At Thanksgiving, I said something about Buy Nothing Day. Of course, someone raised the objection of the poor economy.
But, check out Robert Riech's piece on the recession and war:
But we don't live to support an economy. The economy exists to support us and the standard of living we choose. And if terrorism reminds us that what we can buy is less important than the lives we want to lead, that's OK with me and probably OK with you.
Also, after going home to El Dorado, AR for Thanksgiving, I'm getting a little nostalgic for a small town.
Basil (almost 3) and I laid out one night and looked up at the dark sky. He loved it. He also spotted a falling star and, later, so did I.
Alexis, though, wants to stay here, near her brothers, so I doubt that is going to happen soon.
I've decided to try out SGI's XFS for a filesystem instead of ReiserFS. I think I see some immaturity in ReiserFS and it bugs me. Corrupted files on reboot ain't good.
While compiling the kernel, I ran into a Signall 11. Not a good thing. apt-get install gcc seems to have fixed it, though.