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Alright, so, next time I see a situation where somebody's thing is going to fall through and I'm in a position to possibly save the day, but only if I work quickly and get lucky, I'm gonna take a step back and say to myself, "Nathan, if the only way to save this is by being a hero with lightning heels racing into a potential...
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mk700c:
oh and your profile pic just made me really hungry.

and then really pissed because Kosmo just closed 10 minutes ago.
onlyoblivion:
If you had more experience with being upper management, you'd've learned that by now. biggrin

Also, I hunger for brutally honest critiques.
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$400+ later, I'm back in business.

What happened, while I was out having a grand time, was my power supply and motherboard finally carried out their suicide pact and shivved eachother in the showers, just like they'd planned.

Now there's a trick with replacing a motherboard when you're running WinXP. No matter why your motherboard leaves its position (retirement, layoff, firing for gross misconduct--it's all...
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archernu:
I have the uncanny and somewhat unnatural ability to break computers and other electronic with a touch. Seriously. I'm no longer allowed to load movies into the DVD player in my apartment.

I'm glad that you're operational again. I take it your writing wasn't lost to the void? Excellent news.
facet5:
thats funny. i used to do this for a living. i must admit i tried coaxing, stroking, naming, cajouling, threatening (with and without hammer), but never, ever in five years did I think of gorlla uit. dam fine. thanks.
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It's not the power supply.

Fuck.
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adjunct:
I normally hate to bond with people over shared musical tastes, since it seems to be the most empty form of connection of any of those usually bandied about by people of our generation; however, noticing (for the first time) Eric Dolphy at the top of your list made me remember my struggle to learn bass clarinet, flute, and a variety of other reed instruments in high school, always while thinking "if Dolphy could do it, so can I."

I'm also trying to give you something to come back to other than, "that sucks about your computer," although I certainly agree with that sentiment.
oryx:
The View from this End was fantastic. it made me cry and it made me laugh. thank you.
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Sometime during a splendid evening out with Superflea and his delightful lady, my computer's power supply kicked the crapper.

At least I hope that's what happened. I mean, there's the other possible diagnosis, which is that my computer is totally fucked and the stuff I was working on--not the poetry and other inherently ephemeral and pointless crap, but the stuff I needed to turn in...
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tadzi:
RIP power supply
obd:
I hope it's not terminal.
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I thought she said she was making me dinner when she called me at the office, but now I come home and there appears only to be stuff for her to make dinner tomorrow, and seeing as we're having company over I'm not free to err.

At the moment, she's at yoga and I'm famished.

Leftover tuna casserole it is!

UPDATE

That was close. The...
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superflea:
Okay - so what's the agenda???

The girl wants to hit Square One for a period in the afternoon, so we could get together there, or afterwards, and do dinner, drinks, fraternizing, scheming, collaborating, plotting, or any of a number of equally unsavory assemblies.

I have no idea what there is to do tharabouts.

But it'll be a hoot.
felicia_____:
Thank you.
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People are always more interesting than words like "mean" can convey. I'm learning.

Datta, dayadhvam, damyata; each balanced against the other, leaning, lengthening spires, breaking up from hard ground.
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alisa:
thank you so much for my birthday wish. i'm sorry that it took me this long to say so.
antiprincess:
I'm lately finding words to be entirely insufficient.
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Topic for a PhD in music/biochemistry: "Blues in open B(ar): the effects of narcotics on fretboard harmony in 70s rock music".

Having just discovered how to sound like Keith Richards without employing an open tuning (one more miracle chalked up to the wonders of inversions) I understand now why I'll never be good at playing real rock and roll, and why nervous, friendly white people...
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legionnaire:
Hmm.... I guess through my combination of experience with playing the guitar, experience using drugs and knowledge about biochemistry, I'm probably the most qualified person to answer your response who's going to read your journal. Unfortunately, there's not much I can come up with to help. The only thing I can really think of as an analogy would be shooting pool - there's sort of a curve that your playing ability follows with respect to have many drinks you've taken, where after 1-2 drinksk you play much better, then 3-5 drinks play much worse. The former effect is likely due to simply being more loose and less concerned with the minor technical details of playing than the overall goal of the game, and less self-conscious. The latter effect is, well, the effect of the drinks (or in the case of the music, the heroin.) Sorry, that's the best I can do.
oryx:
i know, but shhh... don't tell my mom.
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A bim beri glassala glandrid
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scopitone6248:
I prefer brunettes as well. I think its how unfairly proportioned she is. Something about tall/thin women with ample breasts does something for me. Blame Robert McGinnis or Phil Noto.

Did you know shes with Seal. Soulkissedalawnmower Seal. Their child will either be one of those incredibly lucky light skinned blacks with blue eyes or some horrifyingly freckled monstrosity forced to live out the rest of their days as a reclusive Balinese Mask Maker. Or something less comedic and plain.
velocity:
Thank you. I'm feeling better now.
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Sudden flash of insight after viewing "Big Fish".

Tim Burton is a fucking hack. The most interesting thing about him is his hair, and maybe his wardrobe.

But his production designers are first-rate.
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kestrel:
I didn't like that movie.
velocity:
Yeah, it takes effort to be a person though, and I haven't had many naps lately.
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If I don't start updating more regularly, you're going to start thinking I've gone and gotten a life.
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velocity:
Life? You? Psh, what she said.
obd:
nope. I was assuming it was the job.