I went to the west seattle garage sale, on saturday. They had something like 140 garage sales going on the entire day, I whipped up a little circuit of them using google maps (I discovered that you can have a maximum of 25 locations on one map, only goes to Y). Me and Helen were supposed to go, but she ended up working, so I got up at 8:30, whipped up the map, and went hunting for two hours, then drove her to work and then returned for more yard sale hunting.

I got a couple sweet things. I got some fabric for random uses, a bookshelf, some plant stands and a couple pots, and a coast strawberry plant. There was a lot of stuff. After I picked up Helen, I took her back to the first place I went to, which was this woman selling a bunch of stuff because she was moving to Morocco, I grabbed a couple organizing bins from her and Helen found a really kick ass backgammon set with glass panels in wood frame. I took her to pegasus pizza where we had some really tasty pizza. While driving back we spotted another garage sale so we stopped there. I found some bindings that Helen could use on my spare board, so we grabbed them. I also spotted an Atari 2600 which I almost bought (had been reserved).

My room now looks a lot better since I put the bookshelf in, I unpacked 3 of the boxes I hadn’t unpacked yet (still have one buried in the closet) and we discovered that I had an outlet above the dresser. For the past 6 months or so me and Helen had been wondering why they didn’t put an outlet up there. Well it had been there, I just had a box sitting in front of it for the past 6 months or so.

I’ve also decided to start a little fruit/veggie/herb garden too. I’ve currently got Cucumber, basil, strawberry, and tomato. As you can see, I have no idea what I’m doing. I used a really cool little soda crate I got from a garage sale for the plant bed. I’ve since moved the tomato plant to a larger pot that Ann gave me when she and Cal found out I was starting my own garden.

So far, I’m not very good. For some reason I had figured that the recent rain was enough, so the leaves near the bottom of the tomato plant starting going yellow. I moved it to the big pot and since then it’s doing a lot better. Before it was sorta leaning to one side, not it’s growing really strong and straight up. Someone from something awful linked me a bunch of pdf’s for each of the plants I’m growing, so I’m reading them and learning how to care for them all. The native coast strawberry plant in it’s own little pot doesn’t bear fruit, it’s sorta there for play I guess. I haven’t quite figured out what I’m going to do with it. Probably have another little garden for random play.

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I finally reinstalled Kubuntu from KDE4 RC. It was pretty much broken to all hell and I hated it. KDE3 is working a lot better, but I’m still getting crashes :/

I also realized that I should really start backing my config files, as I had to setup samba all over again at least 3 times, which really sucked. So without further ado, here’s another random how to:

Configuring Samba for Public Access

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