The 29th Up until last weekend I hadn't had Dina-Sour Eggs in a long, long time. Probably since I was a kid and I actually didn't think they made them anymore. A couple of weeks back I saw these at Pro Hardware in Dominion Square. Based on the fact that this place looks like it still sells a lot of stuff from the 60s I figured these might actually be boxes left over from the 80s that they found in the stockroom behind the Dinosaurs Attack! Trading Cards or something. If it wasn't for the updated Willy Wonka logo then I could have easily been convinced they might be as old as me. I can't believe I used to eat a whole box in one sitting as a kid, if I was even able to remain sitting after this much sugar. I had 3 or 4 of these things and my teeth were already regretting it. This one box lasted me a good 4 days. I even had a dentist appointment and thought they were going to tell me my teeth were rotten. I would have just blamed Willy. The 26th Could it possibly be any fucking colder?! The bears know what they're doing. I'm content to stay inside and sleep until April if that's what it takes. Anyone want to pay my bills for me? It's weird seeing how people manage to find your website. I'm not sure if they were looking for mine specifically but I'm guessing it's more along the line of looking for Nathan's which used to be hosted with my site. In any case, some of these search strings don't make sense either way. Here's the top 5 for the last couple of months. January 2004: 1) lime in the coconut meaning, 2) gonna sue jack daniels for, 3) lightsabre polycarbonate, 4) nathan wiley, 5) ultramatic sleep commercials December 2003: 1) boob muffs, 2) nathan wiley, 3) after eight hot chocolate, 4) fleer hercules tattoo, 5) levi socks, 6) skunk scare it -dog -dogs, 7) types of pasta salad I admit some of these are relevant to many of my past posts like the one about the Herc tattoos and random lyrics but "boob muffs"? The 18th I hate Windows. More specifically Windows 95 but Windows in general. I tried to do a re-install on my dad's ancient computer last week and everything seemed to be going well until I booted the damn thing up and a bunch of files were corrupt. A few attempts later and I finally got the drive wiped tonight and re-installed a fresh system on it. But what's this? Oh, files are still corrupt and hundreds of files are just missing? Wha??? I don't know what to do. You'd think this should be a fairly simple process but we are talking about Windows here. If I had to install Mac OS 7 or 8 you can bet this would be a much smoother process. I just hope XP has come a long way or I feel much more pity for all the non-Mac folk. The 15th I have way too much shit kicking around this place. Not only that, it's way too much useless shit. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I am a collector of things. But I don't need to collect everything. Maybe it's a mental condition. Getting rid of stuff, putting stuff away, trying to sell stuff, and acquiring new stuff is constantly eating up my time. It's a sickness. So I thought I'd do my dad a favour the other night and wipe his PC's drive clean and re-install Windows for him. I ran the installer and figured I'd be given some option to erase the drive but wasn't so I just went ahead and finished the installation. Booting up after that made me realize that I hate PCs even more than I ever have before. Some file was damaged and so now the thing won't boot up properly. I pop in the system disc hoping it will boot from that (you know, like a Mac can). Um, nope. No surprise there though. I leave in frustration but went back tonight with some tips from MacPhee at the ready. Still no luck and that means no one there has access to the Net until I can get someone to take a look at it. Why is that 90-something% of the world uses PCs but when I need someone to help me fix it there's no one around that I can think of that would know what to do? And the ones who do aren't home. The 14th Old Man Winter certainly grabbed everyone by the shoulders and railed them from behind today, didn't he? Honestly, this is some of the shittiest and coldest winter weather I've ever experienced. It's the kind of cold that cuts through every bit of clothing you wear, and freezes the snot in your nose. Miserable, miserable shit. On to something that has nothing to do with the winter. Charles sent me some photos a little while back of an actual Simpsons home. I had seen one these before in a magazine years ago as part of a contest but never saw any detailed photos, just descriptions. I think they look really good and would probably commit murder to own a house like this. Just thought I'd share them. The 13th Procrastinator is my middle name. I was supposed to have a new layout ready over the holidays so that when January arrived I'd have a brand new Ramblings page for 2004. But no. I'm a lazy bastard. So here it is and 2 weeks into January I finally have the damn thing done. Holidays came and went as usual. I managed to get time off again and go up to my grandparents' place after all the Xmas fuss was over. Ate way too much and felt like a bloated, useless pig (still do to some degree). So after the relaxing I had for a week and half I'm now back and work and stressed out all over again. Toss in some pain-in-the-ass furnace problems and it's enough to make me want to hibernate for the winter.