The day is nearly over, and I’ve done quite a bit: took the powerless powerbook to CompUSA down in Lexington for its first warranty service. Turns-out the PB is fine, my A/C adapter’s worn-out. I have a new one on the way from Cupertino, all free of charge. Had a rather fruitless quest for a new cell phone (which I don’t need, anyway..) The Nokia 6230 is backordered in the whole region, and I don’t like the Motorola V551 very much ...
I just feel frickin’ OFF today. I don’t know if it’s my job, the crushing importance of EVERYTHING I do these days, or various other things. Called in to work to take the day off…it’s going to rain until Sunday and I just don’t really want to be around people today. I feel like a total lout… What’s bothering me? :-) Guess. Go ahead. I’ll wait…. Anyway, I’m going to try and get a few things done today and get outside and just generally try and feel a bit more like myself and a bit less like an automaton. Again…just OFF. Off-center, off-kilter…OFF.
The only thing worse than someone hollering FREE BEER in a bar is a bank saying FREE GAS to a town of yuppies and rednecks driving SUVs. Started lining-up @ 4am this morning, and they’re repeating the promotion this afternoon…
Mike Nichols’ Closer is one of two movies I hate but grudgingly respect, the other being The Rules of Attraction. Closer is the depressing tale of relationships gone wrong, fidelity ignored, and carnal lust indulged and counter-indulged to the last. This is one of those art house films that can’t quite decide if it’s brilliant or irrelevant. As it begins, we find Dan (Jude Law) meeting the displaced American, Alice (Natalie Portman). Dan’s a failed novelist who’s writing obituaries. Later, we see him publishing his first novel, as Anna (Julia Roberts) photographs him. Dan makes a pass as Anna, even as Alice is on the way to meet him at the studio. All the characters read brilliant lines with no emotions. ...
Prince Ranier of Monaco is dead. Ruler of the poshest principality in the world, husband of Grace Kelly, father of two beautiful daughters. Lived to be 81. Yale and Columbia graduate students are about to strike Well, so long as Magenta doesn’t go too, we can still have the Rocky Horror revival at midnight…
So, there I was, outside on a beautiful spring day, noting the change in the dogwoods from flowers to foliage, crusing at 95 in my GTO, Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” awash in my ears. The tranny hummed a mechanical song beneath my fingertips, comfortably loping in 6th gear. Life is good when your new house is perfect. Philip Preston (of “Preston Home Inspections” fame) had given his stamp of approval (“It’s one hell of a house, man”), with his wife/gf/squeeze’s agreement. ...
…one rather surprised competitor at the Atlanta Nat’l AutoX.
And now, a shout-out to the incomparable, Mrs. Shannon Suzanne McRoberts: Do you need interesting art for your walls?
Man, people hit about 25-27 and they just GOTTA GET MARRIED! The Barger-Fields wedding
As Promised:
So, the reality of being team lead strikes home. Four million nits to pick, people complaining, and everyone wants a piece of my time. >>sigh« On the BRIGHT side…They accepted my offer on the new house at 100 Sardula. I called the home inspector, gave my 30 day notice at my apartment (I’ll be out by May 14th), and sent off my check for house appraisal. Exciting :D
Well, it’s been about a month since I dl’ed the ROM image for the original FF1, and I just beat it tonight… Yeeha…I’m suddenly 11 years old again :-)
Dear Lord, on this sabbath day, thank you for the great gifts You bestowed upon us this weekend. First, thank you for the wonderous Spring weather, with sun from Friday afternoon straight through this evening. Also, thanks for Whitney and thank You for letting her say ‘Yes’. Thanks for guiding our house search today, and keeping us safe on the roadways. Amen.
I LOVE SuSE Linux Got to troubleshoot a problem today on our Linux box, and despite it’s nearly 3 years of age, the thing just SCREAMS. So good to be back in the Unix/Linux world where things are files, period. Everything works like a file, and the OS isn’t going down, no matter how much you beat on it. Definitely not the most user-friendly of systems, but for the professional who wants to get something done, a good SuSE box with tons of programming goodies and network utilities is hard to beat. ...
Mike (handle: Gateway), the guy whose thread got me into the GTO has another new (read: leased) car: Read All about it
1. Get the right people 2. Give them the right tools and training 3. Remove all obstacles to their work 4. Profit. … Seems to be working so far. Of course, the downside to this is what you do if you don’t have the right people.
Well, the current owner of 107 Secretariat street didn’t like my requests to fix a couple things and give us an allowance for the roof he allowed to cook off his house. My realtor told me I was being somewhat unreasonable, and maybe I was. It was a nice little house in a good area, but it scared us. A full repaint, a new roof, and repairs from general neglect would be our constant companions. ...
Diane Sawyer looks like an older version of Paris Hilton.
Pics from the last few weeks coming at ya!