So I figured what the heck, I'll try this out for a while. I waste more than that on a day's worth of coffee. Way more
I followed the Ubuntu 13.10 instructions and they seemed to work like a champ... this is what I show now:
{
"version" : 80500,
{
"version" : 80500,
"protocolversion" : 70001,
"walletversion" : 60000,
"balance" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 10838,
"timeoffset" : -1,
"connections" : 8,
"proxy" : "",
"difficulty" : 1.00000000,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1385752126,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"errors" : ""
}
So not REALLY understanding what I am doing besides lending a hand, does that look alright?