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Asylum Video: How To Talk To Your Children About Star Wars (PSA)

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Absolutely Brilliant!

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Where the $&@ is Kevin?!

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Where the $@& is Kevin?!

I am here bemoaning my MacBook Pro. You see? It started back in November...
~~~~~~wavy lines~~~~~
*type, type, type*
FREEZE!
"What the?!"
Reboot!
Blue screen (yes, the mac gets them too)
"crap!"
Reboot
Blue screen with spinning beach ball of doom
"Double crap!"

My hard drive died. What's more, my hard drive died and I didn't have ANY backup. Yes, I'm a geek and I wasn't backing up my drive!

I bought my mac 9 months prior and didn't get AppleCare, so I bought my replacement drive at OWC. Having bought drives there before, I trust them. I spent the next 4 months building back up my data and recovering what I could.

April
spinning ball is back! It appears when I try to do ANYTHING. I try everything including virus software, disk utilities, wiping the drive and reinstalling. Whenever I try to recover anything from backup, the BALL and slowness! Finally the backup drive stops responding and IT dies. WTF?!

I give up and take it to the Apple store. They have it overnight and return it to me with an apology. They say the hard drive is failing but since it's not the original Apple drive, they can't replace it. Really?! You can't replace this drive because it's the replacement for the Apple hard drive that died 4 months prior? Sigh

I'm not bitter

BTW- I might be bitchy about their policy, but the staff was nice and (amazing as it was that this happened 3 days after I was there) [this] was not me.

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40 days Outside the Dessert

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Yes, I'm Catholic (converted- baptized Presbyterian). That means on the day before ash Wednesday of every year, I overeat and otherwise overindulge. This is because for the next 40 days I will deprive myself from over-excess to mirror Jesus's 40 days in the desert. It is a time to reflect on the past year, a time to focus on God, a time to lose 20 pounds (in the name of God, of course)!

This year, I will be spending every one of those 40 days consuming no more than 1,900 calories (which is a lot for a diet) and will be exercising (at least) 20 minutes.

Day one starts today (6:55am). I have completed my exercise- now I must go my first day [without]. I have done this before and I can do this again!

Another Lenten decision I've made is to be more active in my writing (this is a blog, after all). While I cannot promise every day, I can promise it'll be more (a lot more!) frequent than it has been in the last 5 months!

Say some prayers for me (even if you're atheist ;). I'm off into the desert, for my family, for my God, for me.

 

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