly) they turned me down since we really don’t know what’s wrong yet. BTW Quebec definately has a two-tier health care system and although I’m too tired and fed up to blog on it now, I might later just to show how messed up it is here. It’s bad enough that I am seriously considering moving elsewherre in a few years. I hate to think that it has come to that, but I can’t seem to get competent health care in Montreal (or I haven’t learned how to use the system yet) and frankly, I need it given my immune system appears to be made up of tape, string, and a hamster running in a wheel.
Speaking of rodents, the mice are dong well, although Keiko had a sore on her head last week. I put some cream on it and it’s mostly healed now. They are struggling over who is the dominant mouse, and Keiko seems too tired or lazy to stand up for herself so I think Miette is now in charge. Also today there was a pathetic (but very chubby, as you can see) squirrel sitting on the tree outside our apartment making this lamentful barking sound. He was just kind of sitting there on our tree looking extremely depressed/confused and occasionally barking. I think he must have woken up from his hibernation early (just for the record, its Jan 14th and 0C) and didn’t know what to do since there was no food. I put some bread on the balcony, but he didn’t take it. Well its supposed to get down to -14 tonight so hopefully he will go back to bed and wake up in April.
Dan is re-installing the OS & software on his computer, as per his demiannual tradition.
Grapefruit was on sale at the grocery store so we bought a bag. They are so nice to have with breakfast!
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