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"Mustang...1993...All the parts
...and I became 'the man'."

yep, that's right. an address change and everything. please update all your links to the new address [http://302a.blogspot.com] and don't go to in_site.blogspot.com ever again. ever. ...again. oh, and tell all your friends to change their links too. yup. ...not that i'm saying that lots of people read this... whatever.

right now:: listening to Miles Davis...through my laptop speakers. this is the first time i've heard my laptop speakers make any sound in over a year. my headphone jack has been broken since that time that i accidentally let it slide off my desk and land on the headphone plug while it was in the jack. whew...and then there was that time that i took my computer to the TLC to get them to install a program for SOCI 101 and they noticed that it was broken and told me it was going to be $1300 to fix because they had to replace the system board and that i had to pay because i signed that contract when i got it last year. hmm..i hate that contract. well, i guess the important part of that run-on sentance was the part i didn't say yet: i ended up not having to pay for it. SO, my headphone jack hasn't worked very well since then. but now it's fully broken. the speakers haven't made sound for a while, and now it doesn't even get sound when i have my headphones or stereo plugged it. i mean, i used to get mono sound out of it and i could get stereo sound if i put pressure on the plug, but NO...my computer isn't going to take that anymore. it wants to be fixed or not work at all. so i jacked it up. i followed Terpstra's example and bent up a paper clip. i guess when the paperclip crosses the leads in the jack, it makes the speakers work again. go figure... at least now i can listen to my mp3s without having to burn them to cd...

also, Jordan is sleeping on my couch. he came in a little bit ago to read his history book, and then he read for about five minutes before falling asleep.

tonight is that secret thing that we're meeting to do. i would say more, but one of the two rules is that you can't tell anybody else about it. sorry. unless you're one of those involved, and then i could talk to you about it, but, you see, how am i supposed to know that you are one of those involved? i don't have any way of telling who visits my blog...hmm...maybe i should get a counter. i hate counters, but i guess it would be interesting to know. i'll think about that more before making a decision. umm...so back to my point. if you're one of those people that's supposed to be involved in the thing we're doing tonight, be at the place we told you to meet at the time we told you to be there. i'll bring my video camera.

okay, enough Miles Davis. i feel like listening to the Decembrists now.

in other news::
"Microsoft Fires Employee over Weblog"
yeah, so this guy apparently blogged about how "Even Microsoft Wants the G5" and Microsoft found out and fired him. they say that they had to fire him because he violated a confidentiality agreement and that he could have accidentally disclosed the location of their shipping dock (which leads to thefts?), but i think the real reason he was "no longer welcome on the Microsoft campus" was that Microsoft didn't like people knowing that they just can't live without some Apple products. haha! not that i've ever been much of a Mac fan (Joel Thomas). and anyways, AMDs are still better (thanks Terp) but anyways, it seems funny that a Microsoft printshop would have to use Macs...

a new tutorial on blogger com has some recommendations for those that blog about work and could possibly be fired for their posts... my favorite was the Weblog Fire Escape

i was going to re-address my blog as: indefatigable.blogspot.com, but it was already taken. ah well. at least the person that started it seems to be insane (or at least deranged). that's some consolation for me.