My other is the 7-11 near work for nicotine. All the clerks know me.

OK, so I have a girlie question. I've heard many pregnant women get especially klutzy/loose joints due to a hormone or something. Is that same sort of hormone-thing present in the normal cycle? (NOT PREGNANT, NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER.) Because along with certain other predictable and known symptoms every month, one of my knees twinges and threatens to collapse on stairs, a couple ribs do this weird thing where it feels like they are shifting from the cartilege on inhalation, and one of my hips gets...well, weird. Like it is looser and weaker. It always goes away when the other symptoms do.

Hmmm. I am at "that time of the month", and my ankle gave out twice (I fell getting off the bus yesterday and this morning, at differnt stops). I don't know, though, although it makes some sort of sense.

Well, when women are pregnant, their hips, in particular, get looser, but this is due to the pelvic bones shifting and ligaments stretching in preparation for the screamingly unbearable pain of shoving a bowling ball through an opening the size of a lemon beauty of birthing a new being. Hormones that help the stretching and shifting may be involved, but I have no recollection of that.

Mommy's Alzheimer's-- the reason so many second children are born.

Also? ACK, meara!

Um, the good news is that when you get a new one, Time Machine is really efficient and brainless and you can get an external drive with more than enough space to use it for under $100!

It's just getting as predictable as the crank/hate/emotional low factor and the sore boobs. I just only recently made the connection.

Heh, well, I only have Tiger (10.4) not Leopard (10.5), so no Time Machine for me. I bought a new external hard drive rather than upgrade the OS. But maybe I'll do that too. We'll see how often I remember to back up. :)

Well, in getting a new one, won't it come with Panther? (Or do you mean Apple gave you the option of either/or? If so, that's LAME. Refurbs come with the latest.)

Oh, not a new computer--just a new hard drive. They popped it in while I was wandering around the mall, over in an hour. Same software as before. Sadly. Didn't update me one bit. Bastards. Think they could give me something for my trouble.

Ah, I see, I guess that makes more sense. I debated applecare, but went without for now. (I'm jinxing myself now, aren't I?) For which I might be insane, but at least I'm backing up now (didn't before.)

I know it isn't any consolation, but trials today involved our brand-new backup system for THE WHOLE UNIVERSE doing the equivalent of the spinny ball crash. Stopped acknowleging the rest of the world and we had to do a hard powercycle (laptop equiv= unplug and yank the battery.) And it hasn't even gotten 1% into backing up the old system. And by WHOLE UNIVERSE, since you know where I work, you know what I mean. Not life memory, which is much more personal, but still, pukeymaking.

It was working again by 6 but we don't yet know what happened.