Sublime Peace

So, we now have baby.  So far the only thing I have been comfortable calling him is “Doctor Cyclops”…he has the shits right now…. gotta go.

Nod doing homework, reading old blog posts.  It seems I replace words with similar sounding words or just leave words out completely when typing.  Dern.

Need to write a paper for my dietitian class linking diabetes to polycystic ovarian syndrome and then discuss ways you diet can effect the condition.   Due in 2 days.  Today is almost over.  I have not written anything yet.  Five to seven pages, but it is double spaced so no biggie.  Poo.

Dropped off some shoes of ours to be resoled, will get those back in two weeks.  Picked up dog poop in the yard.  Really avoiding this paper.  Found a new recipe, Chicken Crunch, I am going to make that for dinner.  I hope it does not suck.  I have less than an hour before I need to start dinner so I should really focus on that paper.

I am really happy with the progress on J.R.’s room…not sure what too call him yet. John is growing on me but still seems to common. I like Reginald alot but my speech impediment (which hardly exists now) makes me self conscious about using that name or Reggie because it will end up Weginald or Weggie and that is just not cool. I will probably end up with Lauren calling my boy Johny. Anywho…

I am really happy with the progress on J.R.’s room. The walls are a fun but not too bright shade of green. The carpet and tile have been removed, floor has been sanded and resealed and is now a nice light woody(?) colour (out of space). We have the crib and the dresser and a rocking chair and a table and 2 bookshelves…it looks great! One thing is that the wood on the floor matches the furniture a bit too well in my opinion. We are going to be breaking up the lighter colors with a coffee brown rug and some brown curtains. AWESOME.

Last night I stayed up with Sam.  Lauren and I have been waking to find the kitchen spotted with diarrhea, and hoping to avoid this happening again I stayed up letting Sam out every sixty to ninety minutes.  I fell asleep after four and when I woke up at six I stepped in a pile of vomit, stepping back in revulsion I placed my other foot in diarrhea.  How disappointing.

Lauren and I had a hell of a time dealing with Dell on the phone a couple days ago.  I got a Dell Mini 10, with the HD screen and television tuner (awesome) and it was nothing but problems.  I immediately brought this up with Dell and they consistently failed to correct the problem.   First they sent out a repair man (who was very competent and I have nothing but respect for) but gave him the wrong replacement part.  I was not going to send in my computer in for one pixel to be fixed, I wanted a refund or exchange but they would not do it.  Over the next week the screen went to crap, white lines going from one side to the other.  I called Dell and the said just sent it in and they will fix it.  I sent it in and then get an e-mail saying that the computer had been received and would be reflected on our credit in the next thirty days.

That is not sounding like “hey, we are fixing your computer and it will be back in a few days” but it also is not a clear “hey, here is a refund”.  I called trying to figure out exactly what was going on and kept getting disconnected or transferred from tech support to finance, back and forth.  After an hour Lauren called on another line and it was another hour before somebody finally just told us we were getting a refund.   It was not that hard, I did not ask any complicated questions.  Dell sucks.  Anywho, I will be buying a Dell Mini 10v with Ubuntu this week.

I am really agitated right now.  Just overwhelmed, I feel angry but I am not.  I am stressing because we have been doing a lot of work in the nursery and I have been neglecting school work and tomorrow I have 2 tests in my physiology and anatomy class which I have not studied for and I still need to do my homework but I do not think I will do it before I go to bed because when I am fucking wound up I need to unwind before I can do anything and even though I tried to deal with my feelings by downing a shit load of cheese popcorn and RC I am not doing much better.  I dislike that when I am agitated I have a strong desire to act out but I do not because I understand there is no reason for it and nothing good can come from it but when I am pissed I want to make some kind of external expression of the internal tension but grrrrr….  Another thing that gets me is after I had already decided I would just hang on to my new dell computer and not sent it in to be fixed the screen got way worse and that annoys me because now I have to send it in an go without it for 1-2 weeks and then hope it works when I get it back….. fuckers.

Today was as unproductive a day as I thought it was going to be.  I did accomplish a few things like ditching the Dell Dock and setting up Rocket Dock, installing Diablo 2 and a few other games… well, that is about it.   Now Lauren is asleep, it is 22:24, she is having a dandy of a time keeping her strength up.  These late night blog posts have crappier than normal writing.  I believe.  Hmmm, tomorrow I will clean my office and set up an aerobed in there, mow the lawn, get my homework for PSY 209 done and then I will feel better about my level of productivity.    blah

I told dell I wanted an exchange or a refund and then discovered that the believe it is okay for a screen to have up to 6 dead pixels.  They say that is the industry standard.  I do not know what industry they are talking about but it is not the Internation Organizaton of Standardization.  Jerk faces.  If I want a refund they say there is a 15% restocking fee.  I am really annoyed that Dell has a standard of defective merchandise and they cover it by saying it is only defective if 6 or more pixels are dead.

So, the technician from Dell (QualXserv is where he was from really) came to do the repair on my mini today.  He was very knowledgeable and took the netbook apart with some ease (it was not a simple task, which is weird for dell but they put this thing together in a way as to discourage people from trying to upgrade it IMHO) but then discovered that the replacement screen that he had been given was the wrong one.  He called his people to find out what the deal was and they told him that he had the correct screen.  Jim (the tech) told me he was not comfortable with the job and he was sure something was not right and suggested we try to get the computer sent in for repairs.  I agreed and then while Jim was on the phone he learned that he was indeed given the wrong part. 

Dell will be sending me a box to ship the computer off in too be repaired.  I am kinda annoyed by the whole situation and am thinking I should just call Dell back and exchange or return the item. 

Other than that Lauren and I have been somewhat productive.  We cleaned the house this morning and we planted some flowers this afternoon.   We are getting set to go out and put down some mulch, but first I am going to enjoy a Polar Pop from the Circle K.   I am grateful for my peaceful, mundane existence.

Well, I have continued to play with my new dell and all the programs I like to use have been installed.  My collection of eBooks has been transferred.   One problem that has arisen is that it seems the memory has been soldered into place on this bad boy.  That pisses me off.  The computer has a gig of memory and runs XP so, it is not crucial that it have more, but it would make some things better.  Stoopid evil dell.  Who solders memory chips into computers?  Fook.

So, in my bedroom I have a EEEPC 900 which I use primarily for surfing the blagosphere while in bed or listening to the radio.  Last night before Lauren and I bedded down I started a station that played nature sounds.  It was birds chirping in a forest, pretty peaceful, and then a loud angry dog started barking.  We both got freaked out because Sam was with us, and we had been talking about the recently deceased Max.  I shot up pretty quick and then I realized it was on the damn nature sounds.  Zen meditation my butt.