Failing at ricing, but not entirely

It has been a while since I wrote about being inspired to start ricing my desktop again. It turns out that having 3 kids and working on the house leaves little time to invest in getting familiar with a new OS and making a pretty desktop. Some nice things came out of it however; I installed Arch (btw) for the first time and it turns out doing the base install is not as intimidating as I thought. I…