babble
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
This past weekend, my girlfriend and I adopted a cat from the Pasadena Humane Society. He's black and has only one eye, so he always looks like he's winking. Don't worry, I will not turn into one of those people who is always talking about their cat and displaying tons of cat photos. I will post one photo of him shortly because nobody I have told about him believes that I have a one-eyed cat. Liz and I realize that obtaining a cat is another step towards total lesbian domesticity, but never fear - even though we moved in together, essentially bought a major appliance, and adopted a cat, we are not vegan, we don't listen to folk music or Melissa Etheridge and we still have a lot of heterosexual male friends, so we have a long way to go. If I ever start talking about how "meat is murder" and eschewing the use of lipstick, you can feel free to beat me to death with a side of beef.
This weekend, I will be going to Phoenix to visit my grandma and other family members. I assume that while I am there I will have to find a way to entertain myself, and I hope to do it by taking photos of the toothless speed freaks and mulleted Nascar fans that litter the streets of that fine city. If I do, I'll be sure to share them with you. Of course, I am bringing my laptop because I am in love with it and can't bear to be parted with it for any length of time. Well, really it's because I have to work on my presentation materials for the geek conference I'm speaking at in a couple of months, but don't tell my laptop that. I don't want to break its little laptop heart.
Speaking of computers, my fucking desktop at home has completely tanked. It was running perfectly fine with no indication of any problems at all until Sunday afternoon, when it thought, "Hey, I think I'll reboot myself for no fucking good reason whatsoever! That's a great idea!" It came back up and was running long enough for me to complete my homework and an exam for the online class I'm taking, and then randomly rebooted itself again while I was searching the IBM support site to find out why the fuck it was doing that. Now it won't boot to the OS at all - I can turn it on, but right after it finishes the POST, it reboots. It goes like this: "Power on, POST, make Kat really pissed off and ready to throw me out the window, repeat." I don't know if it's hardware or software related, so each evening I have been going home from work and fucking with it by trying different fixes. If any of my illustrious readership is, say, in L.A. and is exceptionally gifted with PC hardware problems, you should come over right now and fix it for me so that I don't go off the deep end. If you do, I'll be eternally grateful and will be sure to spare you when my evil empire takes over.
babbled by Kat @ 9:51:00 AM |
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