Oh meara, fuckity on the hard drive.

It feels a lot better knowing the music is on a separate drive.

Guess I should get on it and actually move those vids, huh?

Ick, Barb, feel better, okay? Ow, your poor back.

And I must go stand in the avoidy corner. It is ridiculous what circuitous routes I'll take to circumvent a dreaded confrontation. Or to postpone one. Hey, the world *could* end tomorrow and then I'll never have to face whosieface and have that stupid discussion. I win!

Daniel is an *awesome* boyfriend. My sweetie brought me luscious peaches today, though, so I think I'll keep him.

Or, in lieu of peaches or brownies, this:

Martyrs are a class of saint, and even if you haven't gotten all the merit badges for sainthood you can be classified as Venerable or Blessed and get a feast day.

Cool. We should serve cakes based on the ones in the cake disaster blog, and then ritually stab the misplaced quote marks and whatnot. And then, of course, eat them.

Having permission to ritually stab something before devouring it? SO very cathartic. Plus? Cake!

On the brief drive home, I heard this story from the BBC. Thought a few folks in here, particularly a certain Aussie: [link]

{{{meara}}} and {{{Barb}}} Fie on thee, Suckity Day!

Daniel and Beverly's DH are both winners! Yay!

I am exhausted. Dear me. I had a meeting from 8-9 this morning then promptly went into another series of meetings that lasted until 12:30 getting our show schedules set for the year. We'd get it all okay's with Athletics, then Band would conflict, then the state tests, then, then, then.... Seriously. Over 3 hours to schedule 3 shows.

Spent the afternoon working on my room and making copies. I hate making copies.

Got home, finally, around 6:45 to find out some jackass sprayed a fire extinguisher all over the 3rd floor for no apparent reason. Which set off the fire alarms. Which made the firemen turn off the elevator. And now, the firemen won't turn the elevator back on because the alarms can't be turned back on until they're cleaned because of all the fire ext. dust in them.

Have I mentioned that I live on the 5th floor?

And I have people coming over for supper tomorrow and I had to go grocery shopping tonight.

I am tired and sore all over.

Damn. Sorry. Much longer post than I originally intended!

Poor ChiKat! That sucks. I hope the elevator is functioning in time for your company.

After our desktop Mac went down, we got it up and functioning and moved all the music to an external hard drive. They actually did that at the genius bar for us.

Yeah, my previous computer, they managed to do that with it. I was hoping this one they could too, even if they couldn't actually save it, but apparently not.

I went dancing, and felt a lot better. Dancing is good. Wish I could've done it more. Sigh.

Biden does not excite me very much. Or really at all. Meh.

Biden, huh?

Makes sense. McCain is going to hammer hard on Obama's dearth of experience (hell, he already is), and Biden has that in spades. As much as I like Clinton, she doesn't, in the end, have much more experience than Obama does.

And Biden is a foreign-policy rockstar. I expect the Obama/Biden campaign to put that front and center in their platform of Change, Change, Change. I don't think there's a single nation on the planet that has any respect for us right now, and most actively hate us. That's a far cry from the way things were in January 2000. (Which you all know.) Biden is Obama's best chance at a real prospect for actual foreign relations.

Truthfully? I would have liked to see Biden as Secretary of State under Obama, but VP is really, really a very smart move. No, Biden isn't exciting. He won't deliver the pissed-off Clinton supporters, but honestly, who could? If Obama tapped Clinton and she accepted, I still think a faction of her supporters would *still* be pissed. Biden isn't a sure way to deliver Southern voters, either.

I still think he's the smartest choice Obama could have made. The key now is how the campaign's PR positions it.

Honestly? It's a lot like Dubya and Darth Cheney, except for the fact that Obama and Biden aren't pure distilled stupidity and evil. The presidential candidate is young and, if not "folksy" (a characteristic whose use as a *good* thing in a president STILL baffles me and pisses me off), someone who can and does connect with the voters. And the veep is old(er) and has rock-solid political experience.

But with much less evil.

VP isn't supposed to be an exciting choice, IMO. Cheney, Gore, Quayle, Bush Sr., whoever Carter's VP was -- none of them are rockstars. They're not supposed to be.

So, has everyone heard of/seen the cat with four ears?

Cute! The extras manage to look like horns in the pic.

He also looks like an intelligent cat. Very "there."

I just outsmarted myself. Actually, the outsmarting occurred earlier in the week when I cleaned a big wad of receipts out of my purse. Put aside, or meant to, a receipt for an item to be returned. Yesterday when I wanted to go back to that store, I could not find the receipt. Today, I searched a little more carefully, still did not find it. And then it occurred to me to look in the zipper pocket in my purse that I have been known to keep bits of semi-important papers, such as the picture of the last haircut I was thoroughly happy about. Ta Da! I did not irresponsibly toss out or lose the receipt. I just hid it from myself by putting it away reasonably.

Kinda like the time in high school when I lost a history text book for two weeks by putting it on a bookshelf.

Biden is also believed to be able to deliver on the zingers, and he's a very solid family man who commutes daily to DC from Willmington.

His son was a student at Yale when I worked there, and both father and son were very personable fellows in that setting.

Speaking of work, guess where I am? I've softened the blow of being here by ordering some hang gliding photographs with which to decorate my office. At the moment, in addition to the pictures of the dog and my wedding, I've only got framed posters of hikes my DH and I have done (Routeburn Track, Sahale Glacier, Na Pali Coast).

sprinting in to wave and say that audible.com is offering a free audio book download to iPhone users if you join something or other... I clicked through from the NYTimes using this link (not sure if it will work here):

Free audiobook! Anyone?

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