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Saturday, January 17, 2004 Today I am feeling: Bitten 
Books I am reading: The Years of Rice and Salt Kim Stanley Robinson Games I am playing: Sim City 4 Rush Hour I've been bored the last few days, and so I decided to go over to the Apple website and read up on those silly mini iPods and it got me thinkin', yannow, if those things were about a hundred bucks less and looked more like this: 
Original image © Apple Computer, Inc., modified by yours truly I might actually buy one. Those big blindingly white wheels on the real ones are just aesthetically jarring in my opinion. And I think Apple must use mind control because ever since visiting their site, and reading some of the posts in their support area, I am now seriously lusting after a G4 iBook, but, lucky for me, I am hideously poor and can't even afford an eMachine PC. It's good to know though, that Jesus is anti-Apple ... wait a minute, actually that's a bad thing ....
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Posted at the speed of blight by NONOBADKITTY!
Friday, January 16, 2004 Today I am feeling: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 
Books I am reading: The Years of Rice and Salt Kim Stanley Robinson Games I am playing: Sim City 4 Rush Hour I had a dream about Michael Jackson last night, but in my dream he was wearing an ankle-length black chiffon dress that was a cross between a Diana Ross gown and those whacky clothes characters in Japanese RPG games wear, and as he was strolling into court he was eating a bag of Cheetos. I dunno what that means, but he looks, as one of my online friends said, quite like Mary Poppins in that picture, and Mary Poppins wears a black dress ... hmmm ... it's all becoming clear to me now .... My MJ dream also melded into a dream about the Osmonds ... after MJ went into court in my dream I wandered around the buildings (which were oddly empty, I guess everyone was out stalking Michael) and I found one which resembled a ballroom, with wood paneling and railing and big ugly chandeliers, and in it the Osmond Brothers (whom I quite despise) were giving a concert ... but I was sitting in the front row right next to Jimmy Osmond! Flashback! I had a major crush on him as a young Mormon teen, and I met him once in Vegas because my mom knew someone who played in the orchestra at their show so he invited us backstage and I got to wait for HOURS (well it seemed like it) for them to come out and I got to meet Donny and Jimmy who were very sweet and quite cuter in person than on television, and Marie who was well, let's just say she was preoccupied with a phone call for quite some time and apparently didn't like doing the whole autograph signing for young impressionable fans very much. Or she had PMS, I dunno which. Anyway, I think somewhere I still have those photos they signed for me. The best part though was after I met them I got to go with my mom's friend to the "secret" room in the hotel restaurant to eat dinner and got to spy on the entire Osmond clan while they ate their meal and I ate mine, only a table away with no one else in the entire room. Damn no wonder I'm dreamin' about them. Or maybe it was that I was downloading some songs off MusicMatch last night and listening to clips from Osmond songs and Jackson Five songs ... yeah, maybe that's it. In cat news, I re-arranged furniture again last night, much to my cat's delight, and I say that with unbridled sarcasm. I removed all her favorite "perch and destroy" spots but I saved her hidey hole and even created a new one for her, plus a "peeky spot" where she can hop up high on top of my computer desk/alcove thingie and peep through the window at the neighbors. Other than that, no news ... which I guess is good news.
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Posted at the speed of blight by NONOBADKITTY!
Wednesday, January 14, 2004 Today I am feeling: fine
Books I am reading: The Years of Rice and Salt Kim Stanley Robinson Games I am playing: Sim City 4 Rush Hour I took my kitty to the vet today for oh boy! Shots! Yay! Poor kitty was not happy, she had to get three shots, but she didn't bite anyone, they said she was a "very good girl". The good part is one of the shots she won't have to have again for 3 years, so next year she only needs to get two. Plus I got a free bonus Rabies vaccination certificate so as long as I move before January 14, 2007 she'll be "legal". Other than that kitty is fine, we've had nice weather the last few days so she's been out chasing bugs and whatnot although she is becoming more of a homebody, sometimes she doesn't want to go outside even when given the chance, which is good, plus when she does go out she usually stays in the yard, which is fine with me. In other news, the grocery strike is still going on, and supposedly the picketers are back at Ralphs, haven't noticed though since I haven't shopped recently, but given there were usually only 4-5 picketers at the stores before, if some of them go back to Ralphs that means it'll be more like 2-3 per store. I think the picketers should just all get together and call their union en masse and DEMAND the union let them vote again on the offer from the stores, any offer, even the most recent and not as good revised offer from last month. Even if the strike does end in "favor" of the union, most of the stores will close anyway and those employees will be out of a job (those that haven't either already gone back or gotten new jobs by now) and the consumers are gonna get screwed no matter what happens. Speaking of Ralphs though, last time I was there I noticed a change of ownership notice on the door, but I dunno if it's related to the strike or what, or who is gonna own them, might just be they'll change to a Kroger's which is the parent company. But it would be cool if they put something like a Trader Joe's in there, I love Trader Joe's (and that has nothing to do with the strike either.) But it might just be a mini-Wal*Mart or something. Lemme see what else ... school starts in a week and a half ... oh! There was a MacWorld conference last week and all the Mac Geeks were all atwitter about rumors they'd heard of a new tiny cheap iPod that was going to be announced and they were all hoping it would be about $100 and I was thinkin' hell Apple is greedier than Microsoft, no way they'll sell anything that cheap, they make their junk in Taiwan with cheap 50-cent a day labor (ok maybe not that cheap but they're not paying Union wages, I guarantee you that) then they sell it for about twice what it's worth in the real world. But alas, even I was hoping the rumors would be true, cuz I dig those little iPods, but they're way outta my budget (and they won't run on my crappy computer anyway) but if they had been $100 or less I woulda put them on my "I'll get one when I get a new computer" list. But alas, Apple, in its marketing brilliance, released the new 4 gig Mini iPod for $249 ... which is only $50 less than the 15 gig model of the normal iPod. So, as many people noted, why would you buy a $249 4 gig pod when for "only" $50 more you could get one with 15 gigs? As I said, marketing brilliance. Not only does Apple sell a few mini pods to the trendy folks, lots of people who woulda bought the old 10 gig at $299 will now buy the 15 gig pod for the same price and think they're getting a deal! And the mini pods will become collector's items like the G4 cubes they came out with a few years ago. I do gotta say though, I like the design of Apple stuff [hardware and software] but I'm not rich so I can't afford both a PC and a Mac and well, I could buy 2 PCs for what one Mac would cost, or I could buy 1 PC and a carload of games and software. But I am kinda tempted to get one of those little iBook things, they're cute and actually cheaper than most laptop PCs ... and I could almost get one of them plus a barebones basic PC for what it would cost me for a "good" PC. I'm kinda tempted ... but I gotta wait and see what happens with school cuz I gotta make sure I'll have enough money to finish. Ah, the joys of being a poor loan-dependent student. Hopefully I'll get a decent summer job, I hear the grocery stores might be hiring ....
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Posted at the speed of blight by NONOBADKITTY!
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