Standing On Boxes

Got my copy of the Buffy Season 6 DVD’s from Amazon today. A lot of people are reporting damaged discs but mine look ok so far. The shipping box was crushed but the DVD case was okay.

I started watching one of my favorite episodes but it was the wrong time of day… too bright out… they need to be watched at night or in a dark room.

We have car pictures. The buggy before the accident, after, and after it was repaired. Don’t be fooled by the clean wheels. The body shop sprayed something on them before they gave it back to me.

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Does she practice or does her fake empathy/sympathy for tragedy victims come naturally?

Not as bad as Diane Sawyer’s “attack interviews” of the same people. She’s just mean.

The only morning psuedo-news person who seems to do the sympathy-interview well is Harry Smith but he rarely gets to do it. CBS would rather use one of their trio of twinkie-anchors.

I met a girl I’d like to know better… but I’m already with someone

Someone make this go away!

I can’t get this bit of song out of my head! Can’t remember the rest of the song but this won’t go away….

I just added another chapter to the fic I have over at Ikoly and I keep checking to see if anyone has “reviewed” it. Not sure why other than that is really the only way to tell if someone has read it all the way through.

Ah… fan fiction an excuse for bad writing using hackneyed plots. At least I know how to write sentences and use a spelling checker so my stuff will never be so bad that people run screaming from their computers when they read it. Or I hope so anyway .

There are the days I can roll out of bed and be at work in an hour. And then there are the days like today, where two hours isn’t enough time.

Who invented on time anyway?

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A glass of orange juice after you brush your teeth is not the best way to start your day… Ewww…

Another one of those days. Not early, not late.

There’s such a big difference between a BMW E34 (A very solid vehicle) and a Ford Focus that I’m not sure I can adequately describe it. But that’s what I have while my 530i is in the shop having the door replaced.

I’ve started adding revision pages to my fics. Things I plan on changing when I revise them. Things I’ve noticed or others have noticed. So far only “China Blonde” and “The Two” have them. (They’ve gotten the most detailed feedback of my fics so far)

I just got a replacement Thinkpad for work. My tired, old, 700MHz A20m is being replaced by a 1.5GHz T20 (Someone else upgraded and this one filtered down to me).
I’m sitting here ‘watching’ as all the important files are copied from the old one to the new one. Not a lot of stuff, around 5GB of work and misc. related files. But the new one has 4 times the disk space so that isn’t a big deal.

I’ve been thinking about the computers I’ve owned/used in the 20 years since I bought my first one:

An Atari 600XL (an 8bit computer (6502 cpu) with 16K of RAM that i added more memory to ( 48K to get to the maximum of 64K) and a floppy (no hard drive – they were a bit expensive back then for personal computers)

That was replaced by a series of Atari ST’s (16+bit 68000 CPU) (Slightly faster than the Macs of that era and a lot cheaper ( 1/10 of the cost of an equivalent Mac)) after the 600XL didn’t survive a close encounter with lightening.

I don’t remember why but my next computer was a PC. A 80486. Windows 3.1. NetBSD and then Linux when it became stable enough (this was early 90′s) I’ve still got the monitor but the computer itself was junked long ago. The pieces are still around somewhere.

That was the last/only PC I’ve ever purchased. I use them for work but my personal machines have been Macintosh somethings since.

My first PDA (still have it) was the original Newton Messagepad. It still works.

My first laptop wa an early generation Apple PowerPC Powerbook, a 5300cs. Very fragile case. Bad power connector. But it still worked with a little care.

At my first job I had a DEC pc (486+ 32Mb) with a nice 17″ monitor (A VRC16). It ran Winwos NT 3.5 while I had it. But it was mostly used as a dumb terminal replacement (With WRQ’s Reflection terminal emulation software) so I could access the real machines in the office – a small VMS cluster.

When I started working for ‘The Company’ in 1996, I still used my powerbook w/VirtualPC and Windows 95 but I also had an NEC Pentium (75MHz) that actually ran Windows NT Server for quite a while.

When I moved to a home office and started travelling for the company, I managed to get my hands on another Powerbook, an early G3. (We had a Mac software product at the time and I convinced someone that I could use a Mac.). I still “have” it (Or more accurately my boss borrowed it a few months ago and I might get it back someday.) but it was officially retired when ‘The Company’ merged with a few others and the corporate standard became Thinkpads (And we no longer had a Macintosh product. That division was sold to the people who worked in it.)

I’ve had my A20m since. I kept it when I moved from consulting to Development.

Several years ago I bought an iBook (Mac OS X) for a personal machine. And my pda is now a Sharp Zarus 5500SL (Running a version of Linux).

At this point, every computer I have could run Linux or some Unix variant (not that they do — My Alpha & VAX run VMS, my Thinkpad Windows XP. My PS2 could run Linux but why?)

The buggy now has an appointment at the body shop for a door replacement. On Monday. Hopefully it won’t take them longer than a week (the door has to be painted since I purchased one of those rare, red colored cars instead of the more common black.

There are days when I feel like writing. There are days when I need to write. And then there are the other days. Days when I just want to vegg out and read someone else’s stuff.

Unfortunately, needing to write and wanting to write are almost never the same thing.

The morning is off to a rousing start. Got up early, now it looks like I might be running late.

And Saturday and Sunday just breezed on by… weird…