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July 22, 2007 By

Google Reader it is. Thanks for the advice, everyone. I already have the Google toolbar, so this makes it easy, and all the blogs I love to read are there. It’s made my blog reading so much quicker now that I don’t have to go to my own blog and click on all the links in my blogroll. There are only 3 blogs (indicated in my blogroll by a *) that don’t have feeds (Mist1, I’m talking to you!) so I still need to remember to come here and actually read them the old-fashioned way.

I’m still contemplating a complete move over to Google, including my main email address. That will take a bit more time to think over, because I’ve had my current email for about 8 years now, so old habits die hard. Like I said, still looking into that.

Last night Boyfriend and a bunch of our friends went to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I’ve seen the movie, but never seen it live, so it was quite the experience. It wasn’t at all what I expected, either. The crowd was way rowdier than I thought they’d be, and since the venue doesn’t allow the audience to bring in props, they sell their own weenie-bag of props for $1. The bag included a piece of newspaper, a few sheets of toilet paper, 3 playing cards, a party hat and noisemaker. No toast, no rice, no squirtguns, none of the good stuff.

The rest of this week has been fairly uneventful. The remodel continues in my department at work, though my cube is done and I have settled in. The heat continues to wear me down, even though I don’t spend much time in it. Twice this week I’ve come home from work and taken very long naps. That totally screws up my routine, so I can’t do that anymore. Ah, and yes, I’m sure you want an update on the whole leaky sink issue. The sink is fixed and doesn’t leak, even though the ill-fitting drain assembly looks like shit. The cabinet, on the other hand – well, the cabinet directly under the sink was “fixed” by maintenance laying down a new layer of thin parquet to cover up the damage. It’s still warped, and the mold is still there, just covered up. Absolutely no attention was taken with the cabinet directly next to the sink that was also affected, so this is still unusable. We’re gonna go talk to them to see what they want to do about this. Should I mention that we’ve both been feeling a bit stuffy and congested the past few days?

So that’s about that for now. Today we’ll try to see the new Harry Potter movie with some friends. I’m not that huge a Potter fan, I’ve never read a single one of the books, but I’ve seen the movies thus far, thanks to my wonderful Boyfriend. So that’s the goal for today: Harry Potter, don’t forget to eat due to our lazy asses around the house this afternoon or our busy schedules later, and try to get to bed at a halfway decent hour so we don’t start the week in a major sleep deprived state.

Filed Under: On the Internet

Leaky Brains – I Mean Drains

July 14, 2007 By

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.

Filed Under: House

Does Anyone Know Anything?

July 12, 2007 By

Is there some sort of feed website where I can subscribe to all my favorite blogs and have all new posts on said blogs delivered to my email? I’d like to do this from one single source rather than a rag-tag collection of feeds, and I’d really like them delivered to the email address of my choosing, rather than having to visit yet another website (if I can do that, then I’d just read all the blogs). I’m trying to streamline things here so that I can easily keep up with everyone.

On a side note, does anyone know how I can smack the idiot know-nothings who don’t know what the hell song they’re sharing on L!meW1re? I get so annoyed when I see a song by an artist, thinking that particular artist covered a song I already like, only to find out that it’s not a cover, it’s the original version, and some idiot put the wrong artist to the song. Then again, I suppose the people who use L!mew1re are the same idiots who pimp out their MySpace pages so that they are rendered unreadable by the general population.

Filed Under: My Blog, On the Internet

The “I Am Very Busy” Excuse

July 4, 2007 By

And you’d better believe it. I now have a job I love, but they are pretty strict about internet use at work. Even if I could have liberal use of the internet, I don’t have time for that, which is good. I wanted a job that kept me busy, and I have it. I really have no complaints there.

At home, as you all know, I no longer live alone. I like to spend time with Boyfriend. Dinner is actually a real cooked meal, usually cooked by me, rather than the “quick nuke it in between IM posts” stuff that I used to eat. Sometimes we go out with friends in the evening. Weekends usually see us really busy, with lots of activities planned or us going out of town. We went to Denver a few weeks back and will probably be going back again in a couple of weeks. This weekend there are friends coming to visit, and my understanding is that they have so many things they want to do on the 2 days they are here that we will barely get a chance to shit (there, that ought to affect my G rating!). I’m not complaining, it will be fun right up until I walk my zombie ass into work at 7am Monday morning.

I know you are all used to me posting often, at least 3-4 times a week. Now I’m down to about once a week. Basically, I don’t sit at work and blog anymore. I don’t come home and go right to the computer anymore. I have a Boyfriend and a wonderful life, and because of that, blogging is no longer the love of my life. Sure, I still do really enjoy blogging, so I’ll still be around. I’ll try to keep to at least once a week. The part that’s a bit more difficult to take is that I don’t have much time anymore to read everyone else’s blogs. I try my best to keep up, and don’t comment as much as I used to, but I do make every effort when I am online to read what you all are writing and doing. So I’m still here. I just have a life outside of the blogosphere now.

Filed Under: My Blog