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10/27/2008

• Our Roomba arrived last week and I’m completely in love with it. You press a button and let it go and it just figures things out. It does a better job at vacuuming that I do, even going under the sofa and coffee table and other furniture that I can’t get to. It drives right over rugs and over thresholds and figures out how to get everywhere in the room multiple times. Plus, it’s pretty quiet, and the kids aren’t even phased by it. Welcome to the family, Rosie.
• I must say, I sort of dig the new format of Rolling Stone. They just changed the shape of it from the large, stapled format to the traditionally sized bound magazine, much to some people’s outrage. It works for me, though.
• The Lovely Tess and I made a visit to the Children’s Discovery Museum yesterday, and you really can’t beat their Sunday morning deal. $6 for me and free for her for all of the fun that we can handle. Although for her, all she really needs is a flight of stairs to go up and down and she’s happy.
• We’re still about 4 episodes behind on Mad Men so I can’t read about what happened on the season finale last night. I would love to catch up this week, but it’s finals week for me. Where is the justice in this world?
• Now, the last of the computer drama. I finally figured out that the source of all of my problems was a bad USB card reader. Seriously. My old computer was completely fine. So after all of the hair-pulling and repairs and new computer purchase, it was a $10 card reader that was responsible. Unbelieveable. Well, in the interest of household sanity, I decided to keep the new computer and the old one is sitting in the basement running Ubuntu and acting as a backup server. Plus, the new one is all slim and sleek.
• We’ve been getting so many storage vegetables in our farm share that we’ve had to set up a root cellar in the basement. And by root cellar I mean a paper lined box on a shelf. Potatoes, carrots, parsnips, and turnips so far. But I gotta say, I’m not a big fan of turnips. I’ll have to find a good recipe for them to change my mind.
• Is it election day yet? I’m so ready for this thing to be over with already. Let’s do some voting!
• I think I dreamt in Powerpoint last week. Not good. Although I do enjoy a nice Powerpoint animation as much as the next guy.

This thing is just awesome.

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10/20/2008

• The above moment was the response to “Tess, where’s your nose?”
• Well, at least I get to go to bed at a decent hour now. There’s always next year.
• Have there ever been that many people watching the Steve Harvey Show at one time?
• I eagerly neglected vacuuming this weekend as my shiny new (and free) Roomba is on its way. I really don’t enjoy vacuuming, so this will hopefully be my new best friend. We’re still deciding on a name for it. The Lovely Suse thinks it needs a strong male name because it’s all sleek and black. I want to name it Rosie.
• I finally gave up. After spending way too much time and too much money trying to resuscitate my PC, I’ve finally thrown in the towel. It still wasn’t working right and I’ve just had enough of it. I ordered a dirt-cheap refurb Dell 530s for not much more than I was spending to repair the old one. I swore that I’d never buy a Dell ever again, but frankly, I just don’t have the time to deal with it anymore. I use my MacBook for most things these days anyway, so the home PC isn’t being taxed too much. Hopefully this will do the trick.
• Speaking of tricks (and treats), the Lovely Tess will be a chicken for Halloween this year. That is, if we can get her to wear the costume. She’s not such a fan right now, but she has the chicken dance moves and the clucking down pat. We still have a week and a half to work on it, so we’ll try to ease her into it.
• How awesome is Amy Poehler?
• Who knew? I would humbly accept the position, I suppose.

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