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I want to add something about Billy’s computer which FINALLY got fixed on Thursday when I convinced the audibly sneering techie guy to drive to my office to do it for me. I guess it was a master/slave problem and slightly above my amazing technical skills. I just couldn’t deal with it anymore, I could not be kind concurrently with trying to fix that f*#king thing and it cost me about $5 to the potty mouth jar.

oh, another week like this.

Just have another margarita. My car developed an unfortunate sound like the Karmann Ghia I drove when I was in college and the lovely repair shop, once they got their heads under her skirt found about a zillion dollars worth of maintenance that I should look into, why would I be driving a 100 year old car with zillions of miles on it if I had money laying around?

So how does anyone know how to make webpage stuff? Am I just slow? I’ve been trying to work my way through these tutorials and I still can’t create anything.

Monday was an incredibly wet day so I decided to do the non maintenance hair and it ended up looked just about the same as if I would have tried to use products to force it into submission.

I bought a new CD last week, the new Limp Bizkit. I can’t tell you how happy I am that I like a currently popular band. I was walking downtown and this young guy said hi to me and I think it was because he knew I like Limp Bizkit.

We finally got our stove all fixed again. We have a Jenn Air with one side 2 burners and one side this grill thing that we’ve never used. We’ve always talked about buying a new insert with 2 more burners but we never did. Last week one of our burners crapped out and so we were a one burner family and this was quite the challenge.

We ordered the insert and had the broken one fixed and as of today we have 4 burners. We’re going to try to make something that involves using all 4 at once. You know you’re a grown up when you’re this excited about your stove.

This morning we went on our normal walk on the Discovery Trail. This weekend is a big international Volkswalk event in Vancouver (WA, not BC, in case there is anyone reading this who doesn’t know me) and it turned out they were on the same trail — only we were going the opposite way. We said good morning to about 300 people from all over the world. It was a pretty fun way to start the day.

Yesterday I read Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason. For the first 50 pages or so, I was just thinking Bridget is the world’s biggest idiot and how can I even finish this book. But once I got to the part with the interview with Colin Firth, it was too damn funny. And it was a nice break before I crack the next sword and dragon book, Stone of Farewell, which is the shortest book in the series weighing in at a scant 727 pages.

This was my week: Sunday night U2, got in bed after midnight. Went to work early on Monday and then left early to see Memento. Got home after 8. Tuesday is yoga – got home after 9. Wednesday I did grocery shopping and by the time I got everything put away it was after 8. Thursday was a family dinner and I got home after 11. This morning I got up early to take my car in. This situation has also led to poor eating so when I got home today I could barely hold my head up I was so tired. I took a nap at 2:30 and I slept so hard I had scary dreams that had to do with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it was like I could not move. But after I woke up I started feeling relatively normal again. I think a good nights sleep tonight and I’ll in good shape.

We’ve been talking about replacing my car. I’ve been driving a Honda CRX since 1986. This is my second one — I bought it in May 1990. It’s got 113,000 miles on it and is sort of beat up but a decent car and well maintained and, key: paid for. I need about $800 of random maintenance and was trying to talk myself into just getting something new (used, but new for me) now but since the car place tells me its in mechanically great shape, I don’t drive that much and it gets great gas mileage, it seems foolish to replace it. Why not just put the money that I’d use for a car payment into savings? If the car disintigrates, I’ll have a stash for a new one, and in the meantime, I’m driving a healthy car. So I think I’ve talked myself out of a new car. Maybe I’ll put a cheap CD player in as a consolation prize.

Today we bought LeRoy a new computer for the office. We went to Costco and I’m glad I asked Billy to come with me because the thing came in a box the size of a small apartment. We wrestled it out to the parking lot and it wouldn’t fit in the car. This woman in the parking lot says, “Need a bigger car?” So we had to open the box and we could get the tower box in there (the big box had 2 smaller boxes in it) but the monitor box wouldn’t fit either so we had to wrestle that out of the box. It’s, of course, raining. We got it back to the office.

Then I had to set the thing up. I feel sorry for the random computer illiterates who have no idea what they are doing. On a scale of 1 – 10 with 1 being stone age never seen a computer before and 10 being programs a computer you built out of handy things laying around the house — I’d put myself at a solid 6 and it took me all frickin day just to get the mail, Internet and word processor set up and all the little “we can do this for you automatically” nightmare switches turned off. The true test will be when LeRoy powers up and tries to work with it. You could get email, surf, word process and print when I left.