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wish-list meme
* Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of ten holiday wishes [focus seems to be on yourself]. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Jenny/Giles icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for $HOLIDAY is a new car/computer/house/TV.")
* If you wish for real-world things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you. [My email address is in my profile. My physical address is in the phone directory in the city given in the profile.]
* Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread. [N.B. The link to the original post has long since been lost, so I don't know whose this is.]
Step Two:
* Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
* If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use -- or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free -- do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf and to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not -- it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
Not in any particular order:
- A copy of Wizards and Warriors on DVD.
- Ginger bread or cookies or similar with lots of ginger.
- A miniature (25mm scale) for my current D&D character, colored/painted. (The character is a sorceress with a particular affinity for fire who does not think a bikini is appropriate adventurer garb. Sword ok due to a couple levels of paladin. A real bonus would be also representing the owl familiar.)
- A copy of The Little Prince in Hebrew.
- A long, thorough massage.
- For someone to come over, partition the hard drive, install Linux on the other partition, and make it work with all the peripherals, so this wouldn't be a Windows-only box.
- For a dear friend to have a healthy baby in a couple months.
- To meet more of my online friends.
- For my husband to be more fond of cats.
- Normal vision. (Ok, there had to be one impossible thing here. :-) )
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But all that said, I'd be happy to hear recommendations for Linux versions; there are several out there and I have no basis for choosing among them. What are the relevant factors to consider?
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When I installed SuSe 8.something on my main box, it did the partitioning for me. Most distros do that now. I have a laptop partitioned for Windows98 and whatever Linux distro I feel like testing, and I have never had a problem with repartitioning when necessary. (If you try to install Windows after Linux, Linux is gone. If you install Windows first, Linux doesn't touch it unless you tell it to.)
You might want to try a live cd- it boots from the disk and never affects what's on your hard drive. It's a great way to test out a distro. I'd be glad to send you some.
(Disclaimer: Distros vary. Your experience may be unique.)
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When I installed SuSe 8.something on my main box, it did the partitioning for me. Most distros do that now.
That's handy. The RedHat distribution we have says "first you have to partition your drive, but if you have NT that's dangerous" and I have Win2k, so since they didn't give enough information for me to figure out what the issues are, I stopped there.
You might want to try a live cd- it boots from the disk and never affects what's on your hard drive. It's a great way to test out a distro. I'd be glad to send you some.
I didn't realize you could run from a CD without actually installing. I'd love to try one out!
I have a 1.7 GHz machine with 256M memory -- not current but not ancient and venerable either.
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I'll be in Rockville, Maryland, 2 or 3 times in the first half of next year. Assuming the scheduling works out, you are hereby invited to come down and spend Shabbat in my parents' house (kosher home, shomer shabbat, easy walking distance from at least 4 shuls [O/C/C/Sefardi]), and go to a gaming party at
For the weekend, I'll lend you my sister's copy of The Little Prince in Hebrew.
I'll even bake you Kosher ginger cookies at the same time. :-)
Rockville, MD
Re: Rockville, MD
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Rockville looks like about a 4-hour drive, so that could actually work. Let me know dates when you have them please? And maybe we could bop over to Silver Spring sometime between Shabbat and departure to say hi to that contingent (or lure them to Rockville).
(Sefardi? I've never been to a Sefardi service; that would be neat.)
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(And I'd like to meet you in person too. Hopefully it'll work out one of these days...)
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I've had chocolate-covered ginger and it's fabulous stuff. Chocolate and ginger -- what's not to like? :-) I think the best things you can do with chocolate all involve wrapping it around something else, actually, usually fruit; a friend once got me chocolate-covered dried apricots and they were wonderful. And, of course, I'm a sucker for chocolate-covered cherries. I don't know if we really want to generalized to chocolate-covered things-that-grow (chocolate-covered broccoli? um, probably not), but ginger is solidly on the list. :-)
One of these days you and I will get to the same con or something. That'd be great!
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Ooh, Penzey's. I'll be curious to hear what you get. They're going to be opening a branch in Boston sometime soon; hopefully I'll be able to visit.
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Re: 5, you need to come out here. We have Dr. Jane/James.
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I suppose I shouldn't say "impossible", but rather "technology not invented yet". Lens implants would go a long way toward fixing my problems, except for two things: first, I was born with cataracts so my lenses were removed when I was a child (and implants assume replacing an existing lens), and second, I have glaucoma, meaning there's weird interocular pressure stuff to take into account. The latter is the reason that the only kind of contact lenses I can wear is daily-wear soft -- and those can't give me a full correction even if you ignore the bifocal problem, because my astigmatism is too strong.
Net result: with glasses I can correct to about 20/40, but I'm very sensitive to distortion and extremes of light, I need bifocols to read (and placing those correctly is, apparently, finicky), and of course peripheral vision is limited. I'm currently wearing glasses that are about eight years old because the two more recent attempts to make glasses for me ended in failure. I can tell I need an adjustment to my prescription, but... Well, we'll see; I now have a referral to a very good optician who will, I'm told, spend all the time he needs on the exam to get the prescription written exactly right, eliminating one variable.
I'm very grateful for most of the genetic material that came from my father's side of the family, but it's a pity it came packaged with weird vision problems. Nothing's perfect. :-)
Re: 5, you need to come out here. We have Dr. Jane/James.
Indeed, if I ever have the opportunity, I would love to schedule some time with the good doctor. (Yay! I avoided the need for a pronoun! :-) )
With love