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1. “the night chicago died” mp3
   –> it was stuck in my head one morning.

2. rat farts caddyshack
   –> I say this all the time

3. flavoradio
   –> one of my favorite childhood memories.

4. “mac laptop cord” suck
   –> the old ones. the new ones are super fabuloso.

5. every morning lion gazelle faster
   –> referenced in one of my favorite posts.

6. whiskey makes me angry
   –> was it something I said??

7. titanium keycap falls off
   –> been there, done that, still afflicted, no big deal.

8. mandy patinkin sings somewhere over the rainbow
   –> one of the most beautiful performances ever.

9. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can
   –> so popular that I was bumped off the page for this one.

10. how to pronounce lowenbrau
   –> probably because nobody can pronounce my name.

11. zithromycin ear pain
   –> ear pain? I really don’t remember.

12. roosters- silence
   –> this one no longer finds me, which is just as well.

13. “Contact the New England Patriots”
   –> no, I never have.

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That’s what I was thinking when I saw Wifey put that yummy-looking loaf into the oven. A few minutes later the fish was done cooking and she went to retrieve the bread. “Uh oh” is never, ever what I want to hear. “The bread is cold,” she added. Which could only mean one thing.

Our oven has died.

Not just any oven. This is an old Jenn-Air with a microwave oven on top of it. Yes, that one, that’s had any number of problems. So both need to be replaced.

And of course we’re not just talking about a washer or dryer that can just be wheeled in, wheeled out, plugged in, hoses tightened. No.

We’re talking about taking out the old oven/microwave, measuring to make sure the opening is the right height and width and depth, checking the electrical service, blah blah blah. No, I won’t be doing it myself. I am old-and-wise enough to know my limitations and this project is among them.

And hey, when you’re spending… whaaaaa? $1,700+?? Holy f-ing you’ve gotta be kidding me! Plus delivery, plus installation. I’m just glad… nope, I’m not going to say anything else. But things like this come in threes, don’t they? Oh, I don’t even want to know what’s next.

Perhaps we forgot to mention that the word on Mister Laptop (what is his blog name again?) is feeling much better, thank you!

I did reinstall the OS and that left all of the files in place, but the next two reboots both crashed. This was not encouraging. But I tried a few different things, including logging into my backup account, and I was able to get the upgrade OS installation done. And it hasn’t crashed since! ::knocking wood::

So maybe the thread of the shame of restoring backed-up files was enough, but he’s back and feeling great! Yay!!

Seems like today was going to be just filled with them — fun and games, I mean.

I had been planning to cut down some large shrubberies, but with the snow… not so much.

And when Wifey suggested I go out and buy the Sunday Globe… no, those weren’t the two words.

So yeah, the Sunday paper, which we haven’t gotten in a long time because, well, they ain’t givin’ ‘em away. And the only thing I use it for is the crossword — which I completed, thank you very much! I did have four squares wrong, but that’s not too bad, is it? Some things I just don’t know, I guess.

And then there’s the Sudoku I’ve been working on for a few days. It’s a “very hard” puzzle because I think I’m so smart. Not the hardest, mind you, not yet. I finally finished it after 2 hours and 53 minutes! It was hard. I had to make one guess and then I got stuck and then I made another guess, which took me to a contradiction, so I was back at the first guess, and that one took me to the end. Hard, like I said.

In the mean time was the not-so-fun-and-games of my laptop dying. Here’s a good lesson. When the operating system is being upgraded, do *not* touch the system, not even a little. I was shutting things down — you know, make it easier for when the upgrade was done and it needed to reboot. Then the last thing I did was unmount this camera card. Bzzzzt, system error, you must reboot. And of course the upgrade was still in the middle. Sure enough, wouldn’t reboot, wouldn’t reboot. So to make a long story short, I’m still (five hours later?) copying everything off of the hard drive, which I was able to mount onto another system using FireWire, and also I have this FireWire hard drive lying around, so I’m copying everything onto that. With any luck, I’ll have it all fixed sometime tonight or tomorrow. And ::knock on wood:: I won’t end up losing any of my hard works, which would have sucked.

Oh, I almost forgot — the quiz answer. Wifey didn’t know what to make for dinner the other night. So when the words “Chinese food” popped out of her mouth, I was off like a shot to get the menu. I had to take her order before she changed her mind! So did anyone guess anything food related? Johnny, tell them what they’ve won! :)

Mother nature does look awfully cute in that white coat she sometimes wears… but dammit, it’s spring and she’s supposed to be all green and naked!!

We got what appears to be around 2 1/2 inches of snow overnight. Looks sticky, the way it’s clinging to the fences. With any luck I’ll just admire it from afar… from inside.

Wow, I’d almost forgotten that this new version of WordPress auto-saves your post! Cool!

Now I’m thinking about the answer to the quiz… should I just post it for those who are logged in? Hmmm. Hmmm. :)

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Did you see the little blip of strangeness? Lasted about 3 minutes? Yup, that was me upgrading to WordPress 2.1.

Oh yeah, I’m a pro now. :)

And here’s the big news… You can now register here and enjoy bonus content!

Bonus. Yes, not bogus. Bonus.

If you’re not into javascript code for Blogger, skip on down to the Quiz below…

P.S. I have to say, there have been some great answers, and the most recent one about the toilet — well that would get me out of my chair pretty quickly, but with some thinking time getting in the way.

I’ll just say that you never saw me get out of my chair so fast last night. It was a really powerful couple of words.

OK, what are you still doing here — go take the quiz!

Here’s how to do the “click to read more” in Blogger…

0. Back up your template and keep it safe in case anything goes wrong and you need to go back to that. I’ve tested this code and it works great. But I get paid to do this kind of thing. And quite frankly, if you want me to do it for you, you can pay me, too.

1. Put this script in the <head> section of your template:

 
2. Look for this code in your template:

 
3. Take that out and replace that with this:

 
4. Now whenever you want to create that “click to read more”, here’s what your post will look like:

 
5. Enjoy! You may repay me by being excellent to your fellow man planet team member. Or cash. I accept both. :)

6. On the other hand, if you want to automatically break your post after 20 lines or so, skip step 4 and instead of the script in step 1, put this code in the <head> section of your template:

 
7. Note that it won’t be exactly however man lines you specify in the lineLimit variable (which you may change if you like), but it ought to be pretty close.

P.S. This code is for new Blogger templates. If you still have the old kind, you’ll need something different — let me know and I’ll send it to you.