how do you live so happily while i am sad and broken down?

Has anyone seen the new Muppet movie?

If so, does this song appear in the movie pretty much as it does in this clip?   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTjksM3YAs 

I need to know for science. 

Does anyone use Wachovia? Is their free checking really free? Anyone have any IRAs with them?

I'm still trying to get away from Bank of America, yes. It may take years.

So I finally got around to setting this up (on one laptop anyway). Does anyone know if there's a way to get your icons to match up when crossposting from Dreamwidth to LJ? I've looked on the faqs, but can't seem to find anything that mentions it.

In other news, I re-watched Julie & Julia tonight - I've blogged for years, no one has wanted to publish me! :( But still, a cute movie.

ETA: Well that was stupidly easy. If the keywords match exactly, it posts. I'm a dork.

Ok, so this morning I went into my networked hard drive to delete a sub-folder I didn't want, and accidentally deleted the whole folder. Vista apparently thinks that things from a networked hard drive don't need to go to the recycle bin. What was in this folder you might ask? All of the music I've downloaded in the last six months, including several mixes from Bandom Big Bang that are mostly unrecoverable if I can't get the files back.

So I've spent this morning downloading file recovery programs from CNET. I can't find one that can search networked external hard drives (I have an IOMEGA drive). Does anyone out there know of something that could help? I'm willing to pay for the software if it's reasonably priced.





GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

Looking for a quick, completely unscientific poll here:

When did you first go online, and what was it like?

I got my first laptop in 1998 and that's when I went online. It was all AOL chat rooms, complete with skeezy guys trying to have cybersex.

So I'm considering breaking down and buying a laptop for personal use, mostly because I'm about to break my third laptop in a year and work may start getting annoyed with me soon. Believe it or not, I don't actually know that much about computers - I haven't bought one since 1998. I've always used what the company gave me. I've only ever bought Compaq's, and I was happy enough with them, but they are more expensive.

I don't want to spend much more than $400. I need it to surf the internet, download music/manage iTunes (all music stored on external hard drive), write, IM, & minor photo editing (mostly in the 'rotate and lighten' arenas).

Does anyone know about Acer? ASUS? eMachines? Velocity?

Anyone familiar with Frys: Have you ever bought anything refurbished, and how did that work out?

Those of you with the mini-laptops - do you like them? will they do all the things I want to?

Thanks in advance!

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I am so bad at dealing with things when plans change. So here's the deal: today, I was supposed to have a tennis match. It was supposed to start at 1pm, and go till probably 5 or 6. It's a home game for us, which means we're responsible for feeding the other team so I stayed up until midnight last night baking cookies. At noon, our captain calls because the other team captain is refusing to play because it sprinkled this morning.

Ok. A) It wasn't actually raining at the time. B) The courts are dry. C) It's a WINTER tennis league. The weather's been crappy every game I've played or gone to so far. We even went to this team's courts when it was raining and waited for the rain to stop, and then played on their slightly wet courts. No puddles? Game on, I say. So to the women of Bitsy McGee, I say (other than, oh, God, rename your team!) suck it up and leave your ritzy Buckhead homes and come down and slum it in Decatur.

However this is not happening. We now have a list of names and numbers and are meant to reschedule our matches on our own. I do not see this working out.

Anyway, not the actual point. The actual point is that I have spent the last two hours sitting on my couch because I can't decide what to do with myself today. Should I go shopping? There's a couple of things I'd like to look for, both for myself and for the house. Or should I clean the house? God knows, it needs it. Or should I work out? Or should I wait to hear from my tennis partner to see what she wants to do?

Ok, must get up, must make a decision. Will let you know the outcome later, as I am sure you are all dying to know!

Okay, so the plus side of spending the bulk of the last two days stuck in an airport is that I got a lot of writing done. I have 7000 words of Panic being Amish sitting on my computer. I was freaked out for a while because I really had very little direction, and two POVs, but I think it's working now. Or it sucks and I'm just to close to it to tell. Two more sections to go and it'll be done.

I do need a bit of help though - I need titles to two heterosexual pornos that a typical college age guy would be into. I'd google, but hi, work computer. And I get away with a lot of stuff I'm not supposed to do on it, but I think that might be pushing my limits.

Also, I saw a woman at the airport last night in a bonnet and immediately felt guilty. I think she was Mennonite, not Amish, but still. Sorry for villainizing your religion, lady.

Okay, so when I started taking drum lessons, I decided I should wait two months to purchase actual drums, because there's no need wasting money/space on something that I might get bored with quickly. The only problem with that is that there's a nice set on craigslist now that's within $100 of what I wanted to pay, and I like the color (I have learned there are some really horrific colors for drums out there). So what do you think?

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