I fell asleep around 4 this afternoon -- I couldn't stay awake a moment more. The phone kept ringing though (my sister wanted to know how the apartment hunting thing had gone), so I'm feeling a bit groggy. Of course, tonight, when Darin and I go to bed tonight, I won't be able to sleep a wink. This just prolongs the cycle. I plan to work my way around the clock, until I'm napping at night and trying to sleep during the day.
I finally got the spring on my PowerBook fixed, so the monitor doesn't flop around any more. While We Fix Macs was fixing it, I wandered around the neighborhood and discovered why they moved to this new area -- it's a computer company intensive area. I found something else: a branch of Computer Literacy.
If you've never been to a branch of this fine book institution, let me tell you what it is: Computer Book Heaven. Nirvana for Nerds. Repository of info on all things electronic. They have a page on the web someplace, but I don't know what it is off-hand.
I killed most of the 45 minutes I had to wait there; I bought a book on the bash shell. I checked out the books on Apple Scripting -- because I'm using BBEdit so much, I'm wondering if Frontier can make my life easier or at least more high-tech (which is the important part anyhow). I perused the Dilbert t-shirts. Three guys checked me out. (This never happens in, say, Barnes and Noble, I assure you.)
Most people who go to Computer Literacy, and this includes Darin, are computer industry professionals who need no less than 10 new books every visit. I'm surprised they don't provide baskets or even grocery carts. Almost everyone who shops there has an expense account too, which is good, because computer books are so damn expensive. Unless, like me, you don't have an expense account.
CJ pointed out in my entry two days ago that I said indirectly proportional and I should have said inversely proportional. I would argue with her but she has something like 18 PhDs in Mathematics and I can't remember Thing 1 about Calculus, so I have deferred to her expertise and changed the entry.
Is it true the members of Butthole Surfers used to be accountants and lawyers?