fractalnavel

location note: north of detroit.  the lord and lady of the manor (manner?) have departed for a biking related fall color tour in northern michigan.  i got my tour on the way up here ;-) 

just a short note, a bit pooped after wrestling with my yardwork, bills, isp's and dvd burning the last couple of days.  everything wanted to quit on me in the middle of everything else.  finally got most stuff settled, with the exception of the dvds.  if it's not one thing, it's another.  even spent some time looking for a usable utility to close the cd tray, since my arms aren't 300 miles long.  everything has an “eject” option, nothing has “close”.  weird.  but even after getting the tray closed, the new burner software is offering up yet another obscure error.

of course, having my broadband going out just as i was starting to pay bills (coincidentally, right after i paid the cable bill) didn't help any.  then the dial-up access quit too.  this was after i discovered that my online resume, on my aol webspace, had decided to quit working sometime in the months since i last checked it.  appears to be an aol issue with dhtml behaviors delivered via .htc files.  so i moved that over to my own space, because i had just told a job lead where my resume stuff was, and pointing people at broken crap isn't good.  not that it mattered much, since it wasn't long after i had moved things onto my own server that the broadband went away.

sigh.  the silicon gods must've been bored and looking for a laugh.  i'm going to sick the flying spaghetti monster on 'em.

meanwhile, it's nice to have home cooking.  mmm, chicken noodle soup ;-)