the phagos blog

‘An unexamined life is not worth living.’ - Socrates
This line of thought finally coalesced Saturday night while doing my food prep, and it was a phone call I received at lunch on Friday that triggered it.  It’s something I’ve been thinking about and and off for a while in bits and pieces.  I’m not talking about the big ‘Why?’ that spawned the fields of religion, philosophy, and science, but rather something a little closer to home.   My question is this: why do I do the things I choose to do?

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I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later - I’ve attracted the attention of a troll.  I knew when I started writing this blog that not everyone would agree with what I’ve written, and I’ve never been under the delusion that everyone would like me, and I’m ok with that.  Since I write this blog for myself, really, I don’t care if anyone else likes it or not.

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I frequently tell people I run Linux at home, specifically Kubuntu, since I’m a KDE guy.    For you Windows users, Linux is a different operating system (os), and KDE is the desktop I prefer.  You see, unlike Windows, I get to tell my system what desktop to use, which determines how it’s laid out, what it looks like, and what features it has. Even better, most distributions of Linux, are absolutely free.  As is the software that goes on it.  Need a word processor?  No problem, it comes with OpenOffice, a fully functional office suite that can handle most Microsoft Office formats as well.  And adding additional software, again, all free, is a few simple steps, you just need to know its name.

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Warning - this post is a rant, pure and simple.

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Yesterday and today were a study of contrasts.  Yesterday I was restless, couldn’t hardly sit still, it was definitely worse after I got home than it was at work, where I couldn’t hardly sit still anyway.  Watching part of The Matrix helped, but it didn’t last long.  I had an unpleasant dream last night… I can’t say nightmare, because it wasn’t frightening, but I would have been better off without it, I think.  I kinda picked up where I left off this morning until I got to visit Riverbanks.

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I joined MySpace a while ago so I could kep track of some of my favorite musicians, and last week I finally got around to updating my profile, putting something out there besides just a picture and blank profile.

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