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I just got paid by PayPerPost. That puts my PayPal account over the amount I need to get a nugget of Mac shareware I’ve been looking at. I don’t know which I want most right now. It’s a three-way tie between

Posted on November 29th, 2006 under Tech. Comments: None

New band discoveries: The Bravery The Feeling Razorlight From Daily Kos: CHEERS to deaf ears. Stomping his feet and waving his hands like a…well, like a chimp, President Bush demanded that the Republican leadership take one final action as the majority: pass his unconstitutional domestic wiretapping plan. The Republican response: Nah. We’re too busy packing. [...]

Posted on November 29th, 2006 under General, Life, News. Comments: None

I frequently engage in what’s known as “shopping therapy” in some circles and in “wild spending” in others. I’ve always liked shopping for Christmas presents and never feel the unhappy stress some people do. I like shopping for other people almost half as much as I like shopping for myself. I started the first phase [...]

Posted on November 26th, 2006 under General. Comments: None

It’s Thanksgiving and I’m home. Shops and groceries are open until about 3PM today in the city. I’ll be one of the few people to hit the streets at 2PM to go to work. I have no seniority so I don’t matter and have to work Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving, and Christmas Eve. My [...]

Posted on November 23rd, 2006 under Life. Comments: None

Hollywood’s out of ideas. They keep making the same junk season after season at cost of millions and millions of dollars. There’s a reason I haven’t seen a movie at the cinema since last Christmas. I found an article in my RSS feed today that was so funny because it’s so true. From Drivl.com: 5. [...]

Posted on November 22nd, 2006 under Rant. Comments: 1

A little curly piece of plastic. Great. Kind of like cutting the wrong thing would be named after former fellow. I guess I wasn’t bending the needles in just the right way, causing them to shave the inside of the trocars a bit every time they dropped in another stitch. My apologies to those who [...]

Posted on November 21st, 2006 under Life. Comments: None

My friend from work is safety-conscious. I’m not. I’m the kind of person who walks around in a daze completely sure nothing will ever happen to me. I realise it’s stupid and hopefully, I’ll never have cause to regret it. But my friend from work is concerned that I’m so unconcerned and she’s even said [...]

Posted on November 21st, 2006 under General. Comments: None

Philadelphia Magazine put a handgun on its cover. People are shooting each other all over the city. We’re on pace to outdo last year’s homicide rate… and now they’re shooting at people I know. I got the story today. Last Monday, when driving home from work, one of the anesthesia people got shot at in [...]

Posted on November 20th, 2006 under Life, News. Comments: None

It’s been thirteen days since I was able to sleep without worrying I’d be so tired, I’d miss the alarm in the morning. It’s been thirteen days of all my brainpower being used to just stand upright and speak English. Thirteen days. Tomorrow is my first day off in two weeks and I’ll probably sleep [...]

Posted on November 18th, 2006 under Life. Comments: None

I bought an iBook laptop in the fall of 2001 just after getting back from a summer in the UK. I was tired of moving my green iMac DV everywhere I went. It cost be $1700 and I named it Grace and I loved it. It was a tiny 12″, white, deceptively rugged, and most [...]

Posted on November 16th, 2006 under Life, Tech. Comments: None

I’m tired of having one of those days. After a brutal weekend, I was exhausted yet I still had to get up early to go to federal court for jury duty. I valued my extra half an hour of sleep rather than breakfast, anyway they’d fed us at the city court I had been to [...]

Posted on November 13th, 2006 under Life, Tech. Comments: None