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I haven't written anything in a while but don't have anything worthy of a blog entry of it's own. Here comes a brain dump:

• Spent Valentine's weekend in Philly with Meg. We went to Dave & Buster's (which was totally Meg's idea, not that I protested) on Saturday and to The Philadelphia Museum of Art on Sunday after staying at the Wyndham Hotel nearby. On Valentine's Day I sent Meg a dozen roses at work. She received a few death threats from jealous old ladies at work, so I got that going for me.
• I've been sick since Wednesday night. What started as a tickle in my throat progressed to a nasty sore throat by Thursday morning. This rapidly changed into a runny nose that wouldn't quit. Today, my nose is still a snot faucet, and I think it may be turning into a sinus infection. If I'm not better after some serious "stay in bed and drink lots of juice" this weekend, I'll be hitting up a doc for some antibiotics, I guess. Anyone know if this Airborne stuff Stern has been shilling actually works?
• On a related note, I've been really bad about going to the Y and working out, but this head cold sure isn't going to allow that. I don't have as much of an excuse for the slacking before this past weekend though. If you don't see an update Monday or Tuesday of next week about me going to the gym, yell at me, ok?
• I want to find a good Wifi card for my laptop that will work in linux. Looks like support for 802.11b is pretty stabilized, but things are more up in the air for 802.11g. Any one have a recommendation of a card they've found that works well? Maybe a combo card? 802.11a would be nice too, but entirely unnecessary. I'd really like one that works with Kismet too, so I can get my wardrivin' on.
• My palm is still broken, but Meg took it by Circuit City today, where it was purchased from, and they said I still have a warranty, but I need to do some digging to find all the paperwork. That is going to prove to be quite the exercise, I'm sure. Paperwork is so overrated. I think I'd give up my left testicle (always been a favorite of mine) if I could never have to deal with marking dead tree with dark pigment in the vague shape of the iconographs that map out the sounds of my name, and have to file away, and remember the location of, said marked dead tree fragments to presentation at a later date. Why can't I just get by with fingerprints, DNA swabs, retina scans and the ever present pan-opticon records of transnational corporations/governments to keep track of this crap?

  **Deep Breath** Ok, maybe not my left testicle. Maybe Wyatt's left testicle. He's not using 'em. (oooh! Burn! Made sweeter by sheer randomness! (I was gonna say Ben, but he's started to use his, or something.( more parentheticals! (wee!))))

• My Dad and I have been trying to fix* the leak in our upstairs bathroom, but it still leaks a little, so there is still a hole in the downstairs ceiling, and a new, nicely cut hole with a door in the bedroom wall opposite the bathroom. I don't think Meg's very happy with the "improvements."
  
  *That means I've been doing a lot of flashlight holding. Except I can't find my rechargeable flashlight. Who took it?
• staying at work to finish blog entries is crazy talk. I'm outta here.