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Semester’s over. I’m on vacation. That is all. See you December 28th.

Damn, it’s been a while.

Things I hate right now:

• Canada Post. After mailing at least a hundred UNNA CD sets in the same padded mailing envelopes using lettermail postage, this week they decide to return my latest two mailings because they do not conform to lettermail specifications. They’re actually “oversized lettermail”, meaning I get to add an extra $0.70 postage. Thanks for telling me now… I need smaller mailers.
• Rogers Cable Internet. I thought the transition was going great, but then today they’re having massive problems with DHCP. Should be fixed tomorrow, they say. gah. ‘scuse me while I set up a cron job for DHCP…
• Mozilla builds have been sucking hard lately.

Okay, that bit of venting is done. Things that are good right now:

• One exam down, three to go. Only one nasty exam to go.
• Many Buffy VCDs. Yay.
• Related to the above, I got my ATI TV Wonder card the other day. Works great for recording to VCD files. Kickass.
• Oh yeah. The semester’s over. And I might just pass and get decent grades in all my classes, for the first time ever.
• This page now over 15 000 hits. w00t.

That is all.

This morning I downloaded today’s Buffy episode, 10 hours before it will be broadcast. Yum.

…is the sound of the new washer/dryer. It’s a good sound. Except that our stove isn’t hooked up yet. But it should be today. When your landlord goes out and randomly buys a new laundry centre for your unit, you know they’re good.

This is entry #400. Cool. We’re just under 15 000 hits on the front page. Nifty. I guess people do read this.

Sandy bought the Barenaked Ladies “best of” disc. In my opinion, I already own their “best of” albums: Gordon and Maybe You Should Drive. The only song I really like after those is Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank. Sure, I’ll listen to their older stuff, but I greatly enjoy giving He’s Not the King of Bedside Manor a spin.

Dream: myself, Sandy, random characters from that damn movie, in some kind of WWII espionage plot. Weird.

Fujitsu hard drives are all cursed. That is my final conclusion. All of them. Utter garbage. Do not buy a Fujitsu hard drive, ever. I think I’m going to start a new policy of “no Fujitsus.” If your machine has a Fujitsu hard drive, I’m not going to touch the bleeding thing. No. Away with you. Go buy yourself a nice Quantum or Maxtor. A Fujitsu died in my hands today. It had important data on it (not mine). It should not have died. I did nothing wrong (independently verified). Now it will cost hundreds of dollars to recover the data.