db: bitter, sweet; easily distracted

Saturday night.

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I just spent another Saturday night with Ralph Fiennes and Africa. Sometimes it’s The English Patient, and sometimes it’s The Constant Gardener, but it seems to fit, often enough.

It was an OK day! I woke up early (for a Saturday), around 7. Coffee, dog-walking, cleaned up a bit here and there. The Wallpaper Man came and hung my wallpaper in the dining room (only 18 months since the room has been done) and completed the finishing work on the replacement back door (only…14 months lag on that). My dining room is ready for guests!

dining room

Little things make me happy :) sometimes!

What else, this week…the Punk Rock Boy™ came over for a rather good beef stew the other day. We had a nice evening.

I got square with the Tax Man over a few anomalies. That’s a relief. Not that I was feeling like Al Capone or anything.

My little wee iBook has periodic convulsions that do not make me happy, and I’m trying hard not to spend vacation money on a new MacBook (no, not the Air, it’s not really a useful second machine for me. I’m looking at a small MacBook that I can easily travel with and watch movies on and such.). You know, someone wins the lottery basically once each week, I don’t know why I can’t be numbered among those chosen! it’s not like I’m not buying the tickets…

Enzo needs service, and I need to remember this at a time when I can call the Vespa people, since my other option seems to be an option no longer. (OH THE DRAMA. NEVER MIND.)

Not much else springs to mind, other than the fact that I’ve eaten breakfast for dinner (no, not toothpaste) twice in a row, and I like that. Also, at this very moment, Choobie is having some very exciting dream, and squealing in his sleep, bless his little heart. He makes much more noise asleep than awake, Mysterious Dog that he is.

Enjoy your weekend!

And this pinkness…

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I must say it’s more virulently, pepto-bismolly, pink on a Windows machine than it is on my Macs. Not sure why! but I apologize to my unenlightened friends for the visual shock.

I hope to get the font colours back where I want them soon.

Ooh, bad bloggers. Bad!

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Gawker Media got some unwelcome headlines this week as bloggers on their site, Gizmodo (which I read pretty often) had the poor judgment to prank CES.

Kids, what were you thinking?! Someone’s getting banned and Giz might not be coming back either.

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Personally, I’m waiting with bated breath for the Apple thingie next week. I think my wee laptop is going to explode soon, and if they announce the touted supathin one, maybe I’ll be able to more easily see my way clear to a new MacBook.