T Minus 12

It's now just after 7 PM, that means that in 12 hours, OpenSuse 11.1 is released, and all hell will break loose on the OpenSuse servers.

Why am I so excited for this release? I'm not entirely sure. I was working on my server last night, trying to get it ready to be rebuilt. The storage drive died a few weeks ago, and I just got it back from repairs, and I was able to to a zero-fill on the OS drive to fix a few S.M.A.R.T. errors on that drive. I was about ready to install OpenSuse11.0 again, and realized that I had about 36 hours before I could get the latest and greatest.

I could have just as easily installed 11.0 and upgraded after the fact, but I am a firm believer of clean installs.

In other news, as an early Christmas present, I found out that I am going to be getting full-time hours at my new job- at least until January.. we will see what happens after that. It is so great to have a job that I love. I have gone from help desk support to PHP Programmer. It is the greatest thing in the world to know that all of the work I put into learning PHP and honing my skills was all FOR something besides having a constructive hobby.

Left4Dead came out in November, and I was lucky enough to be given a copy as a gift. It is such an awesome game. It is infinitely better than Team Fortress 2 (which I never really got into) and is very fast-paced. A 5 level campaign takes about 90-120 minutes to complete, and is dependent on Teamwork. If you are into FPS type games, and have NOT played L4D, I suggest getting on the bandwagon.