Flock again

As I stated earlier in this blog, I switched over to Linux some months ago. I knew that some browsers would take some getting used to and wouldn’t be the same as their windows counterparts. In fact, I’ve gotten away from firefox and usually use a small browser called Epiphany. Indeed, Epiphany is a nice little browser, but because of the hell that is installing flash, Firefox 2 is the only browser on my system that renders flash decently.

So imagine my shock and surprise when I found out that my favorite windows browser, Flock, had a linux version. So I tried it out today and I have to say that it’s the best browser on linux. The social networking aspect of it is great too, as I’m posting this from Flock.

I’m not about to delete the browsers on my system, but I have a new default browser that doesn’t take ages to load like firefox did.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

The early sleep experiment.

I promised one of my friends that I would blog about my experience in going to bed early. In the past two weeks, I’ve been hitting the hay around 5am and waking up around noon. After joking that I would try going to bed early and blogging about the experience (My exact words: “Maybe I should try this ‘going to bed early thing’ and blog about it). So Raven, this is for you.

Timeframe: The following story is true. The names have not been changed, because no one is fucking innocent.

• 1:20am. Get a call from my wife vacationing in MD. Tell her I’m going to head to bed early. Wishes me luck and good night.
• 1:30am. Lie down in bed and cover up with blanket. Get immensely comfortable.
• 1:40am. Cannot reach an REM state due to extremely loud noise coming from my stomach region. Get out of bed and made waffles, due to the speed and simplicity of it.
• 2:00am. Attempted to fall asleep again. Succeeded.
• 3:00am. Woken up by mewing cat jumping into window. Proceeded to give Morgan (my cat) a stern glare. Morgan mews a few more times, then goes to the direction of his food dish, which is full.
• 3:30am. Finally fall back to sleep.
• 4:20am. Woke up, tossed and turned a bit before falling back to sleep 15 minutes later.
• 5:00am Woken again by mewing cat. Repeated the above. Went back to sleep.
• 5:30am Morgan finally falls asleep. Woke up very briefly to observe then went back to sleep.
• 7:30am Woke up again, tossed and turned and fell back to sleep, this time after half an hour.
• 10:15am. Woke up again to use the facilities. Tried to go back to sleep, but could not for some reason. Decided that I wasn’t extremely tired so stayed up.Especially since I needed to be up by around 12:30

Conclusion: Your cat is cognizant of your schedule and if it doesn’t coincide with his schedule, there will be hell to pay. Recommendation: Go to sleep when they do.