So much for playing with my tablet (and yes, that apparently -is- what they're calling it these days).

I've been wanting to install Linux on my laptop for several years now, and I finally got the time, clarity of mind and installation disk recommended by a friend. Not wanting to completely negate my purchase of CS's 3 and 4 (yeah yeah, bit torrent, blah blah blah I'LLLAUGHWHENYOU'REINPRISON), I'm keeping XP on the machine. To do this, I'm using GParted to repartition my hard drive.

This is all fine, good and how the smart people do it.

My friend cautioned me that the partitioning process might take some time, and GParted itself warns it may take a while. As I'm not in school, I don't have any problems with this per se. I have a month off, after all. I've got the first partioning command, eradicating one useless extra partition, merging that with the XP chuck and moving that all over on the disk, operating.

Still.

I started it the day before Thanksgiving.

So my laptop's been sort of unavailable (Not that you'd want to mess with a computer during a repartition anyway, but GParted works at bootup before Windows has a chance to start working. The plumage don't enter into it). No worries. I have a desktop PC too.

Oh, what? No, I didn't open Firefox just now, as a matter of fact. What? No, I certainly did not open two windows of it twice in a row. No, no, I've never seen these sites it seems to think I opened ever before in my life. No, no I really don't care about hot blonde 20 somethings keeping me up to date on what all the cool kids are doing.

No, she's not wearing any clothes. I think. It's hard to tell with the Playboy logo in the way.

What was I saying? Oh yes, I have a desktop PC. I have a desktop PC which of a sudden seems to be registering mouse clicks on links (which don't exist, certainly not anywhere near my cursor) to pages I've never A) seen B) want to.

Ever try drawing in Photoshop when Firefox interrupts you every 20 seconds?

IT'S NOT EASY.