Guess who dropped their laptop today and broke it? Yes, that would be me. I checked all the cables and made sure everything was well seated, and it was. Looks like I damaged the hard drive (when I took it out the its bay, it rattled. Not a good sign).

So I'm off to search on the 'net for replacements. $132 from Dell, sheesh... I'm really mad at ( Read more... )

I'm not much a poetry lover but I came across this a few months back and thought it was one of the lovliest and most sensible things I've ever read. I've even memorized a few lines that were particularly striking to me (the one about comparing yourself to others, and the entire final stanza.) Hope you enjoy it too.

Desiderata

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I sent a package from work to Japan last week, and upon pulling up the tracking number to see if it arrived, I was surprised and amused to see who had signed for the package. Maybe that's because it was misrouted and showed up a week late.

Anyway, here's a screen print:


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Not that the shuttle disintegrating in our atmosphere is funny but I found this recently and got a good laugh at the expense of CNN. The shuttle was going how fast now..??


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...then you need look no further for the answer.

You're welcome.

You Are a Glazed Donut
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This is one of the funniest things I have ever read in my life. Srsly.

If World War Two had been an online Real Time Strategy game, the chat room traffic would have gone something like this.

*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*Churchill has joined the game.*
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Check out the pumpkin I carved for Halloween. Not too bad, eh? And I didn't cut any fingers off during the process.

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Now back to your regularly schedule narcissism.

Here's another picture of me in my new car, because you know I just can't enough of myself lately. Just to switch things up a bit, I climbed in the trunk for a photo opportunity, cuz just in case you haven't caught on yet, I'm a major ham when a camera is around. (It's always the quiet ones, you know.)

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