"How much is a new Touch? My version won't run iOS 5." "Mine runs 6, and we have the same one...what error message do you get when you try and update it?" "How do you update it?" "Attached to iTunes?" "I don't attach it to iTunes."

Okay, I can talk you through that, but what it comes down to is that she hadn't noticed the up arrow was the eject symbol, so she was never getting to the screen where all the magic happens. How clear is that to unexpecting eyes on a laptop cranked up to highest res? I see it because I know it.

Shel Silverstein inspired shirt. I think the first one might interest some here. [link]

I don't know what algorithms Swype uses for it's predictive text, but after a text question about blanks recoil, the first word of the next sentence was to be I, What, or Castiel. I almost feel ashamed. Next time I will play along and let it write a Castiel sentence and see what it wants to tell me.

I think the first one might interest some here.

Yessss! That fucking book.

I'm so tired, you guys. I couldn't fall asleep last night, so I got back up and made some lists and then ended up finishing my book. Zzzzzzzzz.

I think the first one might interest some here.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA yes indeed.

Day Four of Unemployment Part II (which is way less fun than Wrath of Khan): I went running, did laundry, and made a batch of molasses/five-spice cookies. (Basically molasses cookies but with five-spice instead of cinnamon, really tasty.) Now I have paid my bills and I have to go pick up Dad and take him to see the USS Hornet, an aircraft carrier turned into a museum.

Later I will buy new headphones at Best Buy.

Since the BART strike is looming and it looks like the bus drivers might go out as well, I'm just as glad to be getting out of town: I'm off to Chicago for a week, where I will hang out at my brother's farm in southern Wisconsin and eat for cheap at his restaurant. Gotta take advantage of being unemployed while I can...

Since the BART strike is looming and it looks like the bus drivers might go out as well

Que? That doesn't sound awesome.

Signed
Coming to San Francisco a week from today

Shit. Maybe we'll keep the rental car instead of returning it. How likely is the strike to happen?

Where are you going in San Francisco? You probably won't need the BART, unless you were planning to go to the East Bay.

People! I need cute pictures or happy stories, please, while I sit in my office with the door closed, waiting for the urge to go tell a particular person to go f*ck themselves to pass.

I may be here a while.

Coming to San Francisco a week from today

That's the day the strike is likely to start. Keep the car. Unless you're planning to just stay in the city, in which case take a taxi or Uber from the airport and use Muni to get around. As a tourist, you'd only really need BART to get to the East Bay and to/from the airport.

And yes, it's ... likely. According to my sources.