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I am such a terrible blogger. I only post once a week at best. I should post more its not like I couldn’t but for some reason I just don’t. Anyway last week was sort of disgustingly taken up with getting caught up from my trip. I actually was really freaking busy last week. I had a few wee adventures though. One thing that was very nice was I heard from HWKDD a couple of times. It’s getting much closer to when he’ll be coming home. So I am getting all a twitter about that. Anyway Weds I went to my SNB it was fun and my scarf was much admired. It’s hard not to admire it though. Thursday since I got very much in a tizzy over what to wear with my dress when I pick up HWKDD I went to Nashville to hunt for matching yarn. Go see my knitting blog for a full account of those adventures lest I bore you too much. While I was gone on Thursday the parts for my new incarnation of Ishtahar (my desktop) arrived. I ended up getting an AMD Athlon 64 3700 and a motherboard that had some weird XGP slot. It was an attempt to stave off the horror of having to plunk down for a new video card. This adventure made me semi-convinced that God had decided that I was target #1 (I’m KIDDING) So anyway Friday I clean out the old case…and get to work. It’s going along swimmingly until I realize that my existing power supply will not work. Different size connectors. So I hunt around online only to be almost 100% positive I can’t find what I want locally. But I had a couple of hours to kill until I could reasonably head over to my friend Arra’s for beer and pizza (I had neither but I did have a glass of wine. Circuit city did actually have the power supply I wanted so I picked that up. Then I went to Arras for entertainment and we watched “Kinky Boots” a brit film about a shoe company who makes a niche market for itself making and selling stiletto’s to drag queens. I liked enough that I didn’t want my 2 hours back. After that I came home and went back to work. The PS kicks so much ass. It has a mesh condom like sheath over the cables and a modular system so its much easier to keep clean and since its modular its a much smaller nest of nastiness. This was when problem #2 reared its ugly little head. The mobo and my case have different ideas of how to turn on. The case uses an electrical something or other while the board likes to be physically pushed in. I doubted I could find a case locally so I’m holding off until I next go to Nashville. But then in the midst of my cursing and sorrow my video card did work. So all and all not a total disaster. I’m really liking the new box. Its fast as hell. I imagine with more ram and a new vid card it will be superfanfreakingtastic. Saturday was less than exciting with house cleaning since I did none Thursday and Friday. But it had to be done. The office is still torn apart but I am going to repack all our boxes and list what’s in them anyway so we can you know find stuff. It’s time for me to do the reorganization I’d been planning on since HWKDD left. I also need to somehow create space for all the stuff he’ll be sending home. I don’t know why but it seems like we have less and less space. That’s probably most certainly my fault. On the diet/exercise front..well I’m now down 17 lbs since august something or other. Not too shabby. Another 20 to go I think. I also worked out on Saturday with this new system and oh my god I am still sore. I’ve been reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. I can’t quite decide if I like it. Its a bit slow. On the other hand its fairly entertaining. I just don’t find myself compelled to read more than 20 minutes of it before I fall asleep at night. That’s usually not a good sign. Today I have big plans of starting work on the office and I have to go out and run some errands. Also my front flower beds are looking disgraceful so I need to weed those once the sun starts going down. I also have to cast on for my next two knitting projects. Project 1 is socks but that’s a perpetual thing and Project 2 is my thing to go with my dress. Anyway off to laboring I go…