My technology... specifically my PC is pissing me off to high hell these days. It's enough to make me miss my Mac days. The DVD burner I bough won't burn DVDs, and my computer in general only works on and off as a DVD player for some odd reason. Last night I was watching a Chomsky DVD and the image froze up just a few minutes into it... Meanwhile ALL the stuff on my old hard drive is still inaccessable to me, Windows XP is a messy whore, the old games I like to play are a sketchy proposition at best, too much shit runs in the background, my TV connector seems to be fucked (that one is new this morning), and I can't find a cord I need to get my VGA switch working (my third VGA switch, the others were inadequate for one reason or another), and that's just the shit I can remember. My room is pissing me off too, it's so freeking awkward to DO anything in it other than crawl around and sleep. I'm too damn tall for it. Tonight is the company xmas party, yay, then I'm hanging out with Sasha and Jason, yay. Saturday I'm hanging with grandma and Sunday I hope to edit the short (finally) with John, who is so cool and down as to blow my mind. That guy is awesome. I'm reading this little tome called "The Prophet" and its pretty beautiful stuff, it's got this shell of a story about a prophet "whose ship has come" so the town gathers around to wish him farewell and they ask him to speak on various things like work and marriage and law, which he does in his prophet-like ways. On joy and sorrow: "Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that hold your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?" Nice. On Children: "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams." Kinda makes me question my troubles with Windows XP. me and Sasha are looking into a house by Joshua Tree for rent month to month cheaply. We figure get ~6 people and have a second residence for like 50 bux a month each. Have a great weekend y'all.