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I just ordered an iTrip from someone on eBay (someone who has 100% positive feedback with over 7,000 transactions – hard to imagine!).

Now I can inflict “It’s Raining Men” on my Poor Innocent Children.

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Unfortunately, many things that in an ideal world wouldn’t have gone wrong went wrong (rotten sill, for example – I tuned the rest out, along with the lovely sound of the SawsAll…) so what should have been a somewhat trivial project ended up taking the whole weekend. Sigh. But hey, maybe this will mean no more frost on the porch floor on cold mornings! That’s got to be a positive outcome…

(I learned my lesson from the great [and still unfinished] bathroom remodel – TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS! Those of you who were unlucky enough to SEE the bathroom before we destroyed it, you know what I mean. No one else will ever truly and fully comprehend the horror.)

Friday, after yet another battle with my children over what is, after all, my computer, I snapped and ordered them their own damned computer. No more finding my computer locked up with seventeen browser windows open. Think of all the hard drive space I’ll be able to reclaim after the two Jedi games, Arthur, Carmen SanDiego, Crayola, and three Harry Potter games are gone! ROOM FOR MORE iTUNES, BABY!

(yesterday’s guilty pleasure: “It’s Raining Men”)

Easter is almost over! Spring Break is almost over! Normality can resume!

(I need to photograph the back porch, too – it’s a mess right now.)

I think I’m about to change my mind about this whole thing. The side I thought I was on is full of scary people.

There is now Terry Schiavo fan fiction.

And of course, Get Your War On takes a look at the issue as well.

The American Bar Association has a “toolkit” for healthcare advance planning, complete with questionnaires and conversation-starters.

I have been extra, super, it’s-not-just-the-coffee, jittery recently – I am assuming that this is STRESS. This particular Holy Week has been a nightmare, especially since my office-church is hosting the joint Vigil service on Saturday night. Two, not just one, 24-page bulletins. Sigh. One down, one to go, but tomorrow is IT. I’d spend Friday DRINKING, but I think I’ve managed to invite three kids over to play with my kids, so that probably wouldn’t be a good idea. Alas. Maybe after they go to bed…no, wait, I’ll be at CHURCH, OF COURSE…..

And while I’m bitching, can I just say how VERY ANNOYED I was at the snow still on the ground this morning? I was not able to take my nice shiny new morning walk. My day was ruined. I shoveled a bit (waste of time – it all melted pretty quickly) but I still felt CHEATED. It colored the rest of my day to a surprising extent.

It’s SPRING, OK? So ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING SNOW!

So I’m already looking on eBay for an iTrip (broadcast over the FM radio in your vehicle) and of course I’ll need a car charger if I want to use the iTrip, and probably one of those cradles to attach to the dashboard somehow ………………………..

Hello, anybody there? George Kennan, remember him? He has apparently died. I wonder if the US news media will get around to mentioning it, in between news bites on “American Idol” and overpaid athletes and their drug problems (“I’m shocked, SHOCKED…”).

I was at the library today.

In a different town.

The librarian remembered my name.

I go to this library maybe once every two or three months.

I was fairly freaked out.

Possibly I am easily freaked out.
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