For Loyd

I found out today why everyone was such jerks to you at CompUSA. (Not that you personally would have done anything like this; Maybe it's a statement about the organization itself.)
I went in to get a wireless router, because they had a really good sale on them today, and they were dirt cheap after the rebates. I decided to get three of them. (Seriously, they were really cheap.) So I got all rung up and everything, and when the rebates printed out, they only gave me one rebate form. I told the girl that I needed 3 of the forms, and then she tells me that I only get one rebate per household. Did it say this on the price tag on the shelf advertising the rebate? No. Did the sales person that went and got the things from the back tell me? Even though I made a big deal about how cheap they were and how I should just get a bunch of them at that price? No. He didn't say anything. And of course the cashier also didn't say anything until I complained about not having enough rebate forms. So, then they had to go through this big thing to return two of the routers, acting the whole time like it was my fault for making them do this.
Would it have really been that hard to just be up front with me about the deal in the first place? That's why people are mean when they go in there.

The Pit vs. Alice

The Pit came back last night and Alice was its first casualty.
I was out on the couch using Alice in tablet-mode, and when I got tired I put her under the couch (so as not to be stepped on or otherwise disturbed in the early morning hours) and I fell asleep.
At some point during the night, the Pit broke free from its constraints, and one of the springs from the couch came loose. The spring swung around and oscillated as I tossed and turned in the Pit above it.
When I awoke, and looked at Alice to see what time it was, I saw that her face had been scratched severly and repeatedly by the loose spring.

"[Alice] was lost for the price of a touch [screen] and a gash across her face."

Can't live with 'em

Priscilla almost just died.
I had a running process that I couldn't get into so I had to restart her, but then when I went to turned her on again she started beeping like mad, so I hurried and turned her off and waited a few minutes (because her kind is crazy and unpredictable so maybe it was just a one time thing), but then when I tried again with her she started beeping and then her fan went into overdrive and I thought she was going to explode.
But she didn't. She just had a bad memory.

I got a new computer! Well, my work did, but its for me. Its a P4 3.6GHz, 148GB disk, and I got this 19" monitor. I'm so installing Doom 3 on it, now. It even smells good.

I'm using a Mac right now. I know, but don't freak out. See, we have this machine here at work for testing if our apps work on the Mac, but nobody ever uses it (partly 'cause the programmers don't care about the Mac, and partly because we have a limited number of working jacks to the internet). So, our secretary never actually comes in (I'm glad that's not just me, either) so I stole his internet connection and hooked it up to this Mac so that I could listen to the radio while I'm programming. I mean, uh, so I could test my applications!