Once upon a midnight dreary

[unixronin]

While I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--

...Several random thoughts and observations occurred to me.

• Bushmills makes a particularly good Irish cream liqueur.
• The wok that wambold gave me, which she never used, has become my favorite wok of the three I own.
• Uncertainty might be a cast-iron bitch, but you can never really be sure.
• Communication is great.  Corollary:  Inability to communicate sucks, whatever the reason.
• Uncertainty might be a cast-iron bitch.  (Oh, did I already mention that?)
• If God is an iron, is there such a thing as a feliciton?  And if so, what's its binding energy?
• Postulate a Really Big Rock with our name on it, big enough, soon enough, that there's not one damned thing we could do about it.  What would be the result of telling the world?  Would you tell the world?
• Q:  Why is testifying before Congress like shoplifting from a liquor store?  ... Both get you in trouble for taking the fifth.
• <pandora> Hey, big boy, wanna come upstairs and open my box?
• There is no substitute for a really good knife.
• A three-gallon hard-plastic drinking-water bottle will hold twenty pounds of Basmati rice, and turns out to make a very good container for it.  A Costco one-gallon milk bottle, with the bottom cut off, snaps perfectly into the neck to make a funnel for filling it.
• You've heard of credit where it's due.  Is an AmEx card credit when it's due?

Less existentially, I have an appointment at 0945 tomorrow at the urgent care center at Valley Medical Center to check out my right thumb, which has had some kind of infection for about a week and a half now.  I was hoping it would clear up by itself, but over the past several days it seems to have taken a turn for the worse.  The red swelling is being invaded by a growing yellow-green border next to the nail, which does not bode well.

Valley Med happens to be across the street from Pixel USA.  This is convenient, as I can take whitestar's CPU, RAM and graphics card with me tomorrow and, with luck, talk them into testing them for me.  Then once I know clearly what I need to replace, I'll be able to decide what to replace them with.  So far, all I've decided on for certain is the case, which is independent of everything else.  With luck, the HP15C I'm selling on eBay will pay for whichever parts UPS won't.

Comments

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

If God is an iron, is there such a thing as a feliciton? And if so, what's its binding energy?

Linguistics says happiness.

Would you tell the world?

No. It might change course. Anything could happen in time.

HP15C I'm selling on eBay

I still can't believe you are doing that. If you use/like it enough to pack it to take on the plane.