This week I haven’t been doing much blog posting, I’ve still been online but doing other things and spending some time offline trying to heal up my leg which requires me to have it raised above my heart. In any event there’s is no comfortable way for me to use the computer (even my laptop) whilst keep my leg raised, this has led to me putting new and current projects on the back burner, yet again. I had to cut off my boot early again this week due to it being too loose. Last week it was too tight, this week too loose. I tell ya you cannot win for loosing. This week, the boot is a different brand and didn’t “shrink” itself after being put on and the swelling in my leg subsiding due to having the boot on which ment the whole boot was fitting like a sock with stretched out elastic. 
That’s not good for business and as uncomfortable as it is in the first place, why keep it on if it’s doing me any good? I’m sure doc will piss and moan but at least I’ve been using the stocking in place of it to keep some compression on it.
Aside from that, I played with Kubuntu featuring KDE4 a bit which led to me doing 4 reinstalls of Ubuntu yesterday on my desktop, laptop, and my old desktop mainly because I didn’t want all the KDE cruft left after installing ‘ubuntu-desktop’, which is the meta package for Gnome and all it’s dependances. I do like KDE4 it seems a lot faster than Gnome however there are very few desktop widgets included with the default install which is typical of KDE and I wonder why quite frankly. Gnome has plenty of panel widgets installed by default. I realize you can install a package to get more desktop widgets and I did however there still wasn’t a weather widget which is pretty basic stuff. 
However I did read something about the possibly of KDE 4 being compatible with OS X widgets which seems pretty cool but I didn’t have time to read further.
Last Friday night I drove for the first time since I’ve been home. I love driving but with the boot on it’s very uncomfortable. I took Mom to Wally World and got some Dunkin’ Donuts, so that was nice.
Tomorrow is Mom’s birthday, I ordered some stuff online from a catalog I got in the mail called LTD Commodities. They have really good prices on all kinds of stuff for the house and trinkets but their website has a bit to be desired. My biggest qualm is they don’t tell you the shipping price when you checkout, they tell you when they package it you will be billed for it. Not even an email telling you how much before they debit your card which is pretty assine in this day and age. I think I got rooked on shipping, I ordered $31.26 worth of stuff, nothing heavy and my card was charged $48.31. $17.05 to ship a 3 light items! Me thinks I got screwed over, perhaps that’s why their prices are so cheap because they rook you on shipping! None the less it’s some nice stuff so I won’t complain. However I placed my order on Sunday as of today it’s still ‘preparing to ship’ WTF kind of company is this? Most online companies ship the same or next business day. 
Anyhow today for one reason or another feels like Friday to me, perhaps because of the upcoming holiday weekend who knows, so I’m going to the store in order to buy Mom a birthday cake and am going to stop for a beer or two on the way home. 
