Today I spent much of the day with K, grabbing food, visiting IKEA, and talking. It's been fun. Before we left, my laptop's power source coughed again, spitting out part of the connector between the system and the cord. This is not at all good -- while I can shove it back in there, and jiggle it again to make it work, roughly speaking, it is now even less reliable. This is practically an emergency -- no computer = very unhappy pat. If I can find my solder (I have the soldering iron found and ready), I can probably fix it, but I don't know where that went. In my urge to fix something, I took apart the light switch that only sporadically works in my dining room, and found that there's a small board that's broken -- not just a loose connection. I'm probably going to make a trip to the hardware store to pick up a new switch and frame, and hopefully my landlord can tell me which switch in the fusebox controls that part of my apartment. So, no dice fixing things today. Broken things frustrate me .. again.

I'm oddly tired. I think it was the size of lunch today. :(

While looking for the sodder, I've come to realize the truly huge number of things in my apartment that have the word "beef" or some similar variant written on them. Heh.

Oh, and I guess I need to block my parents again from the BLOG. When I get the time... Grr.

I'm sorry I disturbed your sleep patterns this week. This is the first time I read your blog. I'm new to the whole concept. I write in my journal but do not want the hassle of things like blocking my parents from reading it--although in my case it might help things if they did. BTW, the threat you mention will never come to fruition. I wish it hadn't happened; my clumsy way of handling people comes from a lack of energy for consideration and empathy for others. I hope it isn't tiring you out. Have a good night, and try to get some sleep so that you can enjoy not having a reliable computer :)