well that was interesting

the laptop seemed to die for a while... i think the vents for the hard drive and cpu fans got clogged and appeared to shut down the hard drive, but then, it also appears that windows xp and the att communication manager were somehow corrupted (both said they were and after several re-boots, reverted back to older configurations)... it all stemmmed from downloading and installing firefox and flash/quicktime updates... i am very seriously just moments away from switching back to internet explorer, in spite of getting used to firefox and liking it... it does not render some of the pages i visit (and some of my own pages) as designed (heck, it can't even read the wing dings font)... anyway, once i blew the dust into the box to clear the fan vents (yeah, i know, a very temporary solution, i must find the right small tools to open the box and blow out the dust from the inside asap), the hard drive started coming back to life and after another off-on reboot windows xp opened again with a reverted configuration... i then copied the entire my documents folder over to my mybook while i was out playing softball (we were destroyed, by the way, but that's another story of murder and intrigue)... when i got home, after ale house and krystals, the laptop was still on, but the att aircard would not connect... a few more on-off and disconnect-reconnect deals and another corruption detected message, and here we are, finally reconnected as if nothing happened... bet you didn't even know i was gone (poke)...

yeah, i almost hooked up my old mac (i think it's a g2, but i haven't actually set it up since buying it some time ago, in fact, the same week or even day i bought this laptop, so that must be going on years now... which just proves i am insane, at least to mac users... lunatic fringe just ponder...

19-5 was the damage on the field tonight... we just could not field a ball to save our lives... and our hitting went sour... i was 2 for 2 and in the on deck circle when the last out was called... i walked one in the last inning after they already clobbered us for 19 runs... we were sad, though emotionally we had fun and seven of us went out for beer and wings and football after the game (one of us is a browns fan, so the night ended with cheers)... and i stopped for krystals on the way home, so obviously the spaghetti was fine re-boiled and all (see the previous entry to figure that one out)...

the only way life could be more fun or better is if i was sharing it with a best friend or or lover or partner and took care of the body better, but then, alone the taste buds are my favorite organ, sometimes, though only by a smidge sometimes... so what have you been up to tonight? (hope it was much fun :)