Does the fact that I did not notice its suggestiveness before show I am broad-minded, or just slow?

There's only about 3 or 4 here that I keep email tabs on..

I downloaded this patch in less than 10 minutes. What are you on, a 300 baud modem?

NOW BRING ON THE LOTR EE MARATHON! NO PEE BREAKS!!!

Thanks for the tip! Last question, is "Soul Calibur 2" suitable for a soon to be 7 year old?

I had to open certain ports on my router to get the download to work. It's all on the WoW Tech Support website.

That's brutal! You do get a holiday in there somewhere don't you?

At the least I hope they pay you overtime for it.

The only one working tomorrow (the 22nd) (the 23rd)?

They didn't act surprised.

it has a nearby instance, and, stupidly, is the location of the alliance auction house. Being the auction house alone makes IF lag like no other area.

Speaking of auction houses, what a poorly implemented system Blizzard has. Heaven forbid the main race cities all have one, there be a way of linking them to the dead and pointless nuetral auction house in Gadgetzan, that any attempt be made to have an automatic, ranged acution total, that time was properly added to bids placed in the last few minutes of auction, etc.

It ended up taking me roughly fourteen hours to download a 39MB patch. Even on dial-up, that is ridiculous. If you can sit there and putz around enough to get a good seed, you can do ok. Otherwise, it is a painfually slow process. For costing $15 a month, Blizzard being unwilling to pay for patch bandwidth is completely ridiculous. Even looking at bug patching, I can think of a good fifteen or so items that I reported, were confirmed to me as being known and on the bug list, and which made no appearance in this patch.

From the response i've seen, i would be suprised to see the next patch come out with the same blizzard downloader.

I was watching a movie Monday night on my computer, and was struck partially/temporarily blind! (no, it wasn't that kind of movie, pervos). It started as a little spot just left of centre-of-vision that I couldn't see through.

I decided to go to bed and see how things were in the morning, thinking that I was going to be pretty annoyed if I woke up blind.

The spot began to spread (freaking me out, I might add) until it was taking up probably 2/3 of my left visual hemisphere. Light was getting through, but everything was distored and wavy, and I couldn't see through it. Even with my eyes closed it was very 'sharply' bright.

As I laid there in bed unable to fall asleep, the blindness stopped growing, and then started migrating towards the edges of my vision. After about an hour, there was a just-barely perceptible distortion at the very upper-left edge of my vision.

When that dissappeared a few minutes later, I was struck with an immediate and painful headache which stayed with me throughout the next day, and honestly is still lingering now.

That was a unique experience, and not really very pleasant.

but still, the heat pump has worked really well, even with the programmable thermostat. I'd like to know more why you don't like them ....

It's still useful for dropping/raising the temp at night when everyone is in bed asleep. There's no sense in keeping the house at the same temperature then as you do during the daytime. And the thermostat can easily have the temp back up to "normal" by the time you wake up.

That was banddirector who is off for 2 weeks. I'm an engineer.

Might be useful for you WOW addicts...

http://www.thottbot.com/

Anyone but me really glad it is Friday? Man this week has been a pain and the weekend will be busy with both fun and work, but I'm just tired of being at work today. Probably not being my most productive, either.

OTC drugs (possibly including caffeine).

I did have a brush with a celeb while working my way through the masses, as I saw professional curmudgeon Andy Rooney walking down the street,