One of the side effects of converting (and cherry picking) all my music to mp3 is it makes me realize how much I miss having music in my life - after all, it pretty much used to be my dominant motivating factor for way too many years.

I probably should do something about it...realistically I probably won't.

This random musing blamed on Planet ( Read more... )

Foolish creature that I am, I made the mistake of going "that could be fun" when bitogoth mentioned a 5K run she was signing up for. Pain and suffering unimaginable awaited ( Read more... )

bitogoth is teh ev0l. For my birthday she got me an 8G mp3 player. So I've started the long process of converting my CD collection to mp3s. I've gotten through about 50 CDs so far - mostly because I'm cherry picking songs rather than just ripping the entire CD (largely because I've got way more music than will fit on the player). I don't even want to ( Read more... )

Okay, sure, I was one of the two people the Clueless Canoe formed around but this is a bit heavy-handed for the whole 'keeping me in the dark' thing:

http://www.earthhour.org/

So about a week ago my hard drive hacked up a lung (though it looked surprisingly like a cat fur tumbleweed, but I digress). Tech support just finished installing the new hard drive and started the re-installation of XP.

Now? Its time to play "Update! Update! Update!"

I live such an exciting life...

I'm marrired ( Read more... )

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/96f0/?cpg=wnrdf

Bitogoth and I went down to visit the likely site of our wedding and reception today. Assuming we get off our butts and commit to the place, we'd actually be sending out invites soon...

After a lovely dinner out at the Melting Pot, I asked bitogoth to marry me - she said yes :)

And no, we don't have a date set yet.

Got back from a week at Yellowstone last week and have spent most of this week laid low with a nasty stomache bug. *blearg ( Read more... )