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GeotargetGood News / Bad News, dear journal.

Good News: I have full power at my apartment. Air Conditioning and Lights, TV, etc.

Bad News: Big Brain’s Hard Drive is crapping out… I can’t seem to keep him awake for more than a moment or two before he cycles through and reboots… I’m going to estimate he needs about $400 worth of repairs… mirror the giant drives over to new drives, basically. He had started to die earlier.. I thought it was a power issue, but I see now that it’s even worse.

Good News: I dropped it off and it’s still covered under the extended warranty.. (this big brain was bought 12/21/03, and he’s got 2 years parts and labor covered – a little over a month left to freshen up – I’m also having them do a full system peek, just in case the video card is starting to crap out)

I expect to have it back at HQ within 7 working days. Meanwhile, lappie is a handy backup, just word processing and the like… no major gaming for a week or so.

I’ve begun sorting the apartment out… packing things into boxes and skimming down to the very basics. All of my books should be ready for transport by the end of the weekend.

Phoenix is going to get some training today after lunch… I think that she has some solid tech potential.

Moment of Lyric: mp3

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7913 – Newt got fan mail!

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Dear Scotto,

I was looking online for some pictures when I came across your blog.  My boyfriend and I are planning on getting married next October and we want to have a costume wedding. I’ve decided to go as Poison Ivy (since she is the most beautiful comic character I can think of, and gosh darn it, I want to be beautiful on my wedding day).  I put “Poison Ivy and Pictures” into the search engine and came across your page.  And I’m glad I did.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to see the links you had posted (because my computer is from the iceage).  But your cat, Newton, reminds me so much of my cat, Barry Allen.  He just passed away last March and looks exactly like yours. I just wanted to let you know that I am glad to see the pictures you posted.

Happy memories are plentiful, but never quite enough.

Thanks for both the thoughts of Barry Allen and your kind and clever wit.

Sincerely,
Mandy
Washington, DC.

 “he leadeth me to still waters, and he pusheth me in.”

how nice was that?

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GeotargetSaw Phoenix as I was leaving work today… she’s currently jobless – apparently some club drama caused her to bail. We had a hug and got caught up with things. She might be preggers, too. I still don’t know what happened with Gil and co. She has a lot more freckles than I realized… I gave her a business card and offered to see if we could find her a gig as a tech (which the company needs).

Amazing how a $100,000 loan can turn into $250,000 when paid back over 30 years. The power of interest.

Broward Traffic Light update –

Total number of Signals:1326
Total number of Signals on Flash:40
Total number of Signals on Full Color:835
Total number of signals on Generator:87
Total number of signals Out:451

Lots of 4-way stops going on until late December, it seems.

State utility regulators Wednesday approved an fuel-cost increase for Florida Power & Light Co. that will hike an average customer bill by 19 percent starting Jan. 1. The increase would drive an average 1,000 kilowatt hour monthly bill up by $16.99 to $108.61, up from $91.62.

I’m on day 17 of having no A/C, no Fridge, no Big-brain computer and no stove or microwave oven. Not really a tragedy. I do fine since I have hot showers, some lights and some internet resources. Students have to make up 6 of the 11 missed school days. (shortened Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, mostly.)

Moment of Lyric: mp3

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7905 – Happy Trees

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via buzzmachine

The Audit Bureau of Circulations is coming out with its report on
newspaper popularity (what else should we call sales) and it’s going to
be bad. The Wall Street Journal (free link) sums up the numbers:
: Gannett down 2.5 percent
: Knight Ridder down 2.9 percent
: Tribune Company down 4 percent (not including scandal-scarred Newsday)

More numbers from E&P:

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“McClatchy is breaking its 20-year winning streak this period. Daily
circulation dropped around 1% while there was a “steeper decline” on
Sunday.”
: Knight Ridder’s breakdown: down 2 percent daily, 3.5 percent Sunday.
: Belo’s Dallas Morning News: down 7 percent.
: Providence Journal down 2 percent.
: Riverside Press-Enterprise down 3 percent daily, 4 percent Sunday.
: Boston Globe down 7.7 percent daily, 7 percent Sunday.
: NYTimes up 0.4 percent daily, 0.1 percent Sunday. “The increases came
mostly from the paper’s national effort. Circulation for the New York
City area declined.

Youch.

: Notable quotes above.

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7902 – birthdate meme

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snagged from christin, who snagged it from ana:

Your Birthdate: February 2

You’re so intuitive, it’s like you have a sixth, seventh, and eighth sense.
You connect with others freely and easily – and you tend to have many best friends.
Warm and caring, it’s hard for you to close your heart to anyone.
Affection is like air for you – you need to give and receive it to survive.

Your strength: Your universal compassion

Your weakness: Your unpredictable mood swings

Your power color: Mauve

Your power symbol: Butterfly

Your power month: February

Mood swings? varies. Compassion? I can have a very hard heart at times, depending on the situation. I am fond of affection, and am fairly intuitive. I don’t have many best friends, but am a friendly guy.

Welcome to my wall scrawls.