Apparently my installation of Movable Type has suffered it’s first truly major glitch since I started using it: all my comments are gone. No idea why. Maybe I’ve been hacked. *shrug*
People keep telling me to upgrade to the newest version of MT, but they don’t understand how many blogs and users I’ve got – I’d have to buy the corporate version and I just haven’t had a hundred bucks to throw at goblinbox.com lately. But with the comments problems I guess I may have to, just for peace of mind.
I’ve spent much of the past several hours at Apple Discussions – iTunes for Windows digging through the posts for info on how to make my downloading life easier. The FAQs I read today imply that iPods can’t happily sync with two copies of iTunes, so I guess downloading purchased material at work will always mean I have to bring the files home and import them before I can get them on the damn iPod.
Earlier today, I bought about 10 random tracks from iTunes – mostly old R&B/soul and jazz stuff I used to have on vinyl way back in the day and couldn’t not buy the minute I saw it: Tell Me Something Good (Rufus & Chaka Khan), I’ll Be Around (The Spinners), Skylark (George Benson), It’s Your Thing (The Isley Brothers), You’re Still A Young Man (Tower Of Power). And so on.
Anyway. It’s icy out, so my phone line’s pissed off and I’m connected at 26.4 Kbps. It takes a LONG damn time to download an entire song at 26.4 Kbps. The reason I’m trolling the boards at Apple is simply so that that I’m sitting here and I know the instant I get disconnected.
Sigh.
Brett and Joe are downstairs playing GTA and saying foul things to each other. (They talk SO dirty to each other, it’s all penis stuff I try not to listen to. If I didn’t know for an Absolute Fact that they both like girls I’d seriously wonder! I mean, really, how much can you talk about someone else’s dick? I don’t believe I’ve ever threatened to smack a girlfriend’s… nether region… with a flyswatter during the course of normal Sunday afternoon banter!) They’re drinking Budweisers and Joe’s been eating the leftover holiday fudge from a tupperware in the fridge.
Around noon, I made those red headed boys some breakfast. Steak and eggs. No biggie, eh? Apparently I created a culinary MASTERPIECE and had the great satisfaction and joy of listening to them both moan and carry on about HOW FUCKING GOOD this STEAK IS!!! for about ten minutes. (I sauteed, over high heat, a whole sliced onion in butter, then threw in two steaks covered in salt & pepper and slapped a lid on. Later I turned the steaks. Finally I threw in a quarter cup of cheap-ass salted cooking wine and let the liquid boil off, and served this miracle of dead flesh with hash browns and eggs sunnyside up.) You’d think I was the goddess of breakfast steaks! They BOTH offered me a bite so I’d know what I’d made them!
How fucking cute is that? Seriously. Dude.
Ooh, Skylark is almost downloaded. I should be able to listen to it, oh, FORTY MINUTES or so. *rolling eyes*
I think I’m gonna abandon my watch on the ol’ dial-up connection and go see what there is to make those boys for dinner.
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Last night we went to bed early. (If that’s not a euphemism for “got laid,” I don’t know what is!) I was asleep by eight, probably.
I woke up at midnight, thirsty as hell.
Stella had somehow gotten shut in the future living room and her whining had woken Brett up half an hour after I’d settled myself before the fire with a cheesy book and a bottle full of water. I let her out, confused at how she’d even gotten in there – the door was closed and latched and there was a box in front of it – and Brett went back to sleep.
I read more and quaffed my water. You know you’re dehydrated when you can drink 32 ounces of water before you have to pee. But at least I’d felt thirsty!
I’ve been trying really hard to drink enough water every day. It’s taken a couple of months, but now I actually get thirsty again, for the first time in a couple of years, I think.
Apparently when you’re chronically dehydrated, your thirst reflex stops working. You wander along simply not realizing you’re desperately thirsty, and your body spends all its time in a drought, trying to make do.
I’ve also rediscovered something I used to know but had forgotten: if you get up and have a glass of water first thing in the morning, it really gets the elimination cycle rolling for the day. The horrific constipation is gone since the miscarriage (thank God), but I’ve never been what you’d call terribly regular.
We all need much more water than we typically drink. Being dehydrated can contribute to all kinds of chronic pain and other malfunctions.
What surprizes me most, I guess, is how much water I had to drink and for how long before I started to get thirsty for water again! I used to be so good at staying hydrated, and somehow I just… quit doing it. I got to the point where I never really wanted water, and would suck down an obligatory glass or two every now and then, but I’d actually gotten to the point where I no longer preferred it to other beverages! What the hell was I thinking?!
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I never would have bothered blowing up the Jeep if I’d only paid some attention to Weather.com today:
… WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT…
A MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT WITH AROUND TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH ICE ACCUMULATION EXPECTED. THE ACCUMULATION OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET… WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS… ESPECIALLY ON UNTREATED SURFACES.
ALONG WITH THE FREEZING PRECIPITATION… DENSE FOG WILL LIMIT VISIBILITIES UNDER A HALF MILE AT TIME.
Joe: Daphne told me Adie’s blog is a fuckin’ riot but I haven’t been reading blogs lately.
Me: Yeah, basically it’s all yer ex-bitches. Dude, I really like most of your exes, on the Internet anyway!
Joe: It’s embarrasing. At least there isn’t a board—
Me: I’ll make one! I’ll add a “JOE’S EX-BITCHES” section to Rants—
Joe: —no, no, no! I’ll die!
Me: —and we can all hang out there and NOT TALK ABOUT YOU! *laugh*
Joe: *groan* Don’t you dare.
Me: We’ll have to find more girls though—
Joe: —maybe I can find some new ones. *pause* Yeah right.
Me: As long as they’re board-worthy—
I thought it was just roos, but apparently it’s all pseudo-conscious hippie freaks everywhere!
“There are so many ‘aware’ consumers carefully reading labels and making proclaimations about the product in their hands–to the air, if they’re alone. They won’t get out of your way if you just need that one carton of chicken stock behind them, they just stand there all doped up on anti-depressants and Valerian and wrapped in fleece and natural fibers and stare at you like you requested a kidney if you ask them to please step aside.”
Read the most wonderful rant ever, Why I Hate Whole Foods, from Rants & Raves on craigslist.org.
If you, like me, can’t run iTunes on, say, your WORK COMPUTER, but you need to get to yer tunes, then check it: iPod Music Liberator 2.7 byZelek Software. Meep!
… WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT…
FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON… AND CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY BEFORE CHANGING TO SNOW WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH ARE EXPECTED… ALONG WITH SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 4 INCHES. IN ADDITION… NORTHEAST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH… COMBINED WITH THE SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATION ON TREES AND POWER LINES… COULD RESULT IN CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE AND POWER OUTAGES.
…DES MOINES IA-HENDERSON IL-HENRY IA-JEFFERSON IA-VAN BUREN IA- WARREN IL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF… BURLINGTON… FAIRFIELD… KEOSAUQUA… MONMOUTH… MOUNT PLEASANT… OQUAWKA
… WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAVENPORT HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING.
FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON… AND CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY BEFORE CHANGING TO SNOW WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE… ALONG WITH SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 4 INCHES.
IN ADDITION… NORTHEAST WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH… COMBINED WITH THE SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATION ON TREES AND POWER LINES… COULD RESULT IN CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE AND POWER OUTAGES.
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Woke up this mornin’ and the world was covered in ice. It’s slippery and nasty out there. I’m inside with a fire roaring, listing crap on eBay for Brett. I am not looking forward to driving to town tomorrow morning!