Well someone had a little accident with his computer on the 21st: I kinda dropped my poor, defensless little iBook. I went to pick up my laptop bag and someone *coughmecough* forgot to zip up the laptop compartment. So everything fell out in a wonderful display of stupidity.
      It was working fine until I tried to plug the VGA in; it did the blue between changing resolutions and never came out of it. Poor thing. And it seems that all the fiddling we did made the hard drive controllers die or something along that line. Can’t find a hard drive in the OS X install CD or anywhere else. So I decided:
     TIME TO GET A MACBOOK PRO!!!!! That was my intention for most of my money anyway, but it looks like I may be able to get it a little earlier than I thought. Very exciting.
     But for now I’m stuck with just a PC. I’m actually coping pretty well. I have most of the stuff working (email, newsfeeds, aim, iTunes), just not with that Mac touch. Besides iTunes, which is of course a mac program. I even got my ipod to behave with a lil app called MacDrive. Very nice.
     So for Christmas I hope I get mostly money, cause I’m gonna need it; for both my car and for this little slice of heaven…
                                     Merry X-Mas Everyone

     Well, cars are a fun thing. Check engine light went on when I was driving home one night from work (at Duke), turns out there’s a vacuum leak somewhere. Today, the mechanic couldn’t find it. It’s idling not-so-happily; in addition, part of the exhaust manifold needs to be replaced, and we can’t find that leak either. Fun Fun. Got a Christmas tree today; I know pretty late, eh? It’s a tiny lil’ thing.
     In other news, Guster is an awesome band. I went on a small hiatus in the way of music for a few months a while ago, and came out of it after getting some of the Guster albums. I’ve had some of their stuff for a while, but to grab all of the albums was awesome. Of course, coming out of the hiatus means that all the other songs in my library, all 1400 tracks of it, are still kinda stale. So, Guster is all i’ve been listening to it. That, and most things punk-ish. I drove home to The Bots-Electronic Paradise. I played that incredibly loudly and just rocked out. Too much fun with that poor car. At least the radio works, otherwise I would probably break down…
     Sometimes I find some of my biggest fears by encountering them. I found one to be people I know getting in car crashes, and worse, dying…Please everyone drive careful; I wasn’t very close to Mark, but if it was someone close, god…I’d be gone

Goodnight
“Take ‘em away, take ‘em away, Lord
Take away these chains from me
My heart is broken ‘cause my spirit’s not free
Lord take away these chains from me …” OCMS - Take ‘em Away