So another of my hard drives failed… First there was the one in the Tivo – which sucked as the unit was only 18 months old, but of course out of warranty. So, now I have a hacked Tivo with a new hard drive. Then, two nights ago I hear this horrible racket coming from the other room… more specifically from inside the PC case. Long story short, it was four-year-old drive that I wasn’t actually using to store anything (I had my suspicions that it was going to die). Anyway, always back up your crap. I do, and so I’m feeling no pain, other than the annoyance of opening up my case to take out what is now being used as a paperweight…

I’ve gone out a lot this week, so consequently I’m really tired. Monday night it was drinks after work. Tuesday – I think I did something, but now I can’t remember. Wednesday I worked till 9pm, then joined the gang for karaoke. I hadn’t planned on getting up there, my voice has been disappearing with the never ending cough, but after several drinks I decided to give “A View to A Kill” a shot. I don’t think it was too horrible, but my voice did disappear and do that Peter Brady thing during the chorus. Afterwards I couldn’t talk. But I could eat pizza which is what we did afterwards. Tonight my good friend and former co-worker Brenda made an appearance so we went out to dinner with another friend, and then ran into another co-worker. We all had steak – it was wonderful. The conversation turned to work at some point and we all complained about various situations, etc. – it was therapeutic. There were drinks there as well and we hung out for quite a while just shooting the breeze. The one disturbing (or actually, the one really, really disturbing) thing that happened was that we discovered that someone had left a used maxi-pad just laying in the bathroom on the handle thing that wheelchair-bound patrons use to help them on and off. Ugh. Nasty. And this was a nice restaurant.

Anyway, I’ve been out a lot, so e-mails have gone unanswered, websites have gone un-updated and general laziness has ensued. We’ll get it all cleared up this weekend. That and laundry. Swear.

PIX OF THE DAY: I wish someone had salted my sidewalk…
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