I started okay, what with not having the faintest idea of what to write this year.  Got up early, fired up my work computer, and wrote some outline. So far so good.

But unfortunately, my work computer, running Ubuntu, can’t detect the onboard sound card, which means I can’t listen to any music while I work. First, I tried to fix that, but I couldn’t find out what kind of motherboard I have (neither lspci nor lshw being any help). So I looked to see if I had a spare sound card. And I did, in a little bag of random hardware. But it didn’t fit in the mother board – but a spare NVidea GeForce 5600 did. That might make things a little prettier, if nothing else…

I am reminded of this XKCD comic.

So yeah. With a little luck, if I just rip the thing out again and delete my xorg.conf, all will be well again.

The day’s not actually over yet, but I don’t have much hope for this particular day.  I shall just have to do better from now on in.