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Today: Some luck, some dread
Dec. 23rd, 2005 11:38 pmFinally gave the new hardfill pad a stress test: No good. It got sticky pretty quick, and not even the same arrow that's stuck on that pad before. The sensors also slip around on top of the plywood; that might be fixable by sticking the regular foam underneath the wood. There's currently about an eighth of an inch of foam postery stuff under it, which does nothing to soften the pounding on the floor.
Dropped Frances off at the airport, then headed off to errands for my parents. Library (right at closing; no time to continue my quest for the worst book I can read), Target (windshield wiper fluid that doesn't freeze), and the grocery store. On a crack hungering, I swung through Target's software section, only to catch some marvelous luck: Target not only had no copies of Civ IV, they didn't even seem to have a place for them. I pondered getting the complete Civ III pack instead, but let it be. I'm probably better off without that degree of crack - listed in the paper as "most likely to end in an intervention" - until dead week or so.
Tomorrow I have not one, but two, family gatherings to go to. First the huge one at lunch of everyone related to my father, and then a smaller one at his sister's house, which is probably a thinly veiled gathering to watch the Broncos/Raiders game. Of all the sick, twisted, things that could intrude on what might otherwise be a perfectly self-respecting holiday, it apparently has to be football. I figure it'd probably be rude to drag my laptop along and tune out the game, even if I did set up the wireless at that house.
I guess I'm only a prolific poster when there's nobody around to witness firsthand what I'm actually doing. Clearly I just need to remember that not everyone on *J is at Mudd.
In other news, I passed a thousand entries somewhere recently and didn't notice. Go me.
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Dropped Frances off at the airport, then headed off to errands for my parents. Library (right at closing; no time to continue my quest for the worst book I can read), Target (windshield wiper fluid that doesn't freeze), and the grocery store. On a crack hungering, I swung through Target's software section, only to catch some marvelous luck: Target not only had no copies of Civ IV, they didn't even seem to have a place for them. I pondered getting the complete Civ III pack instead, but let it be. I'm probably better off without that degree of crack - listed in the paper as "most likely to end in an intervention" - until dead week or so.
Tomorrow I have not one, but two, family gatherings to go to. First the huge one at lunch of everyone related to my father, and then a smaller one at his sister's house, which is probably a thinly veiled gathering to watch the Broncos/Raiders game. Of all the sick, twisted, things that could intrude on what might otherwise be a perfectly self-respecting holiday, it apparently has to be football. I figure it'd probably be rude to drag my laptop along and tune out the game, even if I did set up the wireless at that house.
I guess I'm only a prolific poster when there's nobody around to witness firsthand what I'm actually doing. Clearly I just need to remember that not everyone on *J is at Mudd.
In other news, I passed a thousand entries somewhere recently and didn't notice. Go me.
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