I'm a musician now! (sort of)

OK, I've finally decided to learn how to play an instrument... and the chosen instrument is... the harmonica!
For a few months now I've been thinking about it, and given that in my residence we have 30% of musicians and my neighbor (I mean, the guy that lives next door) has played in a band for 4 years I though Hell yeah! Why not? Bought my 10 hole diatonic harmonica ( C ) and gave it a shot!
So far, so crap. My musical abilities are lower than the Caspian sea, but I think I'm improving (yeah, I've only had it for a week, but hey....)
Anyway, I hope that in time my music will sound different than “a bike with broken breaks” as someone described it.

Conclusions on Linux

For a few years now, I've always been a bit skeptic about Linux. I always knew that they were open source, free and all that stuff, but there were always a few things that made me not wanting to install one distribution, like the eight hundred gazillion versions you have to choose from and that it will take me a hell of a lot of time to get used to it (also that I hate partitions so...)
Finally, a few months later I formated (to install windows 7) and while managing the HDD, I found this 15GB partition for recovery. Given that I have never, ever in my life used that (in any of my 2 computers) and that I am NOT gonna install vista in Spanish (hell no, the translation hurts as much as listening to a chinese saying “Me gustan los burritos”) I decided to also format that and Install the distribution I heard was most widely extended: Ubuntu 8.10
So got my laptop and prepared my body to suffer an entire 24 hours of formatting, installing (2 OS I had never installed before) and configuring. To my surprise this took like a fourth of the time I expected.
Installation was smooth, dual booting was OK. I had my brand new open source OS in my laptop. What to do now? Check the forums!
I think that thats the thing I like the most about Linux, the overwhelming amount of help you can get online. No problem I've had in Ubuntu that didn't get solved as soon as I Googled it.
Oh, another thing I'm really enjoy is the level of customization allowed, you can change every single tiny little button, image or menu to what you think is best. Windows, a little copy-pasting won't be a bad idea this time.
Overall I think Linux is great but it took me lots of hours to configure, from which I reached the conclusion that they are not made for non geeks. Really. I can't leave my home's PC with Ubuntu because I'll have to go back every 3 days to help my mum out, while any Windows version is easy to work with and installation is as simple as double-clicking a file. Linux, you have a long way to go.
UPDATE:
Ubuntu 9.04 is out, lets see the improvements!

Little update

I know I haven't posted anything in a few months but (again) I'm back!

I just came back from some meetings to become a Summer camp monitor, and yeah, had an awesome time, lots of fun, quite instructive (which I presume was the original purpose of the whole thing) and met lots of people. Awesomeness

other than that my life is still the same, same class, same people, same mornings... oh!I bought my new Eastpak Bag! And, like McDonalds, I'm lovin' it! It might have been a leetle expensive (80€!) but it was well worth it! (It kinda looks like Firas' If he hasn't changed it since IB). The thing I like the most 'bout it is the 30 year warranty... 30 years! I'll be 49 and could still have it replaced by a new one!

As soon as I finish this I'll be writing the post about my 2 month Ubuntu experience, so brb!