well, at least it wrapped up kinda okay, i suppose…

this would be the “holiday after party” clean up bit…

…if for no other reason that i feel like i’m beating a dead horse here. AND i had another topic in mind i was gonna lump in with this, but i decided to make that it’s own bit on monday JUST in case i’m computerless again for a day or two, ’cause…

december 23rd, 2kX – i get a malware virus causing my computer to irreversibly crash and i have to nuke the drive and start over

december 30th, 2kX

while the computer seems to be up and online and good, the iTunes STILL sounds like ass. i thought it was ’cause the sound card driver didn’t take, but i got that off the dell site and it made things worse…now i’m convinced it’s either a bad install of iTunes OR windows vista, iTunes, and my notebook just don’t party well together. any way you slice it, a BIG part of what i rely on this machine for is music so this needs to be corrected one way or another, damn it! i only count this problem as half fixed at BEST.

december 24th, 2kX – my convertible top leaks like a i’m draining pasta through it filling both front and back passenger seats with a half an inch of standing water

january 1st, 2011

okay, this one was addressed with black silicone – it ain’t pretty, but it’ll hold better than the gaffer tape i WAS using…

december 25th, 2kX – my bluetooth disappears into thin air cutting all calls (on the holiday and for a week after) shorter

december 31st, 2kX

in shitty magician slight-of-hand terms, it DID disappear into thin air – ’cause typically when they make that happen, it’s actually stashed away in something, which is exactly what appears to have happened. it seems that when i yanked my shirt over my head to take it off, jump in the shower, and get ready for the christmas meal i inadvertently yanked the bluetooth out of my ear and it got wadded up in the shirt as i tossed it in the hamper…the real blessing on this? i felt it in the shirt AS i was pulling it out of the basket to toss it in the washing machine where the water was already agitating…talk about saved at the eleventh hour!

and finally…

december 26th, 2kX – i go to deposit money in the atm only to discover my check card is missing

december 31st, 2kX

while it was found fifteen hours later at thundercloud subs (the last place it had been used and they forgot to give it back to me) it was already canceled. and since i didn’t have much going on this week i just kept cash on me and was fine…but no pay-at-the-pump? no redbox when it was grey and rainy the other day? that all pretty much sucked…but as i was getting to the end of this bit, the mail came and guess what was in it? all is well on this one…