April 15, 2013
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The Daily News
1 Happy Monday!!!2 Like the new look? <this first part was written when all my fonts became smaller and in a different style. It looked ridiculous. I think I fixed it though. So just bear with me on the early rant.>
3 Me neither.
4 Xanga.
5 New stuff in general.
6 Last week, in the midst of all sorts of other angst, my laptop crashed.
7 I bought a new one, and couldn’t figure out how to get into Windows 8.
8 I had tons of deadlines coming at me, not the least of which is grades due the day after tomorrow, so I really didn’t have time to mess around with learning something that already works fine the way it is.
9 Don’t get me wrong.
10 I am not hostile to change, even if it seems like change for the sake of change.
11 I just haven’t had the time to fool around trying to learn something for no apparent reason.
12 I find hints that Windows 8 is faster.
13 So until I can get a handle on stuff, the DN is going to have a smaller font.
14 And dude, you don’t mess with a guy’s fonts.
15 You just don’t.
16 Moving on, Part One: I’m probably going to have to keep this one short today. I was going to work on this yesterday but on Saturday night I thought I would put together this four-seat coffee table that came with sixteen thousand tons of tape and foam.
17 By about eight o’ clock at night I looked around my living room and had a huge mess. I hadn’t been paying attention to anything but trying to unwrap all four million parts to the thing. I started putting the stuff in recycling, but the bin filled up to overflowing within seconds.
18 Modern packaging.
19 I had such a mess that I had to take knives and cut up every piece of cardboard, which took forever. The foam was lightweight beads that started flying like little fairies all through my house.
20 I spent all day yesterday cutting the stuff up, saving part numbers, and trying to get customer service when I found holes in the seats.
21 Ashley furniture. No bueno. Stay WAY away.
22 Customer service 800 number told me that they are closed on weekends.
23 Seriously?
24 In 2013 where everything is digital and 24/7?
25 <looking around>
26 Am I just getting my Bay Area on?
27 I forget that I’m living in the heart of Silicon Valley.
28 We tend to be a tad spoiled when it comes to technology.
29 Ah vell.
30 Moving on, Part Two: I think I’ll follow the lead of newspapers that are always thin on Mondays. There is a LOT of news out there, but the news in the past two weeks has been pretty horrific. I think as a responsible journalist, I’m most useful if I bury my head in the proverbial sand.
31 I just haven’t the time to go too much further today.
31 As I have often said, I have a saloon to run.
32 I think everybody would be better served if I don’t try to push it. <looking around>
33 At least my house is super clean. Amazingly I vacuumed everything up using a battery-op Dustbuster.
34 The thing almost died trying to get all the little foamette balls up. They were smaller than Dippin’ Dots, and virtually in every nook and cranny of the house. Some will remain here into the next century, that much I can tell you.
35 But the mess has been contained at the cost of a longer DN.
36 I’m still getting some mileage out of the calamity of the past two days, but probably not enough.
37 So I’m going to go make myself look purty, and then hop into the T000000NDRA and get to work. I cleaned the T000000NDRA up yesterday in the midst of all the madness. It’s all clean and ready to fly once again. Long story, but I’m going in today in the newly spiffed up T000000NDRA.
38 So have a GREAT Monday. I just fixed the fonts, so please ignore the entire first part of this. = )
39 See you again.40 Peace.
~H~
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