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This is what I do when I have nothing else to do.
Let's see.
+ Back from hermitage thingie. Was awesome but still full of modern distractions (weather band radio! regular radio! mini fridge!). But still, a beautiful cabin on the shores of a lake ruled by pelicans. The nuns left me happily alone. I'd recommend it to anyone. I came away with lots of poetry seedlets and the start of a short story. I may have stolen the premise of the latter; it's familiar but I can't yet place it.
+ On the way down was stuck in traffic for an hour due to an accident full of BEES that apparently was newsworthy enough to be covered by both the BBC and CNN. The bee-part wasn't as dramatic as it sounds, there were maybe only 5-7 boxes on the road, maybe a hivesworth in the air. The two cars involved were more distressing -- they were balled up like tinfoil, I couldn't even distinguish normal car parts. And the fact that the firemen were spraying the bees with something that looked like foam. Poor bees. Should have sprayed the at-fault jerk driving the semi.
+ I can actually use internets on my crap pre-pay phone. Sort of. I can log into Gmail, browse reddit, browse Wikipedia and search iGoogle. I can't really log in to many sites beyond various email sites and twitter, but still. I've had this phone for two years and this is still news to me. I tried it once when I first got it, and it wouldn't let me get past their "RINGTONES GAMES CELEB NEWS!!!" in-house site. Of course, with its cutting-edge WAPish browser and 1"X2" screen, I won't be using it much. But damn, I am sort of impressed with my little two year cheapo flip phone.
+ My laptop is dead. As it is still under warranty, I'll send it in for a free replacement, but the meantime is going to suck. It makes me extra sad because I had some data I really would like to pull off of it. I was ready to take it into the local better-than-best-buy computer shop to see what they could do for recovery, but they would have done exactly what I've already done, and anything beyond plunking it in an external enclosure could run me into the high hundreds.
+ I've started imagining that a single supervillain is behind all the evils and generally bad news in the world. It helps when the news is filled with stories about Icelandic volcanos, underwater oil geysers and the barely-foiled plan to unleash of millions of bees.
This is what I do when I have nothing else to do.
Let's see.
+ Back from hermitage thingie. Was awesome but still full of modern distractions (weather band radio! regular radio! mini fridge!). But still, a beautiful cabin on the shores of a lake ruled by pelicans. The nuns left me happily alone. I'd recommend it to anyone. I came away with lots of poetry seedlets and the start of a short story. I may have stolen the premise of the latter; it's familiar but I can't yet place it.
+ On the way down was stuck in traffic for an hour due to an accident full of BEES that apparently was newsworthy enough to be covered by both the BBC and CNN. The bee-part wasn't as dramatic as it sounds, there were maybe only 5-7 boxes on the road, maybe a hivesworth in the air. The two cars involved were more distressing -- they were balled up like tinfoil, I couldn't even distinguish normal car parts. And the fact that the firemen were spraying the bees with something that looked like foam. Poor bees. Should have sprayed the at-fault jerk driving the semi.
+ I can actually use internets on my crap pre-pay phone. Sort of. I can log into Gmail, browse reddit, browse Wikipedia and search iGoogle. I can't really log in to many sites beyond various email sites and twitter, but still. I've had this phone for two years and this is still news to me. I tried it once when I first got it, and it wouldn't let me get past their "RINGTONES GAMES CELEB NEWS!!!" in-house site. Of course, with its cutting-edge WAPish browser and 1"X2" screen, I won't be using it much. But damn, I am sort of impressed with my little two year cheapo flip phone.
+ My laptop is dead. As it is still under warranty, I'll send it in for a free replacement, but the meantime is going to suck. It makes me extra sad because I had some data I really would like to pull off of it. I was ready to take it into the local better-than-best-buy computer shop to see what they could do for recovery, but they would have done exactly what I've already done, and anything beyond plunking it in an external enclosure could run me into the high hundreds.
+ I've started imagining that a single supervillain is behind all the evils and generally bad news in the world. It helps when the news is filled with stories about Icelandic volcanos, underwater oil geysers and the barely-foiled plan to unleash of millions of bees.