daylight saving blues

This week's daylight saving switcharoo was pretty darn bad. The worst daylight saving year ever. By Friday I was so messed up that I zoned out at two green lights. Someone honked both times.

I am now typing from my actual computer. The one that has only worked a week total in the last six months. I'm also typing on the new keyboard that Rhett gave me for my birthday. I'm not used to it. I love how it has a media player control panel at the top as well as other useful buttons like forward, back, refresh, home, my computer, etc. I also loooove the touch sensitivity on they keys. I don't love, however, that the left shift button is half the size it should be and a "\" is right next to it. That means every other time I use the shift key, i make a slash and then type a lower case letter. You can't tell, because I'm correcting my mistakes and therefore spending twice as much time typing this. I'll get used to it, don't worry. The tab key has some weird issues too, but it'll be fine... finer than my last two keyboards anyway.

I had the sucker in at Intrigue Computers. I have a beef with Totally Awesome, which I've been very public about in recent years, so I couldn't go back (that, and I guess it's out of business now). I might should have taken it somewhere other than Intrigue, but I have a sense of loyalty with them (possibly because I might be their only customer). Over the past few months I had them completely gut the machine with a new motherboard and a new hard drive. Within a few minutes of having my new machine, the sound went out. The last time I took it in was to remedy this problem. When I called to check in about it, they were stumped. They were actually almost happy to be stumped. It was like an X-file to them. The problem was a strange curiosity that fascinated them more than frustrated them. They found my chronic computer problems intriguing. That seemed to be the attitude, anyway. So a couple of days later they called me back and said that they replaced the motherboard again and it works. They don't know why. No big deal really. At least since I bought it from them originally they don't charge me for repairs (or replacements) to their own stuff.

I think one of the computer speakers blew out, though.

I'm continuing on with my spree of a lifetime. A few Saturdays ago I maxed out the mcgriddle consumption on my McDonald's gift card. I also used the Barnes and Noble card my mom gave me to give my mom a Verdi opera DVD. Such an exchange kind of depresses me. It's like no exchange was even made. Anyway, I hate Blockbuster video. When I was 15 years old they made me put down like a $300 deposit to rent a Nintendo. At the time they only gave out free memberships for people who supplied credit card information (I heard later that they automatically charged credit cards for late fees (they probably still don't do that though)). They're also notorious for not having widescreen. And now, now, they don't accept my two-year-old Blockbuster gift card. What really irks me is that one of my loved ones actually paid Blockbuster for the card and out of spite for the company I didn't use it -- not realizing that I just gave Blockbuster five bucks FOR DOING NOTHING! ... Hollywood, thankfully, fully accepted the $10 gift card there. I got Three O'Clock High and a package of dots candy.

I recently inherited a gift certificate for about 30 bucks at Graywhale CD. Somebody tell me what cds, dvds and/or video games I should get there.

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Happy Birthday Pete!