KirstenL4W

First of all, I’d like to say thanks for all your suggestions on feed readers. I’ve decided to try out Google Reader, since it seems that I am slowly but surely moving everything to Google. I got myself a Gmail address (still using as a backup at this point) and I use Google Docs on a regular basis for things that I need to share or need to access on multiple computers. Anyway, a few of the blogs I want to put on Reader don’t have feeds, so they are starred* in my blogroll only as a note to me to check them from time to time.

Now, for the news. Yesterday I cam home for work and decided to do some chores before Boyfriend came home from work. (Usually he works from home, but goes into the office once in awhile. Yesterday was one of those days.) I got right to work doing dishes, which has been frustrating because our brand new cheap ass apartment issue dishwasher seems to actually dirty the dishes rather than clean them. So wash by hand it was. But, the sink doesn’t want to hold water - if I fill it up it still drains out. So I wash dishes by running the water, which Boyfriend hates because of the waste.

I finished washing the dishes and put them in the large drying rack (formerly known as the dishwasher). Then I decided to go under the sink to get a cleaner to clean a few things. I noticed that the can of Scrubbing Bubbles was wet. Weird. Then it dawned on me - the Mystery of the Draining Sink was solved. It was 4:45 at this point, and the office closed at 5, so I called up and requested that a maintenance person come over right away. Ten minutes later, my doorbell rang and Danny was there to fix it all. One problem - I knew more about this stuff than Danny apparently did. He didn’t have the proper tools, then he thought he fixed it when in fact he was looking at the wrong part of the drain. So, he goes to get a new drain assembly and starts to install it, with the packaging included. I pulled out the cardboard pieces and gave it back to him to install. I also slipped into the other room to call Boyfriend to tell him that I needed him home NOW because this guy wasn’t too brilliant. Boyfriend tells me later that Danny is the HEAD of maintenance. Great. Anyway, the drain is fixed, though the gasket is too large and the drain sticks up out of the sink. Now we just have to get someone else over to replace the floor of our kitchen cabinet and the cabinet next to it, because those rotted out.

Today is a lazy day, which is about to end. Boyfriend and other friends who are seemingly allergic to daytime have just made plans to meet up for dinner and to watch one of our friends play in his band. But I had a productive day, at least for a lazy day. I caught up on sleep, organized some paperwork, found a bit of space on my desk in the process, and went through some more music on iTunes so that I could get rid of songs I really don’t care for. I got them on there when I uploaded entire CDs from my collection, so I’m in the process of going through the approximately 2500 songs I have to get rid of the ones I really don’t like. And the CD burning is put on hold a bit until I get myself an external hard drive, because my 80Gb drive that I thought would be way more than enough space apparently isn’t. Of course, I wasn’t using iTunes at the time. Quick question for the pod people out there: if I simply move my music files, will I have a problem with those that are copy-protected? I know I can’t copy them or burn more than 7 copies of them, but will I have a problem with simple relocation?

That’s about it for now. I still have more blogs to add to Google Reader, but that will have to wait for now, since I need to get ready to go out with the gang.

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