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The ibook
Posted Sep 2, 2002
So, on Monday, Aug. 26 instead of going back to college like I had kind of planned, I went and bought a laptop instead. It's a refurbished ibook and though I was a bit skittish at first, I've been addicted ever since. Just a full on, no holds barred, always connected on line computer geek.
Interesting tidbit. After I buy my laptop and go to work, that's the day that the Ellen Feiss story broke on NPR. I've just now gone to the website to check out her testimonial as part of the switch campaign apple is running, and she is pretty funny. It's worth checking out.
Anyway, what was I talking about? I don't know, ah, yes full on computer geek. That's me. I've networked now, courtesy ethernet, which makes it darn easy, and though I still haven't gotten my ibook on speaking terms with my old personal laserwriter, I am working on it, in fact it looks as though the solution will cost me about thirty bucks more and then I'll have it.
Hmmm. What else. Oh, my allergies were bothing me today, I get hayfever really bad this time of year and I found out that eating honey that's produced locally can build a tolerance to the pollens I'm allergic to. So I had to go the store and buy some honey. I'm sure it takes some time to build up said tolerance, but maybe by next year I'll be sniffle and sneeze, mucus and snot, free. I hope it's the case because I've been just plain miserable the last couple of days.
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My first journal
Posted Aug 29, 2002
You wouldn't believe what kind of an idiot I am. So I want to have some green beans out of a can, right? But I cannot find the can opener anywhere. I mean anywhere. And you don't realise how useful a can opener really is until you need to open a can. So I get the biggest knife I can find and manage to puncture the can and kind of dig myself an opening. Now I figure I can pour the beans into a bowland eat them out of that, only they don't pour out very well.
So now, I'm kind of getting frustrated becase, first of all there should be a can opener and second of all I really shouldn't want to eat canned green beans this badly. So I kind start prying up the top of the can with the knife, only that doesn't really work too well,so I start just jabbing the hell out of the can top and this is working pretty good. So now, I'm holding the can with my left hand, and jabbing this giant knife into the top with my right hand. Just jab, jab, jab, jab, jabjabjabjabjabjab jabjabjabjabjab jabjabjabjabjab jabjabjabjabjabjabjabjabjabjab when, jab, you guessed it, right into my left thumb.
It doesn't hurt too bad, and I pull the knife out and just sort of look at the wound, which is just a clean cut all the way down to the thumb knuckle. And I just can't believe I've done this too myself and that's when Goosh! Just a gush of really, really, red blood. So I make my way to the bathroom, bleed into the sink, and put some pressure on it.
I probably needed stitches, but the Yankees were playing Boston so I decided just to put a couple of butterfly bandages and that was it. It feels okay now. And to think I could have went to the bar to watch the game, but no I had to talk myself out of it, Stay home, I said to myself, 'save yourself a couple of bucks by eating a little something her and not buying a couple of beers.
Moralof the story: Always keep a can opener handy, or else go to the bar to watch the baseball game.
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