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Jul. 23rd, 2006 10:07 amI'm trying to convince myself to go into work today. This is made harder by the fact that there is no actual incubation or culture that needs taking care of today. Granted, it will be blissfully empty.
On the other there are stories to beta, stories to write, laundry to do, apartment to put to rights, and food that needs cooking.
Decisions, decisions.
OY! Also a letter of reference that I HAVE to type today. And then hand in tomorrow (can take my wonerful committee form where it belongs while I'm at it).
No, I don't know why I'm using strange expletives. I'd also like the english accent in my head to stop any time now.
I was very upset last night when I finished cooking my dinner and then my swedish pancake refused to come out of the pan. I haven't had this happen since I broke down and bought some crisco and I did grease it. *growls* We'll make another attempt at prying it out today, but somehow I doubt a cold pan will make it easier.
Oooh, parents computer is FRIED. It's been dying a long slow death for a while but every time they took it to computer shop, it would act fine so they got told like me that it was probably a peripheral that was incompatible. Blue screens of death continued and it would take forever and a day to do anything (sound familiar?) Yesterday it finally went -- won't start -- hangs on the "please choose one: normal, last good config, safe etc". Mom had already decided to buy a new one, but she'd been hopeful she'd be able to get stuff off of it. Told her she can see if computer store can get anything off, but I'm not real hopeful. It's obvious the drive was bad at this point for whatever reason and she'd have to hope and pray that the data wasn't corrupted as well. Plus she's inordinately worried that she'd bring a virus or something w/ all the files. *shrugs* I don't know how much of my dad's work stuff is critical or not. I did back stuff up for her back at Xmas but the stupid flash drive insists that it wants a password even though I didn't tell it to password protect itself. Stupid bloody staples crap. Anyway, she's getting a moderately expensive Dell desktop since she believes what she read in a computer column that 19 inch flat screen monitor is easierr on the eyes etc than her CRT one. *rolls eyes* In reality, they both just need their reading glasses updated or to break down and get trifocals already.
My mind keeps hashing out a post on world events but my body seems to want to shut down whenever I try to do it. Dunno if I'll get to it or not. I really can't believe that six years ago I thought there wouldn't be too much of a difference between Bush and Gore because the presidency doesn't inherently have all that much power. And yes, don't jump on me, I'm aware that Bush technically has nothing to do w/ Israel andn Lebanon. Still, I'd like a time machine and a REAL recount to test the theory with.
On the other there are stories to beta, stories to write, laundry to do, apartment to put to rights, and food that needs cooking.
Decisions, decisions.
OY! Also a letter of reference that I HAVE to type today. And then hand in tomorrow (can take my wonerful committee form where it belongs while I'm at it).
No, I don't know why I'm using strange expletives. I'd also like the english accent in my head to stop any time now.
I was very upset last night when I finished cooking my dinner and then my swedish pancake refused to come out of the pan. I haven't had this happen since I broke down and bought some crisco and I did grease it. *growls* We'll make another attempt at prying it out today, but somehow I doubt a cold pan will make it easier.
Oooh, parents computer is FRIED. It's been dying a long slow death for a while but every time they took it to computer shop, it would act fine so they got told like me that it was probably a peripheral that was incompatible. Blue screens of death continued and it would take forever and a day to do anything (sound familiar?) Yesterday it finally went -- won't start -- hangs on the "please choose one: normal, last good config, safe etc". Mom had already decided to buy a new one, but she'd been hopeful she'd be able to get stuff off of it. Told her she can see if computer store can get anything off, but I'm not real hopeful. It's obvious the drive was bad at this point for whatever reason and she'd have to hope and pray that the data wasn't corrupted as well. Plus she's inordinately worried that she'd bring a virus or something w/ all the files. *shrugs* I don't know how much of my dad's work stuff is critical or not. I did back stuff up for her back at Xmas but the stupid flash drive insists that it wants a password even though I didn't tell it to password protect itself. Stupid bloody staples crap. Anyway, she's getting a moderately expensive Dell desktop since she believes what she read in a computer column that 19 inch flat screen monitor is easierr on the eyes etc than her CRT one. *rolls eyes* In reality, they both just need their reading glasses updated or to break down and get trifocals already.
My mind keeps hashing out a post on world events but my body seems to want to shut down whenever I try to do it. Dunno if I'll get to it or not. I really can't believe that six years ago I thought there wouldn't be too much of a difference between Bush and Gore because the presidency doesn't inherently have all that much power. And yes, don't jump on me, I'm aware that Bush technically has nothing to do w/ Israel andn Lebanon. Still, I'd like a time machine and a REAL recount to test the theory with.