Thank you.

See, computer? The internet tells you to behave.

Problem is, you can't convince me to dump him. Not until Sunday, anyway.

[Edit: remember that line Kaylee told Simon in "Firefly" about not using swear words? That's where I am right now. The perfect time for a swear word. Though I tend to choose chocolate. I have the best chocolate-chips cookies in the world. I should add them to the "acknowledgments" page.]

It's him!

You poor thing. Nothing like computer psychosis when you're on such a deadline. Uhg. LaTex always made me spit.

Another crazy day.

OK, on pretty much the exact second I typed the "perfect time for a swear word" line? The Windows machine I'm connecting to (the one that's not mine) decided it's the perfect time to install updates and restart itself, no matter how I tried to click the"restart later" option.

It apparently was a perfect time for *something*.

sara, I'm sorry your day was crazy. I wish this crazy-time-for-me could at least spare other people some of the crazy!

Hey, I should be eating up the crazy for the next 4 months. NO idea why it appears to be bleeding over to you.

Today was the only day this week that I did not take umbrellas, only day it has rained on the way home.

Anyhoo mac and I sang "rain rain go away" and mac even yelled a few times at the sky to "just stop it".

NO idea why it appears to be bleeding over to you.

Nah, I think it comes as a package deal with the whole deadline notion. Oh, well. We can share. I wish I could share my cookies with you, too, at least.

Anyhoo mac and I sang "rain rain go away" and mac even yelled a few times at the sky to "just stop it".

This made my day middle-of-the-night better. I'm sorry it had to be on the expanse of you getting wet, but still. Thank you.

Yeah, why doesn't the sky listen to mac?

This is charming: [link] ETA: the audio slideshow linked to it is neat too. The cyclist is a great narrator.

So, the let's-do-the-exact-same-thing-I'm-not-kidding-it-was-exactly-the-same-from-scratch thing seems to begin to work. So far, tfu tfu, things seem to talk to each other, when I have to use three (!) different computers in order to take the part-which-works in each one of them.

One small step, one giant leap, and all that.

Phew. A mini-phew.

(Right before clicking "post" I realized - is there anywhere else where they say "tfu tfu", against the "evil eye"?)

I hadn't heard that before! The neck of the woods I grew up in, it was sign of the cross (large catholic population.) Probably less common a habit in Israel...

I will choose a different superstition and knock on wood for Nilly.