Post #220: Crash, boom ,bang, logout

So I was doing these database searches of crystal structures because it seemed like a handy thing to do on a Monday afternoon since nothing else really awoke my interest. But oh no. The stupid programs kept crashing every time I was about to get things like in good enough shape to save. And it's not like they crashed in the windows sort of way that you sort of just have too much going on and thus nothing works. I totally did not have too much going on and the program would just disappear. And to top this all off the computer also logged me off with no warning right in the middle of it. It was this quite old Linux computer. I think I am cursed when it comes to Linux. I mean windows machines are supposed to crash once in a while but it has only ever happened to me like a few times with my old computer like five years ago. But to count the number of times a Linux machine has just crashed on me is almost the same as dividing the times I've used them by two. Now I've been told that "they don't crash" but I just don't buy it. Granted the machine I was using did not crash in a windows sort of way but by logging me out it might as well have. And I have gotten what I call "the white screen of death" on that computer a number of times when logging out and had to manually restart it. So to sum it all up - no database searches successfully acquired.

Little less than a month till I leave for Germany. No new news about that I guess. It may still not have really hit me what going there will mean like evening-wise. Like what the heck am I going to do with all the time I have no-one to hang out with. Read more books I guess. Or work more.