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So. I just cleaned my laptop screen. Which is blog worthy because, well, this is the second time, in two and a half years of ownership, that I’ve actually cleaned my screen. I mean, I used Windex and a paper-towel and everything– more than just brushing it off with my hand.

The thing is, though, that the dust never becomes more than partially opaque. It’s like making your bed– your bed can either be “made” or “not-made.” When made, it will inevitably become not-made again, in short order. But if it isn’t made, it will simply remain not-made, and will certainly be no less useful for being so. I guess it’s like that with my laptop screen. It could be not-dusty, or dusty. Once it’s dusty, it doesn’t really get any dustier. It just stays dusty. Having cleaned it, however, I’m sure it’ll only be a few weeks, and it will, once again, be dusty. So … I learn to deal with the dust. I just turn up the backlight a little more, yeah? Like my bed. Ya know? I think I’ve made my bed on three or four occasions this year, including sheet changes. But… who am I trying to impress? Quan? Psh. If anything, I’m sure he appreciates that I don’t try to make my bed in the dark at 5:00 in the morning (which is, painfully enough, the hour I find myself waking up with an increasing frequency… ug!).

In the mean time, though, it’s 61′ in Bozeman, and people are walking around in t-shirts. All I can say is … damn the Bush administration for not signing the Kyoto Protocol! It’s the 6th of November. There should be two feet of snow on the ground.

That aside… it’s a short week for me. No class tomorrow, and no class on Friday. Which means I’ll have lots of time to catch up and get ahead with, uh, my school-work. Yeah. That’s the one!

In the mean time, I guess it’s time for me to see what the rest of the internet looks like with a clean screen. I’m excited! Onward!

So…

I realize that I drank two Red Bulls and the better part of a pot of coffee this morning in a span of about three hours. THEN… I tried to play my guitar with my teeth. Uh, yeah. It was a little awkward. I’ll have to work on that. I think when I …

whoa. I just lost that train of thought completely. Where’d it go?

I think I slept on the floor for like two hours this morning. I don’t quite remember though. That was between Red Bull one and Red Bull two. I’ve realized that it takes upwards of an hour for a Red Bull to kick in… which totally kills me because, usually, I don’t start drinking caffeine until I’m tired. So I think I need some cocaine. That’s FAST, right? So I can just do coke until the caffeine kicks in?

I actually got like 6 hours of sleep on Wednesday night. THEN, I got up (at like 5:00… to work on stuff), ate breakfast, played my guitar, then took a two hour naps… then got up again, ate breakfast again (second breakfast! hurray for hobbits!) and went to class. It’s a good thing that I got that nap, though– I have no idea when I went to bed last night. And no, there was no alcohol involved. I mean– who needs alcohol when you have sleep deprevation?

I’m wearing shorts, which makes no sense. It was like … 2 yesterday. By which I mean two degrees. But now … it’s warm?

Oh my. I have until 4:00 to write my second essay for my 447 take home exam. I don’t even have a thesis. Heck, I haven’t even chosen a topic. But my first essay is mostly done. Six hours. I’ll make it. I just need more … Red Bull?

Time to pay attention. Heh. That’s a JOKE! I’m going insane.

today:
2:10am – bed
6:00am – shower
6:30am – reading
8:30am – on-campus. library –> work
11:00am – class
12:45pm – econ mid-term
2:00pm – class
3:00pm – work
12:00am – off-campus –> social?

objectives:
-submit uh400 questions
-econ re-cram session
-finish 100 pages: Amusing Ourselves to Death, 90 pages Understanding Popular Culture, 40 pages New Worlds for All
-uh400 research
-brainstorm hist447 essays

tomorrow (projected):
2:00am – bed

oh, good god. and it’s only tuesday.

Firefox 2 is now available. Based on my first ten minutes with it, I’m absolutely thrilled. It’s packed with awesome new features– features that I’ve been wanting, such as better RSS handling (I can now add RSS feeds directly to MyYahoo or Google portal with two clicks, rather than a lot of copying and pasting), and features that I never expected from a browser, such as a built-in, inline spell-check feature.

And yeah, the spell-check feature is pretty awesome. When filling in text forms (such as the “comment” box below), it automatically checks your spelling, and underlines misspelled words in red, a la Microsoft Word. Right-clicking on the mis-spelled word presents a list of possible correct words. It’s super slick, and, goodness, it makes so much sense. No more pasting my blog entries into Microsoft Word to do a spell check before I post!

It also has an updated visual interface–probably a preemptive response to I.E. 7–that looks really slick.

It also builds a list of suggested search terms when you use the built in search bar with Google, Yahoo or Answers.com. Talk about slick!

It’s tabbed browsing is improved as well–links to an external window open in a new tab, for example– which only makes a great thing better.

With better tabbed browsing, however, comes the desire to be able to save and resume sessions. Firefox to the rescue! Filling out an online form and your computer crashes? No worries– Firefox even has the ability to resume sessions and repopulate form fields from before a system crash. Let’s see the I.E. Monkey do that!

The only bad thing is that Firefox isn’t on EVERY PC, so sometimes I’m going to be forced to Internet (EW!) Explorer, which lacks a fast and functional search feature, competent RSS support, or a spell-checker. And, until I.E. 7 becomes standard, it also lacks tabbed browsing.

So yeah. Download on. Here’s a link:

Catching snowflakes is such a singularly beautiful human endeavor… (Especially when it has just started snowing–) Thick, heavy flakes– that fall with a certain, profound serenity, in a thick and muting deluge…

Mmm. To live in Bozeman is such an immense privilege!