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Saturday, March 18, 2006

The Dumb Day Tales

Today was a dumb day. My son spent the night at his cousin's last night, so you'd think I'd be all excited about an evening to write and then a whole morning, too, because my brother said he'd bring my son home. And you'd be right. Only my computer started misbehaving and I ended up trying to head off disaster instead of writing. Last night WPX3 stopped working. So I used WP 12, but then whatever was freaking X3 started freaking WP12 this morning. My son gets home and plainly, he has not slept any more than, say, 5 mintues the whole night. My computer was still unreliable and trashing files (erk!!) so I started hacking the registry and there was an awful moment when I thought I'd disabled part of the OS, even though that didn't make sense considering I was just deleting all the x3 registry entries left behind after the so-called "uninstall". But then instead of getting myself even more hot and bothered, I turned off the computer and took my soon to the movies.

We saw Failure to Launch and every time I thought the movie was going to crash and burn, it didn't. It had its dumb parts, but it was really a good, enjoyable movie that I would not have minded paying a non-matinee price for. First off, I never thought Matthew MacConneghy was all that great until this movie. He's a hottie. And, it was a buddie film and the buddies were hot, too. And interesting and intelligent! And, it was a chick film and Sarah Jessica Parker is too damn skinny. But her roommate was hilarious. I'd go see anything with her in it. And, Terry Bradshaw, who I never liked because he just didn't want to like Joe Montana, was great and so was Kathy Bates. Yay all around!

So then we got home from the movie, I turned on the computer and it worked just fine. I reconnected the wpd extension to wp12 and got some extra work done because my son fell asleep so I didn't have to make him dinner when I expected. Just fed him now, but I got some good stuff done in that hour and a half. The puppy is asleep on my lap, the utility room tile is down and looks even better than I imagined. Even the tile guy liked what I did (blackish gray tiles from Italy, but polished and unpolished squares laid down in a checkerboard.) Very good for hiding dirt and yet, it doesn't look like utility room crap. You'd think we were from Marin County or something. Very cool. Back to writing.

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