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It’s official the last book in the series will be called: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
I was successful in locating two Englebert Humperdinck Christmas CDs my Mother wanted [although Amazon.com will never permit me to forget it] as well as the Chia Cat and Mark Martin NASCAR T-shirt. I would note that the CDs are for her, but the Chia thing and T-shirt are gifts for a neighbor whose has been very helpful. I might even get to finish my shopping before Sunday.
The battery in my UPS died Tuesday, so I had to buy a new UPS because you can’t buy just the battery locally, and I can’t run a computer without a UPS. Then the new database software I had to buy to comply with a client’s preferences refused to install until I updated to Win-XP service pack 2, something I have been avoiding because it is a resource hog and flaky when first released, so I have been crawling under tables and watching mindless update screens for hours.
In dealing with sheetrock repairs in the rehab project I discovered that there is 3/8-inch sheetrock in two rooms and 1/2-inch in two others. The joy of old construction.
Everyone wants things finished before the end of the year, but they don’t mention it until after Thanksgiving.
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Good luck on getting that shopping done before Saturday. I’m just hoping to SURVIVE until Saturday! So much for my resolution to Get It All Done before Thanksgiving this year.
I’m beginning to think the year I get it all done early will be the year I am confined to a padded cell somewhere and nobody expects anything from me.
In case I don’t have much time to blog, nor read blogs –
But Wishing you a Happy and Joyous one (followed up by a Little Xmas *cheer*) and maybe the season can be a bit Merry & Bright!
And there’s always 2007 to look forward to!
Happy Holidays and Very Merry Christmas!
Oh no! a Harry Potter spoiler! (I just posted on the same subject… but pointed to an AP article for the spoiler.)
I have three (3) dead UPS’s sitting on the floor in the corner of my office, some as old as ten (10) years. For environmental reasons I won’t throw them in the dumpster, and the nearest recycling center that takes UPS’s and auto batteries is miles away. So they continue to pile up, thanks to my laziness. One of the best incentives for me not to buy additional equipment for my office is that while my current UPS is nowhere nearly overloaded, all its outlets are occupied. Any new equipment purchase will require me to buy an additional UPS as well.
Win XP SP2 has been pretty stable for me, but the latest Symantec Norton A/V slows it to a crawl… in a box that’s only about three (four?) years old.
“Everyone wants things finished before the end of the year, but they don’t mention it until after Thanksgiving.” – Bryan
Every large corporate client I’ve ever worked for has had that very same attitude. I suppose their project budgets or something in their taxes predisposes them to do this, but they certainly could pick a better time of year to try to get real work done.
Andante, this is your busy time with the Christmas music, so I expected you were buried.
Karen, thank you, and the same back at you. It looks like you might finally get some snow.
Steve, I can’t complain about APC, the battery lasted better than 5 years and it kept me going through a lot of interruptions for things like hurricanes and tropical storms.
I realize they are burning through budgets, but they know the numbers the second week in October and wait until the end of November to do anything about it.
I have a recycling battery warehouse nearby, I just wish they would stock these batteries as well as the batteries for electric wheelchairs so I could buy them locally, instead of on the ‘Net.
Ha! Quoted CNN for the Harry Potter link. Great minds think alike or something…
Or we all just enjoy reading/listening to/ watching the Harry Potter phenomena.
Ellroon, as someone who has taught entry level college courses, I’m throughly, absolutely, and totally in favor of any book that gets children to read.
I’m throughly, absolutely, and totally in favor of any book that gets children to read.
I agree! I encouraged my kids to read with comic books, anime, graphic novels, anything with a page and a plot. The computer really takes up most of their personal time now, but still, there is a lot of reading involved there too. (so I tell myself…)