iPod names for msbelle:
monkey
Take This Job and Shove It
Hat
Ewan
Burger Queen

My iPod is named Willow (small, cute, techy). My computer is Enid, because ... I like Ghost World, and that's about it, really.

Awww... Lyra Jane named her computer after my mom....

ION,

Red Sox, Cubs meet for first time since '18

CHICAGO - The black cat wandered from one dugout to the other and made its way toward the Chicago Cubs’ bullpen before disappearing into the Wrigley Field stands.

How fitting.

A few days before the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs meet for the first time in almost 90 years, the poster child for bad karma shows up at Wrigley.

“He wasn’t all black,” Cubs manager Dusty Baker said after the cat sighting Tuesday night. “It was black and white, so it doesn’t mean nothing.”

"Pay no attention to that black cat wandering the field--somebody get it off the pitcher's mound!"

When Hubby was in hte hospital last, I was driving out of the parking garage late one night and had to stop as a black cat strolled across the entry way of the garage right in front of me. I'm afraid I yelled at it, something on the order of "Oh, you just stay the hell out of it, OK?" People looked at me funny.

I have never seen any critters wandering around the hospital grounds, which is four-square blocks of busy-ness. I so don't need black cats following me around, I've got one that sleeps on the bed.

I have a question for Central Time Zone people -- do you have to be at work at 8am?

8:30 is standard here. Though personally I make every effort to be in by 9. Ish.

My iPod is gonna be named Max. I decided I wanted a person name and I wanted to to work for both male & female.

IOmoreannoyingN - I have been trying to have a meeting with someone to go over about 7 tiny things - SINCE 9:30!!!! Really! I just left and told them to forget it until Monday. A million interruptions. Now my whole morning of getting the iPod set up was RUINED. Also I need to get over a feed some cats for a friend.

Frustrating, but not nearly enough to get me in a bad mood. oh HELLS no.

Are the median prices that different? The numbers really just don't seem real.

A couple of days ago (I think during "The Inside" -- so strange; what with TCM and IFC and BBCAmerica and all the DVD sets and no more Jossverse, we hardly ever watch the low channels anymore) there was an ad for starter family homes in someplace like San Mateo, starting at $750,000. Ulp.

::kisses rent-controlled apartment::

Theoretically I should be at work right now, and should have been there for 21 minutes already. But I've been delayed this morning by a coffee mishap (got the espresso machine all ready and running, except for the cup).

No iPod, and our computer has no name, but the printer at work is named Sister Boom Boom. We're due for a new one, and I'm going to push hard for it to be christened The Hero Of Canton.

Here Come The Hooker Huts! isn't exactly a perfect band name, but as an album title it would totally go triple platinum.

I already yay!ed Cashmere in Bitches, but smart, goodhearted people bringing more smart, goodhearted (and pretty) people into the world is always worth another yay, so yay!

Also, has Burrell posted any pictures of Isaac yet?

Evander's partner looks like she's giving up hope, but he seems to be enjoying himself.

I think it's a little bit cruel that America is voting to keep Evander in the competition when he so clearly sucks on every conceivable level. But, I enjoy the occasional bit of cruelty, so I'm loving every minute of it.

The one who actually bugs the most is the GH girl. She's so obviously playing the "I'm so cute and sexy. You know you want me. A vote for me is a vote for porn!" and it just bugs because she hasn't even made an attempt to actually learn the dances. Bleagh. And anyone who chooses an Enrique Iglesias song has automatic ick factor.

My co-worker and I were trying to figure out how exactly they translated the audience vote into a points total that could be combined with the judges scores. If you get 60% of the vote, does that mean you get 60 points? Does the highest vote getter get the same amount of points as the number one couple on the judges scoring table (and so on down to the lowest)? These are the burning questions in the office lunch room.

When is the ballroom dance show on?

Cashmere, you crazy close-child-spacing woman! Congratulations.

The one who actually bugs the most is the GH girl. She's so obviously playing the "I'm so cute and sexy. You know you want me. A vote for me is a vote for porn!" and it just bugs because she hasn't even made an attempt to actually learn the dances. Bleagh

She looked like she was really concentrating last week, and they bagged on her for not smiling, so she gets some sympathy from me. Rachel Hunter was bugging me last week because her partner was just tossing her around - she really looked like she had no idea what she was doing, but he made her look good anyway. But she got better, I think.

These are the burning questions in the office lunch room.

No one at my office watches it, alas. I really want to know how they combine the scores. At first it sounded like they'd just add the judges scores onto the audience votes, but that can't possibly be right. It must be some kind of ranking system, but what?

When is the ballroom dance show on?

Wednesday 9/8 central on ABC