Domestic Geek

I had the absolute freakiest dream last night. Marcus and I were walking down a street when we came upon a large park. It looked like an outdoor wedding was taking place. As we came upon the lattice arch, I saw that a large black hearse had crashed into it and had crushed the bride, groom and minister. As we continued on, it looked like a funeral procession had made a wrong turn, drove through the ceremony and killed everyone in attendance. Crashed cars were scattered everywhere and everyone there was dead. The weird thing was I was more worried about having left our bunnies outside in the yard (which I never do, anyway) than I was about the horrific scene I had come upon. I woke up about 1:30 am after this dream and was so weirded out, it took awhile to go back to sleep. I'd sure like to know what's going on in my subconscious that caused a dream like that.

The dude Marcus works with soldered my iPod port back on today and it's WORKING! (For now, anyway.) The guy told Marcus he couldn't guarantee how long the soldering would last. Hopefully, if I'm really careful, it will last until I can afford to get me a new 30GB one.

Lycos mail has been down for most of the afternoon/evening. I wonder if they got taken down by a virus or something. It's not like them to do "maintenance" during the day, during the week. It's usually mid-morning on the weekends and they usually give advance notice. I really hope I didn't get any important email.

I've got so much work to do, but I'm soooo damn tired lately. Planned Parenthood discontinued the pill I was on and they switched me to something else. I wonder if that has anything at all to do with it. Probably. Also being angry at work doesn't really help. I noticed something today. Our company colors are red and black. Angry colors. I've been staring at the color red for years. That's can't be helpful for my state of mind.

Well, I think I'm going to turn in early and hopefully get an early start on it all tomorrow. G'night.

Current mood: frustrated
I purchased a used iPod from a guy a couple of weeks ago so I could use it as an external hard drive as well as an mp3 player at school. It worked pretty well until Friday. I noticed the firewire plug was loose and you had to set it just right for a connection to be made. Well, I transfer my project onto it that I spent most of the evening before working on and left for school. When I plug it into the G3 there, it won't work. In a little bit of a panic because the project is due at 12:30, I tell the teacher I'm going to run home and burn a CD and I'll be right back. Well, the CD burner is in my Windows box and after transferring my Quark files over to be burned and burning the CD, the files couldn't be read by my G4. Marcus later told me that is a common problem with Quark files (they lose a resource fork or something). So, I frantically search for Marcus' iPod all the while hoping he hadn't taken it to work that day. I found it, copied my files, unplugged it from the machine, set it down to use the restroom, grabbed the iPod and rushed back to school. I plugged it in and noticed that I had managed to pick up MY iPOD (the broken one)! So, I run home again and get the correct one. Now I've wasted two hours. Needless to say, the project wasn't done on time. I ended up staying there until 3:30 to get it finished. I should've been to work about 2 or so. It ended up taking me an hour and a half to drive to work. Between the rain, the people leaving for the Labor Day weekend, the accidents, the Bronco game, it was a real nightmare. The manager was waaay not happy with me. Especially since they ran out of 16" dough since he proofed too much of it and it blew. He ended up having to make some dough. Poor baby. It still didn't make up for the prep that he was supposed to have made for me (and didn't) last Friday and Saturday while I was off in Colorado Springs with Marcus, Mike and Nina. (That's a whole different story that I may post about later.)

Well, I took the old iPod apart to see if I could fix it. My friend at work, Dave, lent me his tiny star bit screwdriver so that I could get the motherboard out. Some solder that held the firewire port broke loose and the pins coming out of it snapped. Marcus is going to see if some guys at work can solder it. Obviously, this was a bad design on Apple's part because Marcus came across several people on the web with the same problem, but no solutions. The cost to get it repaired would pretty much equal a new iPod. Since I can't afford that, I'm just hoping Marcus' friends can save it. I'll find out on Tuesday. Keep your fingers crossed.

Well, I've got dough to do in the morning, so I'm off to bed. I've got a lot I need/want to get done tomorrow.

Current mood: excited
Laura over at Lucky Star delivered her twins yesterday. Welcome little ones and congratulations to Laura, Paul and Kayley!

Since I totally ragged on the stupid chick from Selma's Yarns the other day, I feel obliged to sing the praises of another. (I would link to that post, but I've just realized my archives are jacked.) I mentioned that I had ordered the chart from someone else and the most amazing thing happened--I actually received the correct chart last Friday afternoon! It only took three, count them, three days to get it. I was soooooo happy. The store is The Rocking Horse. I'll definitely check her out first if I'm ever looking for a particular pattern. Whoo Hooo!

I've got more things to say, but I'm tired and it's late, so they'll have to wait until tomorrow.