I've got a computer again! YAY!

I'm very annoyed at Microsoft for not making it possible to format your own hard drive. Instead I had to have it done by professional-type folk (who presumably just had to take out the hard drive and plug it into a computer from which they could do their business).

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I got a free book (Telephone Ringing in ( Read more... )

My ears are still popping. That is, they pop just a little bit every now and then, most recently this morning. They didn't completely pop on the descent Monday, and they've been taking a distressing amount of time getting around to it ( Read more... )

Ithaca was pretty nifty. I would post more detail, but I'm sick (so is froggy_dear) so my brain doesn't want to focus. Got sick two days ago somehow -- which means I was sick on the plane ride home. That wasn't fun. Neither was barely being able to make connecting flights. In the future, O'Hare will be avoided if at all possible. But other than that, it ( Read more... )

Hey everybody! Two weeks until froggy_dear's berfday! Buy her presents!

My parents sent one of the boxes of books we had to leave behind. Yay! How is it that a 14x14x12 inch box filled with books only costs $13.54 to ship halfway across the country? Media Mail rocks my socks. Why don't online stores use it?

Now, I must upgrade my Library Thing account so that I can add the new arrivals. Hum, I'll need some money ( Read more... )

My parents sent me a small wad of cash with a Birthday card. And even though I'm broke (to the point where I'm trying to decide if I should drop Mountain Dew cold turkey or ease myself off), you can't spend Birthday money on things like gas and food. So I bought Ratchet & Clank (Froggy's playing right now -- I've spent four or five hours playing ( Read more... )

As froggy_dear already mentioned, we saw a little bunch of famous people play with Robyn Hitchcock last night. For the second half of the show he was joined by an almost-R.E.M. back up band (we couldn't figure it out for sure that they were who they were until google searching pictures of them (their full names were never mentioned on stage)): the drummer, ( Read more... )

froggy_dear is out shopping right now. This is, I believe, the fourth time that we have been apart for more than ten minutes since moving here. Two of the other times were when I was interviewing at Best Buy (oh, I interviewed for a job at Best Buy -- you see, I don't seem to be qualified for anything better), and she was shopping in the same mall. The ( Read more... )