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And a big meme at that.

^^^ This. After numerous in computer drive failures ( all PCs at the time) I went external and never looked back. My main ripping drive is an external LG that is going on 4 years with no trouble. Has connected flawlessly to every Mac and PC I have thrown at it. Internal optical drives are so 20th century.

I have been comparing the Apple and Google Apps since IOS6 came out. Apple maps on the iPhone and Google maps on the iPad. During that time the only issue I had was the lack of a mass transit choice in Apple maps when I was in Chicago. A quick app download fixed that. No other issues so I updated the iPad to IOS6 yesterday. Sorry I waited.

Sorry to hear about your cat Ken.

With fast I/O ports, external optical drives (and storage) seems like the smarter way to go. But maybe I'm just an Apple apologist.

Probably update my iPad2 to the 4 after the holidays. Absolutely no interest in the iPad mini. Probably upgrade the 11" MBA in the summer. May go 13" rMBP, need to check it out in person first to see if the weight is acceptable.

13" rMBP makes the 13" MBA even less attractive.

QFT

Put up Halloween decorations. Between a hammer falling on my head and fighting with noncooperating lights I felt like Clark Griswold.

Happy Birthday Boyz! ^3

Yikes! Take care Jacob.

The answer to both parts is "Yes".

Based upon previous data it should be $2895.

It wasn't already? It wasn't already?

Vey cool Al!

Nope. We were always outside the barricaded area. They were barricading against his exit from a single house which also made it impossible for us to drive into our neighborhood since there is only one street that leads into it.

No, drove back around it and came around the backside of the neighborhood that has no street access. So never violated any barricades and we were about a mile and a half from the epicenter of the craziness.

Wow, even Viking splinters are big and nasty! Weird day today. Went to a soccer tournament held in CU with some of the games on UIUC fields. First game at 8:00 am, so get up around 5:30 and leave the house around 6:15. First game goes fine. Next game scheduled for 1:20. Run errands and have lunch. Starts raining at lunch. First game delayed until 2:00. Game set to start and ref refuses to allow the game because there is a puddle in front of one of the goals. Coaches parlee with ref and suggest that they move one goal forward about 10 yards and the other back 10 yards, moving the puddle back. Nope, campus rec says the goals cannot be moved but they will send someone out. Now, if you have ever tried to get anything done within a University bureaucracy, you can predict what happened. Two guys come out in their golf cart, survey and ponder the situation, attempt to squeegee off the water, get back in their cart, make a quick phone call and leave. Come back in about 5 minutes with a bigger squeegee. Another phone call, two more guys show up (one who used to play with ZZ Top). They all get out and survey the situation, another phone call. A supervisor arrives, they move one goal forward 10 yards, the other back 10 yards. The game finally starts at 4:00 pm. But that's not the weird part. So we get back into Charleston at about 6:15 pm and find that the street leading into our neighborhood is blocked. So we go around and approach from the opposite direction but it is blocked from that direction also. Find out that it is being blocked by the Charleston police, Coles County Sheriff SWAT Team and the State Police because some douchebag has barricaded himself inside of his house. So we drive around to the opposite side of the ravine that partially surrounds our neighborhood. Park the car at the end of that street, climb down the ravine, climb back up the opposite side of the ravine through our neighbors back yard and finally arrive back home at about 7:30 pm. I think I am going to write a novel.

Left the house at 6:15 for a soccer tournament. Now sitting in a windy field.

Yep, a great deal at that price.

I actually discovered that once I got married I was able to shut off outside sounds completely.

Nothing! It will now sound better.