Over Christmas, I’d fallen out of the physio exercise habit, and last week I really paid for it. The knee was sore, stiff, and seemingly getting worse. I started up on the regular exercise regimen again, and it’s doing so much better that I can’t really believe it. I won’t be running down the street any time soon, but at least I feel like I’m walking normally. Stairs are still a trouble spot, but I know that’ll get better as the strength comes back to the knee.

Then last night I screwed up the xbox a little bit, and spent a good chunk of the evening undoing my screwup. At the end of the night, I realized that I had to fsck my backup filesystem because there were a few minor problems with it, and then everything went smoothly. I probably would have fixed it more quickly if I hadn’t been so eager to try and replace it with a different version. As it stands right now, it’s still running fine, it’s just Xebian, and I’m not very familiar with the debian toolset, so it takes longer to do things than it should. I’m much more comfortable with Gentoo, so I think the next time I take a week off, I’m going to try and install that on there instead. It makes sense to run the same distro on the frontend and the backend anyway, and once it’s set up it should be virtually zero maintenance the same as the Xebian version is right now. I suspect there’s a new version of MythTV coming out soon, and as it stands right now, I wouldn’t be able to upgrade because my xbox doesn’t play nice with the debian repositories (I think it’s an X.org issue - specifically that it doesn’t work on the “new” XBoxes without a lot of tlc.)

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Now the man that puts the ‘you’ in impr-you-vment!” - Troy McClure