2004-05-24 - 11:58 p.m.

Trying to take care of the usual work on the computer tonight, and play another "Rowan" session when my browser just DIED! Blue screen of Death and all. Then I tried to reconnect, and it wouldn't connect for anything!

So, I tried to run a System Restore. That didn't work. Tried getting online again. Didn't work. Restarted it. Didn't work.

Then I realized this was a lot like the wierd stuff that happened when I had trouble connecting last month. Soooo... I ran SpyBot Search & Destroy and found that another swarm of killer sardines had made their way into my comp. So, I killed the bugs, restarted the machine and...

BOOM! Here I am again!

In much better news, I finally have some hours at work, albeit I'll be sacking and it's Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, but I could use the money as I'm flat out broke.

I wasn't on the comp that much today: we kept having thunderstorms pop up. One early this morning. Then another this afternoon. Then another tonight, though it hung around for a while, making omninous rumbles on the horizon.

And the shindig at the Wayside Inn for my parents' thritieth wedding anniversary is tomorrow night! Gotta get up early and get my hair cut, plus my mom has promised to help me do my nails. Yes, the Matrix Refugee does do the girl stuff once in a while! Mom has asked me to read a couple selections from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn", which is set in this very inn. It's kind of an American answer to Chaucer's "Canterbry Tales", since they both deal with a group of travellers sharing stories they've heard, though personally I prefer Chaucer: much more down to earth and honest about human nature. Granted, the speakers in the framing sections of both collections of narrative verses are meant to be type-characters, Chaucer's Miller and Reeve and the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner are much more dynamic to me than the speakers in "Wayside Inn". Must be Longfellow's Protestant background. But it's still good stuff in it's own way.

Well, had better unhook for the night, and I probably won't be back till late tomorrow night.... Tomorrow is a busy day, so I'm deliberately NOT putting the comp on till AFTER the party.

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