To all those who called/posted with mac advice, many shiny thankyous. The patient was sent to the campus fixit deities, in interest of not voiding the warentee, or how ever you spell it. This would have been much less of a problem, were the cd it is choking on not my only copy of some critical data. fie.
Oh well, if that's the worst that happens this week, at least nothing will have eaten *me*. :P
AAARGH! My PowerBook G4 (the kind *without* the paperclip force eject option) has eaten a project-critical cd. I have tried every trick google and mac help could find for me, including turning it cd-drive side down and shaking it (yes, including open firmware, too). Tech support is closed for the day. Any ideas?
Last night I was walking with a friend to go study at a $cafe in $wyverntown, when a gaggle of $HariKrishnas came tambourining down the other side of the street. It took all my alloted willpower for the day not to belt out "This is the Song That Doesn't End..." at the top of my lungs. I'm sure there's a special level of hell, or at least a cymbolic ear-boxing in store for people who make pun of other people's cherished beliefs like that, but oooh it was close. I'm not sure I'll be able to stay quiet next time.
I'm e-mailing the suggested business names to Wyvernmommy en masse, by 2/7. She says that the person who suggests the name that she chooses will get a free embroidered something, so name away!
My wyvernmommy is working on starting a business. I asked about business names previously, but her focus has changed slightly, so I'd like to open up for a second round of punning:
She will be sewing Gothic (...gothic??? _my_ mother??? *blink*), rennaisance, and fantasy inspired clothing pieces, mostly women's stuff, for the con/craft show/e-bay market. Probably not full suits/gowns, but bits and bobs like t-shirts with gothy embroidery, hand/handguided machine done lace shirt collars/cuffs, scarves, hats, shawls, skirts, and a small amount of jewelry and home decor items.
So: anny suggestions for a business name, preferably one with a pun, especially on the word 'sew', 'goth', 'dragon', 'elf', etc. in it?
I am home and settled in. My summer rocked, except the parts where I was forceably drafted as an extra in a bad remake of a Pink Panther movie.
I spent time hanging out with some extremely cool people, and met a few more. I explored interesting places, saw shiny things, and last weekend I got to wave around ten foot long spear looking things. Shiny.
I've been horribly behind in correspondence, partly because I had very sparse i-net (well, the kind that I wouldn't get busted for lj'ing or private e-mail with, anyhow). If I haven't responded to your note or friended you yet, and it's been a couple months, that's why. Nothing personal. I'll try to catch up as fast as I can.
sistawendy, irl friend, mrdorbin, friend of friend in a different $location, I am told that you two should meet and go clubbing. Let the grooves begin.
mrdorbin, I look forward to meeting you next time I'm in $town.
US forces said they killed almost 50 militiamen loyal to the Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Sadr in battles in the holy city of Najaf yesterday, as tanks and helicopter gunships pounded the city's vast cemetery.
It takes 11.2 acres to support one pocketwyvern (glass beads included). This is 48.3% of that required to support the average American, or 68% of that required to support the average Canadian.
65% of this hypothetical land would be used for fossil fuel production.
Mrr. Still too high. Especially the fossil fuel thing. Time to turn off the lights and the computer.
This post brought to you by an annoyed wyvern with a sore throat.
Wyvernfyre - Make mexican hot chocolate according to package directions. Add 10+ drops of pure food-grade essential oil of peppermint. (Anything meant for one of those little aromatherapy lamps is in a carrier oil, and will taste nasty.)
Hold mug under nose and mouth, breathe deeply until congestion begins to go away. Then stir and drink. Increase amount of mint if sinuses and tonsils do not surrender immediately.
Weaker palates may use an appropriate amount of rumplemintz in lieu of mint oil.
There's a guy in Canada who is running a paypal account to raise money to send flowers to be delivered to random couples at the San Francisco City Hall. There's an article on him in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and scanned florist reciepts on his website. Dunno if that makes it legit or not, but the idea is cool.
~*~ In other news, sorry I've been out of the loop so long. I've been abducted by the schoolwork aliens again. yep yep. But they're treating me well. :}
Along with freshly baked cinnamon rolls, I am enjoying the tasty, if not terribly unusual, irony that today is both Earth's perihelion and the
coldest day
the nest has seen in
years
.
I'll be walkabout again from now until Tuesday. I promised a bunch of people contact info and/or friending, and will get to that when I get back online. Sorry for the delay.
yo- late for class so this's quick- but- there is enough interest in the japanese speaking friends list that I just went ahead and made a community. go check out lj community mouichido. ~R~
annoyed
silly
mischievous
busy
tired
accomplished
nerdy
sick