the everyday adventures of sabrina

• There’s something remarkably calming about staring out into space over the whole of an orderly, sparkling cityscape. I <3 my apartment. #
• The Plague, Day 3. Pro: Less sinus headache. Con: Still cannot talk in anything but a painfully froggy voice. Perhaps Day 4? #
• @smokes70 20 days left of Bush! #

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• Okay, I am now officially weary of the plague. Also, out of Kleenex. #
• Had thought maybe I could go in to work today. However, upon limping out of bed, still feel like death on toast. Argh. #
• Just read an article which used this spelling: preëminent. Technically correct trema usage, I suppose, but still pretentious as all git-out. #
• Never got contacted about an SNP ticket. Guess I’m not getting one. :( #

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• On my third pot of mint tea w/honey today. Soon, I shall turn green from it all. #
• @jacklund Probably all licensing issues. Think of it as an excuse to catch up on all the classics you always meant to watch! #
• Ow. Sinuses making every part of my head hurt. Sudafed, why have you forsaken me? #
• @denizenofchaos Haha. It’s the price we pay for being cool kids! #
• @sanityknit Enjoy it while it lasts :) #

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• @sanityknit Wow. Yeah. That’s … weird? I hope it’s just perspective or something :-) #
• I think I’m coming down with something. Wonderful. #
• Ugh. Have definitely come down with something. So much for my only one personal weekend day to myself this weekend being relaxing. #
• Making matzoh ball soup and feeling generally sorry for myself. At least it’s an excuse to break out the TNG S1 disks I got recently. #

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• It took me 40 minutes to drive 15 miles. Pea soup fog. Missed an exit in the fogbank. Still getting passed by idiots doing 60, natch. #
• @sanityknit Took it to auto parts store – they have a diagnostic thingie. Fuel mix running lean. Not critical, just wasteful. Yay? #
• Also, unexpected extra evening in P-Town. Fambly elected that I should not drive in this goo. I didn’t really protest. T-storms tmrw tho. #
• Also, should note that after spending 75 mins clearing half of driveway, 50*F temps melted the rest of it. My heart was in the right place. #
• @robotviki Have a great trip! Accost lots of Deutschlanders! Drink bier! Sehen cool stuff! Enjoy being !here! #
• Crap!! I just realized I have like 6 days left to finish that afghan I wanted to finish crocheting by the end of the year!!! #
• Dude. Totally just checked the weather for the trip back tomorrow. It’s gonna be like 6 hours of dense fog, rain, gusting winds. W/cat. :( #
• About 4 hours left until I blow this taco stand. Breakfast, yarn hunting, cat setup and retrieval operations… then the fun begins. #
• Home! Missed nearly all of the bad weather, too. Though that didn’t stop me from constantly watching the horizon for funnel clouds. #
• @sanityknit Yeah, but in the end, you’ll have WAY better bragging rights than those of us who have only knit sweaters in super-bulky… #

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• Argh. You know you’re in the sticks when…all the damn mechanics for 50 miles are closed the day /after/ the holiday. Even the dealer! #
• Also, you know you’re in the sticks when the idea of driving 50 miles to the mechanic’s is not an unreasonable one. #
• @smokes70 Oh my God, THANK YOU. YOU ARE A LIFESAVER. #
• @chowbok Haha, brilliant. Is it actually for real? I can’t tell, it’s so improbable yet, I mean, people are pretty dumb sometimes… #
• Still no SNP ticket. :( :( :( :( :( #
• I hate Comcast’s support site. It’s all so whizbang you can’t open pages in new tabs or use back/fwd buttons effectively. Web design jerks! #
• Also, Dear Windows Mail: “Error Number 0×800CCC92″ is not, personally, what I would consider a particularly useful message to the user. FYI. #
• Does anyone have a more Grandma-friendly email GUI client suggestion than Vista Windows Mail, which makes me regret being born? #
• VISTA WONT INSTALL HOTFIXES IT JUST TELLS ME ‘FAILED’ SERIOUSLY GOING TO START TAKING HOSTAGES ANY MINUTE NOW #
• @shadow Haven’t tried it actually… Might give it a shot. Can’t possibly be /worse/, can it? #
• And okay, seriously, in the annals of bad errors, “An unknown error has occurred” is right up there on the WORST EVER list. #
• @shadow THUNDERBIRD CAN SEND EMAIL OMG OMG OMG YAY! #
• Windows Firewall blocking Windows Updates which kept Windows Mail from working. Nice interdepartmental communications there, guys. #
• omg. Just cleared ice/slush/goo off 2/3 of a double-wide driveway. So tired now. Someone bring me coffee and a donut; I’m too weak to move. #
• @sanityknit I don’t know… check engine light came back on. Suspect they did not actually fix the problem last time. :( #
• @jacklund Their features make me stabby. Also their errors. And really, their software in general. #
• Also, next time someone mocks me for using a Mac I’m just going to say, “Unexpected error 8007002E.” #

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• @mizmoose Delivery? #
• Made it to P-Town. Cat made it all the way to Bloomington before barfing… And he aimed for the rubber floormat, good kitty. #
• OMG. Vista constantly popping up “Did you really click…?” windows for the stupidest things. WHINIEST, MOST CODEPENDENT OS EVER. #
• Ugh. I now regret giving my grandmother a computer with such an awful, awful train wreck of an operating system. I long for XP. #
• Wishing i had something profound to say. Stupidly left knitting in car; consequently, BOOORED. #

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• One of my KnitPicks Options circular needles died today!! The cord pulled out of the screwy bit. I am shocked and dismayed. #
• @chowbok I love cat snores! They’re the best. Better even than chasing yarn balls in their sleep. #
• Tiger gets to go back to P-Town for the first time in…12 years?? Bet he still loves the roadtripping! #
• And Citi attempts to screw me twice in the same calendar month. So long, guys. Your poor money management skills are /not/ my problem. #
• Bottle of catnip spray worth its price just for the first time Kiyoshi rolls ecstatically right off the side of the ‘nip-doused footstool. #

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• Every so often, my smoke detector chirps a couple times a few seconds apart, then goes silent for hours. Dying battery, or random taunting? #
• Someone is shooting off a ton of fireworks in the south loop, obscured by the hateful new high-rise kitty corner from mine. Can’t see! Boo! #
• Argh. Xmas plans all up in the air now. Stress stress stress. Also, MOAR SNOW-SLEET-SLUSH-ICE? DO NOT WANT #
• Having a slapfight with @smokes70 over Fourth vs Fifth Doctor. But only because HE IS CLEARLY WRONG. #
• @mizmoose Hey, who knew, you are also COMPLETELY WRONG. #
• @mizmoose Well, yes, Nine is full of win. That is an acceptable compromise. #
• Throwing up my hands in the air as once more an unannounced network outage screws over the work I was trying to get done. #

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• OMG. I actually came home from Hammond *up*. By, like, a lot. I mean, not a /lot/ a lot, but, like, almost twice what I put in. #
• @mizmoose You didn’t have to tell me that! I had no idea we were in for more of this stuff… blah. #
• Forgot my laptop today, hence am stuck in Windows hell all day. On the bright side, Chrome actually is kind of cool. #
• @robotviki Was it Vonderbob in disguise? #
• TOMORROW’S FORECAST SUCKS. #
• So much hate for today, and the position I’m stuck in. #

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so which is weirder: that i have lived in chicago all this time without ever trying lou malnati’s pizza, or that when i finally did (because one moved in round the corner from my apartment and the smell of hot hot pizza has been making me crazy every time i walk home in the cold cold cold), i discovered i didn’t like it all that much?

discuss.

• Knitting a cosy beret (BECAUSE I CAN) and getting ready to go to Hammond and see about losing some money. Lazy Sunday! #

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• Wish me luck! I just decided to try and get a ticket for Channel4’s Sunday (née Friday) Night Project on 15 Jan for vaca. Cross fingers! #
• @writchrd Yes, rather! #
• Looking at old CC charges, it is a great mystery to me how Macy’s in Ohio is “Macy’s West,” while Macy’s in Chicago is “Macy’s East.” #
• Craigslist FTW! Mission: desk lamp, accomplished. Without setting foot in a Target! #

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• @robotviki +1 interpretive dance police corps! We’ll take the bike cops… and dress them in very, very scanty uniforms. #
• Irony is dead: http://tinyurl.com/6afwt3 #
• Grrrrr. http://tinyurl.com/45b46y #
• Huh. Weird. If I edit an old blog post, the twitter plugin tweets about it as though it were new. Oh well! Read it anyway, it’s funny! #
• Nothing like the Friday afternoon “quick” upgrade that results in days of work to fix. Weekend hosed and I haven’t even left the office yet. #

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• hating on 10.2 zypper and how it reacts so very poorly to unavailable repos, making automation that much more difficult. #
• “SABRINA, thank you for making your reservation online at Flamingo Las Vegas.” VAAAAAYYYYCAAAAAYYYSHOOOOOONNNNNNNN #
• Iowa: keeping winter drivers protected from unsafe driving conditions and vampires, all at the same time! http://tinyurl.com/3eszgg #
• @secabeen End of Jan, for a few days. Palm trees > winter! #
• @chowbok Will it actually let you do that? I thought that A: and B: were still reserved. Also, I want dual 360K floppies. #
• People who respond to tales of bitter cold, snow, and ice by chirping “It’s 65* here!” should be slapped soundly. #
• “If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.” –Bill Veeck #
• @mizmoose Oh yes, he’s going *down*. #
• @robotviki Maybe you got ticketed by the abstract modern impressionist police force, interpreting your speed with beams of light? #

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