This first week of class I explored the Linux/Unix environment to a basic degree, with the help putty.exe, which fixed that strange virus I have on my computer, Winders…Windows? Something like that. If anything significant resulted from this experimentation it was a budding desire to try Linux as an operating system. As to why this is significant, well what else could I hope to achieve from this class than to use the desired material in my later life? I also explored and familiarized myself with the Lab46 website, IRC, and repository. I customized my Opus, made my introduction, such as it is, and did some other small things. I also attempted to work my way through Unix for the Beginning Mage, which was a mire of witchcraft, foreign concepts, and strange words, like mkdir. Many concepts from the text I am confused about, and there was enough that only a week of practice has left most of it in, let's call it, volatile memory. With continued use and fourteen weeks of time, I'm confident that most of it will be understood. So really, my only challenge for this course is the course itself. That is both a difficult and an easy challenge. On the one hand, it is an entire course, lots of material that will be difficult to learn. On the other hand, however, I am taking the course, which is designed specifically to teach me the material effectively, and with a teacher who I have had referenced quite a few times as effective himself.