VirtualBox installed.
Virtual machine set up.
Ubuntu-MATE installed (took ages).
Installed Spotify and played some STFU.

I'm only slightly tempted to run Wine in the VM and then get a Windows program working in it. But that would be silly, wouldn't it?

Meanwhile, I feel the need to install elementary and OpenSUSE and, and, and.... Just for the fun of it. I'm heading towards a pertition with Peppermint 6 to match the netbook.

But Ubuntu-MATE might be what's needed on the old desktop.

And, yes, I'm avoiding the fiddly bits of my knitting by installing different flavours of Linux. I have rehemmed my red skirt today, and made soup, and a pot roast.

[ Interestingly, my dear Dragon didn't want to recognize "nag", preferring to ask to be liked. ]

So here's the thing. I've a set of notes to finish, some questions to answer, a short essay thing to write, and the entire assignment to submit. But, despite the deadline that's still impending rather than looming, I know I'll fritter away the time reading LJ and suchlike.

Time for drastic action. No LJ comments and certainly no new posts until I've knocked at least one thing off the list. Then a little chance to post. Repeat ad nauseum.

If you catch me commenting, or worse actually posting an entry, please ask me if I have first finished one of the items on my list of things to do. Shame and nagging work where my better nature fails. (And M submitted two assignments yesterday, so I feel an urge to compete.)

Of course, without some form of electronic surveillance, you'll never know if I'm actually working during any period of silence ;-)