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Getting internet at my new apartment is an ongoing drama. I slept there the first time on Thursday night, on the floor, after moving things until 2am. I got up at 7:30am so I could meet the cable guy who told me my modem was no good because it was under a different name in Cox's database. So I bought a new modem and made another appointment for ( Read more... )

I drove all the way to Tim's last night to upload to-day's chapter of Boschen and Nesuko. So happy birthday Nathaniel Hawthorne--and lest you think I'm ignoring Independence Day, I'll refer to the Wikipedia entry for "Young Goodman Brown" which quotes Stephen King as saying it's "one of the ten best stories written by an American." An excerpt from ( Read more... )

Just got off the phone with a guy from my cable company who tried to get me to change from my current 40 dollar a month plan to a 106 dollar a month plan ( Read more... )

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Okay, I'm basically moved into my new place, thanks to a lot of help from my parents. There's still a lot of stuff to be transported ( Read more... )

I think I got more than four hours sleep last night, I'm not sure. Certainly not more than five. After a day spent vacuuming and dusting and moving furniture that hadn't been moved in a decade I was forcibly reminded that I have allergies. Sleeping in that room was difficult. I have no medication for allergies of any kind. The best I could do was ( Read more... )

Well, to-day's been a series of unexpected delays and little obstacles, beginning with the fact this was the third day in a row the internet has been inexplicably sluggish here. After about half an hour attempting to watch something on YouTube, I decided to go out to lunch and then maybe to a nearby Starbucks to use the WiFi there that would ( Read more... )

I hadn't actually planned on doing anything in protest of SOPA/PIPA, though I am against 'em. Actually, I haven't posted all day because my computer died yesterday--I'd opened it to put in a DVD burner Tim had given me and afterwards found the computer wouldn't turn back on. But it's fixed now, so I guess I might as well continue the black out of ( Read more... )