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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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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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