There's been a definite shift in the content of my dreams lately ( Read more... )

I just read more about the crash in Charlotte here, and I have a couple of gripes, and some thoughts about why I probably have a bias against the news media. And I'm warning you that I go way off on a tangent.

( And since I am so good about cut tags, you don't have to read it if you don't want to. )

Well, the good news I suppose is that I finally put my desktop (iMac) together again, and I am using it for the first time in ages to connect to the internet.

The bad news is that the thing that motivated me to do so was that my iBook seems to have gotten fried by something (quillon thinks there might have been a power surge yesterday) and now the ( Read more... )

Welcome welcome welcome shouts to redandfiery! And thanks to mhw for giving her the invite code.

I guess now I have to avoid references to M*nt* P*th*n...

( and now, more about ME )

Today was a bit less than I hoped for, but not completely fruitless.

Bad news: still no firm apartment to move into.
Good news: some promising leads.

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I guess I get easily frustrated sometimes. I can be totally patient with a lot of things, but for some reason when it's time to "upgrade" the Taurus in me comes out. I hate it when a program that I have tweaked to do what I want it to do doesn't work anymore and I have to break in a newer version.

That happened this morning with Netscape.( If you get frustrated with people who don't understand new technology or adjust well to it, don't bother clicking here. This is definitely in the whiney rant territory. )

I usually kind of like my body. Even though it's finicky about what I feed it, and sometimes irritable with all the drugs I have to put into it, for the most part it serves me well. It's warm and cuddly. Even though I wish it had more muscle on it (my own fault, admittedly) people compliment me on it all the time.

SO WHY CAN'T I FIND JUST ONE ( Read more... )