I've been trying to write this one for a couple weeks, but haven't been sure what to say.

Within two days, I went to two very sad, and very different, going away parties.
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OK, this isn't a journal entry per se, but does anyone have a copy of either Excel 97 or Quattro Pro? I need to import some very old Quattro Pro files into Excel for work. Excel 97 can import ".WB2" files but Excel 2000 can't.

We stayed up to watch the thunderstorm last night. Rain in sheets, the sky flashing like the paparazzi just went up to heaven, thunder you can feel in your bones, awesome stuff ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory yet, you should. It's gorgeous to look at and parts of it are funny as hell. Picture 30 duplicates of Deep Roy dancing on a classic Tim Burton set belting out a Danny Elfman rendition of a Roald Dahl poem, sounding like they're a fever dream of the Brady Bunch. A spoiled brat named Veruca has ( Read more... )

So, a quick recap of everything else we did in North Carolina with cavedwellers's family:

The flight down was fine, altough there was a 50 minute wait between when we landed in Jacksonville and when people got their luggage -- because, a put-upon employee announced from the baggage belt, "There were two planes on the ground at the same time."
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Thanks all for your kind words! In response to all of you (OK, both of you) who asked, here are all the details:
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On the evening of July 6th, on a beach on Topsail Island, cavedwellers and I got engaged!

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For the first time I've finished what could be called a home-improvement project: installing a shower door. It came out great, looks quite professional, which I know is like saying that my shoes look professionally tied but I was worried it would look like crap. It was easier and more satisfying than I thought it would be, too. Most fun was ( Read more... )

I think I'll go take a walk.