Gollum Lives!

It’s 12.21 in the middle of the morning, and I’m tired and sleepy-eyed, I badly need to catch up with my sleep.After a long battle to get linux (unfortunately of the Fedora Bloatware variety) running properly on my box, I’ve finally found a good alternative. I’d have loved to run Slack on my box, but unfortunately the Slack folks haven’t switched over to the 2.6 kernel yet, and the 2.4 kernel simply won’t run on my machine :( So for the past few months I was forced to run that ugly beast called Fedora on my box, along with M$ crap. None of the other distros would even boot on my machine… I made the mistake of not doing my homework when I bought my motherboard – the infamous ASUS K8S-MX.

The Usual Disclaimer

From childhood, I’ve always been told to watch my tongue. With good reason, mind you. My parents always used to tell me, “If you don’t watch that tongue of yours, it’ll land you in trouble some day”. They were of course, referring to my constant complaints about how the food tasted at home, but little did they know that their words would ring true in a different way, years later!A few of my friends here in Pune have read my blog, and are curious about a phrase of my coinage – “The Most Moral State of Maharashtra”. This phrase occurs frequently in my posts, and the context of its occurrences are usually not very complimentary. Needless to say, many of my Maharashtrian friends are overcome with ire.

Which is how I came to write this short explanation-cum-disclaimer:

What a Mess!

I’m a messy guy. Which by itself is not such a bad thing, perhaps. The trouble is that my better half is an extremely organised person. They say opposites attract, which is perhaps why Isai and I are now better halves of one another – oh, wait a minute – she is my better half. I can’t say the same of myself with respect to her, though. She has no trouble waking up at some unearthly hour when the rest of the city is asleep [1], she has no trouble remembering things, and she is extremely organised and efficient in anything and everything that she does. What’s more – she doesn’t like sloppiness. Especially when the sloppiness is mine.