Okay, so my life probably still sucks right now, and I don't know when or if I'll be getting another playcheck from my employer, but I'm feeling better about it.
Probaly becuase I spent the whole weekend cannabalizing machines around my home office to build a new Linux Web/Dev server, hacking Perl and designing my database.
I've got a project Idea I'm working on that will require considerable computrons, and my old Packard Bell p100 that is currently being "Mr. httpd" is just too slow. It takes almost 5 second to launch the perl interpreter and mod_perl doesn't wanna work right under NT 4.0... and a CSV File Database can't do joins, and that's kind of important.
I'm also happy about this idea because I told someone about it, and just the other day he said he read something in 'Red Herring' about that very kind of thing I'm making.. they're supposedly 'the next big thing' -- for once I'm ahead of the curve.
On the downside, Red Hat 7 and it's drain-bramaged installer obliterated my MP3s... *snarl snarl gripe gripe*.. all 6,5 gigs of MP3s...