Tonight
Areas of blowing snow. Snow...then a chance of snow overnight. Snow accumulation 2 to 4 inches. Lows near 15. Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph becoming north 5 to 10 mph overnight. Chance of snow near 100 percent. wunderground.com

I think Flickr's going all haunted and I-love-bees-like. Cat pictures tiled all over the page. A big dump of error/status strings with

// // tunablaster: ENGAGED // all string outputs are defined in the object declaration and contained in the format_strs...

at the beginning. That or my laptop's going wonky... or I'm asleep and dreaming about ( Read more... )

For the record, I'll probably be quite a bit more active in my Flickr account. I've joined a couple groups, posted a few old photos, put down $25 for the Pro account. New pix are on hiatus pending less completely awful weather. Recent old pix are on hiatus pending computer repair. If you're on, bounce a message.

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Okay, first things first. Before I go off blowing a big wad of money on a new proc and mobo, I suppose I ought to look at things a bit more systematically. Considering that most of the soda did fall onto the video card, and I haven't tried it with a different video card (that's one thing I don't have a spare of), I suppose I should go to CompRenew ( Read more... )

My weekend was going so well, up until about half an hour ago. I was sitting at the computer, watching a DVD, when I reached to grab my pop (a Sierra Mist in a Wendy's cup). The lid popped off, the cup collapsed, and I poured pop all over myself. Some of it also managed to find its way into the exhaust pipe for the CPU fan on my computer. The fan ( Read more... )

After one year of learning how to sing, I finally have a stereo in my car. (Void where prohibited or until stolen.) I even got an upgraded model that plays WMAs and has an auxillary audio jack on the front. First song: Papas Fritas - Vertical Lives.

Now I just have to start cataloging all my music again.

I'm having one of those weeks which, although it's not joyous enough to lead one to spontaneous musical numbers, is enough of a consistent series of good events to make me wonder when I'll be jolted back awake by the sound of my alarm clock.

• The car still works! The new battery still works!
  
• Interesting development in the car stereo department. Some ( Read more... )

Grumble-grumble. The Christians are getting louder ( Read more... )

Turns out they datestamp all their batteries. It was a defective battery, and it's been swapped out. Keep on truckin', one more year.