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Quote of the day
Posted Sep 21, 2000
"Crayons: melt them"
Thank you, Krissy. 
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Posted Sep 15, 2000
I really should have checked my mail more often.
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So here's the deal (Part II)
Posted Sep 14, 2000
The phone is now on. Amazingly, shockingly, yes, yes it is. When you pick up a receiver, you get a dialtone and EVERYthing like that. Makes me feel nearly normal.
Here's the problem: the modem, whether it was bored from disuse, shocked beyond belief that there was a real, live dialtoney phone line plugged into, or committed suicide months ago, decided to stop working.
I think it angered the computer, too, 'cause it doesn't notice it anymore. Maybe it was a love affair gone sour...who knows? The end result is the computer is pretty much a really big solitaire-playing machine until the problem is solved. The problem, likely, would be solved by buying a shiny new modem, a step I really didn't want to take, because I want DSL and I want it soon, and spending some money on a new modem for a month's use of the thing before I take it and gaily chuck it out the window isn't really in our budget.
Then again, food really isn't in our budget either, but we keeping buying that, too.
Enter a phone call from Mom today. We had decided, at best, we'd buy the same-model modem we already have, if we could, use the install disk, as the install disk to ours is conspicuously missing, then return the modem we'd just bought with a "Sorry, wouldn't work with our machine", which, if you want to pick nits, is technically true. I really don't think the new modem would work alongside the old, now-functioning one. I mean, if you wanted to get semantic about it, or just rationalize. Whichever.
But I seem to have digressed. Mom called this morning, modem in hand from who knows where, offering to mail it to us. Actually, no. Offering to Federal Express it to us, so we can get online from home again. Finally. Provided I get home today and the computer hasn't melted down from sheer boredom over the last six months or so.
Plus, once I can get online from home, the other job starts more or less immediately, since I'm working from home for a friend of the family.
So things are looking up.
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So here's the deal
Posted Aug 29, 2000
The phone line is still off. Resolutely off, one might say, since, apparently, the phone company has reassigned her (our) number.
Whoops.
At any rate, I've got an interesting work-from-home job offer on the table, perhaps. I'll be finding out more in the next few days, I'd hope. So I'm looking into DSL at home to temporarily circumvent the phone company and their evil billing henchmen. With any luck, if I can find a good deal, we should both be back around within...well, depending on when I figure out the confusing mess that is signing up for DSL and settle on a company that doesn't require a TWO YEAR friggin' contract. Grr.
So, as always, the answer is "Who knows? Soon, we hope." but really, it should be within a few weeks.
Really.
No, really.
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TV
Posted Jul 27, 2000
I was ranting about this somewhere else, but I feel the need to rant here instead.
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I hate watching the news. 30 minute broadcast, and all I want to see is the sports report and the weather, both of which are 8 seconds long, and the rest of the broadcast is how this old lady found her cat, and there was a fire somewhere, and blah blah...
Does anyone know why someone getting shot merits three straight days of lead story time? I mean, the crime went like this*:
First person: "I have a gun, you do not. Surrender or I will shoot you."
Second person: "No."
Gun: "BANG!"
First person: "Ha, I killed you." *runs away*
Second person: *dies*
And then precious HOURS of prime-time television, time when old A-Team episodes, or, god forbid, something INTERESTING could be aired, are taken up by reports, analysis, analysis of reports, reports of the analysis, grief managers, angry townsfolk ("He never done hurted no one, 'cepting for those kids he put in the hospital when he was repeatin' fourth grade for the ninth time"), police officials, analysis of what the police officials said, reports about the police officials, and
Screw it. Now I'm just wasting my own time worrying about it. TV bad. Read books. Books good.
*I, of course, am paraphrasing. It is likely, however, that something extremely similar has happened before.**
**Although they probably were not named "First person" and "Second person", and Kubrick willing, the gun was named "Eloise" or something.
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