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No doubt you are growing weary of my misadventures in Linux operating systems. I don’t want to burden you with stuff you don’t want to hear, but I think there are many out there who are doing the same thing, and desperate to find answers online, when they have a crisis, so I’m seriously considering a separate blog on my Linux Learning Curves. I just don’t know where to fit it in yet.

But I like to learn from my mistakes. In fact, I’m convinced that just about everything I know is because I dared to try something, and when I failed, I discovered the right and wrong way to proceed. The next time I will draw on past experiences, and make better choices. This happens over and over again in many areas of my life - and yours. Not just in computer related subjects. This principle works in social relationships, in business networking, and in any skilled profession, from art and music all the way up to being a surgeon.

Of course, we really hope the one that operates on us has had enough practice on cadavers so as not to be about to make a terrible learning mistake on our body, right?

So let me sound like a broken record and repeat what I said last week; don’t waste your suffering or your mistakes. Evaluate them, learn from them, and move onward and upward.

Just supposing you are interested, I learned this week that the installation of SuSE I did last week was flawed. I’d forgotten to set the mnt points of the partitions, which meant the system was throwing and installing everything into the root partition, which was only 3 GB and soon full. So, on Wednesday I had to re-install again. This time I got it right!

Selling Products on Consignment:

Have you ever tried selling products through regular stores on consignment?

When not solving computer problems, I have spent my morning marketing hour, at organizing my Dad’s cross necklaces by colours into a large pizza box (tray). I’ve taken inventory and made charts, etc., for recordkeeping, both of the cost of making them, and of sales.

We took a selection of 25 to a major Christian Books and Gifts store in Saskatoon. We were thrilled to find the buyer enthused and willing to take them on consignment. We can check back in a month, or she’ll call if they need more sooner. Our timing was perfect, as a previous supplier had moved, and they were right out of such necklaces.