August 4, 2016: On the Phone All Day

It is Thursday.  Today ended up turning into an “all day on the phone” kind of day.  I tried doing a couple of hours of phone calls from the house this morning, but after a bit it was obvious that the calls were not sounding very good and it was very hard to do anything on them.  So I decided to quickly shower and run down to the office down the street in between two of the calls so that I could make calls from Danielle’s desk, instead.

This worked out much better. I took my new Asus ROG laptop with me and worked on getting Linux installed to it while taking calls all afternoon.  I had no luck getting anything to work on it, though.  I’m getting a bit frustrated.  The laptop works great with Windows but for some reason every Linux distro that I try has all kinds of problems.  I had wanted to get Linux Mint working on it but that does not work at all.  By the end of the day I got OpenSuse half working on it, but only half and that’s not enough.

This evening back at the house we ordered in pizza and mozz sticks and the family watching Back to the Future Part II together while I set up the new laptop and spent hours trying to get things working to no avail.  It was a fun evening, though.  The girls are very into the Back to the Future movies now.  They are really enjoying them.  And Liesl is pretty close to the age that I was when the very first one came out.  I would have been nine.