Though Mac OS continues to resist being installed on my Macbook (sigh), I have installed Ubuntu on it now, which is less likely to make me go insane than the XO, since the screen is not tiny and not designed for human eyes and the hardware can actually run more than one tab in Firefox at a time, without crashing horribly. I might even be able to run music!

I still have a ways to go before functionality is fully restored, of course, but I am reasonably confident I’ll do fine more or less indefinitely now. If you have any suggestions for optimizing Ubuntu please send them my way!

But that’s not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about the tacos the talented Rachel Mercer made this evening (they were pretty much wonderful and there is not a lot else to say about them, because I am not a food person, but man I have missed eating good tacos), and the board and card games we played. It was Settlers of Catan, which I have previously discussed (I won) and a game called BurnRate, in which you are a company in the .com boom, trying to hemorrhage money slower than everyone else, which is ridiculously fun. We won, but relatively narrowly, and I credit it to everyone not knowing the rules more than skill.

Catan was all skill, of course.