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Friday, November 10th

Starting off on the wrong foot...

The day didn't start off that well, all because of my Christmas flight itinerary. There are two things which I hate most in life. One is dealing with bills and reconciling bank statements, the other is arranging my travel plans. There was a time in my life when I had everything in perfect order. These days, I'm lucky if I can just remember to show up at the airport. Even my criteria for picking men has come down to those two things. Ifyou would just pay my bills and arrange my flights, you shall be my Knight in Shining Armor, forever.

Once we accept things we cannot change...

I had purchased a ticket home on Delta using the Travelocity.com website and wasn't all that happy with the departure times to begin with. 24 hours later, I get a message that there's been a change in schedule and that I need to call and reschedule. RIGHT. Like that's a priority for me. So I put that off for a week until I got another message from the Delta office in Taipei. Somehow, they had tracked down my home phone number and left a message for me there. Scary.

So I finally called this morning, and after going back and forth for what seemed like forever, my only choice was to route through - get this - CINCINNATI. Even worse, it's a FOUR HOUR stop over. And even worse than that, it's on my birthday. Yet another disadvantage of being a Christmas baby. I have been on a plane on my birthday every year for the past 10 years of my life. And that, my friends, SUCKS.

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Then it got much better.

I got in this morning to find a totally awesome email from Gus. He fell upon a really simple HTML code that puts some special effects to your webpage, and that did it. I was there. I played around with the various effects for what seemed like hours, and all the while kept laughing at it. It's all kind of corny, because all of a sudden it makes my journal entries seem like t.v. comedies, which by the way, they are NOT.

Then, my laptop died.

I had to put the thing to rest after the screen dimmed to a low minimum. It actually still works quite well but it's too much of a hassle to take it in and get it fixed, so instead, I whipped out my Uncle Michael's old AcerNote that he let me borrow from last year. That thing is HEAVY, but it will do for now. I most definitely like the feel of the keyboard, and the fact that it doesn't use a mouse. Still, I wouldn't mind one of those Acer Travelmates...

Other than that, it's been a relatively uneventful evening. It is still raining and has been for the last week and a half. Laurie, Adella and I grabbed dinner across the street, and I spent the rest of the night working on the ORIENTED site and my own. Boring, eh?

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