My backgammon day got cancelled. Other guy forgot and took work. So I found the Time Warner cable office and traded in my cable box for their dvr. After some futzing, the picture looks good. But the dvr playback controls suck. When trying to rewind a little, it jumps back to the start of the program. Crazy. Still waiting for the program guide to download so I can start programming shows.

So, I've had to skip again because of computer problems. I'm in the process of figuring out the next computer I'm getting and trying to get one as quickly as possible.

My shrink started me on Strattera for ADD, since I told him I'd been tentatively diagnosised and was planning on getting tested. He ruled out the stimulant ADD meds since hyping up the brain and Bipolar disorder aren't a good choice. This takes a while to work and I'm starting to notice a difference, it's just little things. Like the other day when I came home and did 5 things that had multiple steps to get them done. It sounds silly describing it but I dind't get overwhelmed or side tracked.

I should be doing Passover cleaning. I'm not. It just looks too daunting.

So, Minnesota still has no Senator.

Someone sent this bit of funny in a letter to the editor in the Star Tribune:

Norm Coleman is doing the "Minnesota Goodbye." That's when your last party guest is about to leave and finally go home but instead they linger by your half-opened front door to chat.

"Well, it's getting late, Norm. ... Thanks for coming. ... Yup, talk to you later, Norm. ... I need to close the door now, Norm, because the cat might get out and there's a cold draft coming in. ... OK, goodbye ... I've got a really early morning tomorrow, Norm. ... Yes, bye-bye now ... Drive home safely, Norm."

Now your guest is in your driveway continuing to talk so loudly you're afraid he'll wake the neighbors. Tired and shivering by your open door, you wonder if this guy is ever going to leave and go home.

So true.

Well, I cleaned up the kitchen a bit, and broke down some cardboard boxes so that I can take them down to the garage tomorrow. That's progress, I guess.

On my LJ flist, someone who is Jewish was mentioning how she wasn't sure what the proper greeting for Palm Sunday was, to wish us Christians a good, or merry, or happy, or blessed one. And I thought... you know, I can't say we ever really bothered to offer a special Palm Sunday greeting. But then, maybe that's just my particular subculture - very fundy, not much interested in Lent or other features of the ecclesiastical calendar. It also made me wonder if I should be wishing my Jewish friends a happy, or good, or blessed... whatever... for each of the Jewish religious holidays.

For pretty much any Jewish holiday except Yom Kippur, "happy" or "good" is fine. For Yom Kippur, "Have an easy fast" is generally best.

So, making and eating a quesadilla counts as Passover cleaning, right? Since it's using up the tortillas?

that's perfect, hil. Multi tasking is good!

That sounds like the very definition of getting rid of the chametz.