I’ve missed a couple of days of blog posting in my 2012 Initiative. I work. I’m tired. Sometimes I sit on the couch for a few hours when I get home. I can’t be in front of this computer all the time.

Here is a list of some tweets that, for some reason, didn’t get sent:

Why does my neighborhood look and feel abandoned?
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Sweetie it’s fucking McDonald’s. Stop doing special orders for your five children. #holdinguptheline
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Loawd give me 2x patience today!
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I’ve dribbled on myself. #vietnamesefood
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Looks like I should start hanging out at this bus stop more often. #mayor http://moby.to/d5d1kq
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Next up in the shuffle: Grace Jones, Erasure, Housemartins, Lightning Seeds, MJ, Beloved, Kylie, Matt Alber, Interpol, ABC, Fischerspooner.
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Picked up my new iMac!
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Street preachers are funny. #andscary
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Every song on this playlist at Noodles & Co is a prime example of what is wrong with pop music today.
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I had a lot of apps crashing on my iPad. The biggest culprit was The Sims Freeplay. But Safari too. And my Videos app too. So I made the appointment during my lunch break to have it look at. It turns out that it had some software corruption. Which means that I would have to do a Restore that completely wipes content back to its factory settings.

Now, little things like photos, music, contacts and calendars used to be a big deal but now with iCloud I don’t have to worry about that kinda stuff. What I do have to worry about is apps that don’t back up to the cloud yet: developers that have not fully implemented such backups. I guess it wouldn’t really matter much in this case anyway, as I couldn’t restore from a backup because that would put the corrupt software right back on.

So I have to setup as a new device.

Although I’ve lost the hours already spent building my town in Sims I haven’t re-downloaded the app and started again. So daunting. Sigh.

I’m finding that owning a new iMac means a lot of time spent in front it, playing around and investigating around. I guess these are things that I hadn’t done too much of recently maybe because it was a chore or things just weren’t as zippy (read: fun) with a six-year-old computer. RIP Elroy II, you will be sorely missed. But now that things are zippier and whoosh and wow I’m spending some time here instead of pinchin’ & swipin’ & zoomin’ on my iPad. It’s all good.

Right now I’m blasting Kylie’s “Fever” album in its entirety from my iTunes. Partly because I’m sitting here (as stated earlier) and partly because I’m trying to give the inconsiderate neighbors a taste of their own medicine. As I’m listening, I’m realizing I haven’t listed to this album in a long time because of the boyfriend that I (sadly) associated this music with. All the songs had a certain meaning at that time and now it’s nice to listen to them in a new light. And Cathy Dennis’ production in this album is totally top notch. It’s nice to hear her influences in here. Maybe next on the decks will be a little Miss Dennis? I’ll have to check and see which songs of hers made it into my iTunes library, as I have yet to unpack all of my boxes which contain mostly CDs. #sigh

Update: “Why” and “Touch Me” were the only holdovers.

Today is a half day off.

I’m enjoying my new iMac, for after six years my old G5 gave out. I think I definitely got my money’s worth on that one. So I’m running this new one through its paces, lots of apps open and testing its limits. Haven’t reached them yet, it’s nice.

Just received some insider information. Can’t spill quite just yet. But I think it’s good.

I’m off at 4:00 today and I walked over to Chevy’s for some of their $3.25 margaritas. LadyFabolous231 is going to join me when she gets off at 5:00.

Having such a crazy (read: abnormal) work schedule this is a little semblance of normalcy. In that manner, I mean getting off at a normal time and doing things that normal people might be doing.

She just texted me: “20 more minutes. Drink slow.” She don’t know me.

LF231 is off for the next seven days, I think. She’ll prob go see her people in NJ. (She a Jersey Girl.)

What else?

Oh, Pippin came into the store today and finally got the iPad he has been wanting. I hope he enjoys it. If I had an iPhone 4 I would FaceTime him and find out but, alas, I do not. It’s on the list though.

What else? Can I keep typing for the next fourteen minutes?

I’ve come to Chevy’s for lunch sometimes when I have an hour lunch break. The food’s not bad and it’s nice to get out of the mall and away from all the people that visit the mall. But this is the first time for an actual “after work drink” situ. It’s not bad for the price and a corporate chain restaurant. They have music playing like KQQK played: tejano mixed with Hispanic techno. Love it.

So on my “Sunday” today, I didn’t really do too much. Actually nothing. I updated my MobileMe calendar to the new version. Big whoop. My operating system (because it’s so old) doesn’t support all the functions of the new calendar and so it wasn’t an automatic upgrade as it would have been. I had to do a little backend work, but it was all laid out here and everything went according to plan.

I found ‘Scotchie’s favorite sleeping place while I was home today. It’s on the radiator in the living room. But also while I’m here all day (a rarity) she also likes to cuddle up with me which is cute. I feel bad working so many hours at my 2.5 jobs so it’s good to give her some snuggle time.

I went to dinner with Melba tonight, to our usually place La Lomita.

Tomorrow is my Monday while it’s everybody else’s Friday. Oh well. And tomorrow is the first of my three 12-hour days. What a way to start the week, right? I’m anxious to get back into work though. Fun!

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What did I do on my “Saturday”? I first woke up around 7:00 am but then was able to fall back asleep until around 11, which was really nice. I finished watching Monday’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race and then physically got out of bed.

I lumbered around until Apple’s press conference came live where they announced iPad 2. It has some really great features; you can view the keynote here.

This evening I went out with some friends to Little Miss Whiskey’s Silver Dollar for casual cocktails. Afterwards we stopped by the under construction offices of Evolve’s new space on H St. It’s going to be a really cool office space and I can’t wait until we move in there.

I’m home a little earlier than I anticipated on a night I have between two days off but that’s fine. Tomorrow I’ve got a lot of chores to do and finish everything I was too lazy to do today. Thanks for reading.

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Hello there.

Today is the 2nd day of the first two days in a row I have had off since August. I am doing absolutely nothing, just like I did yesterday: being lazy at home. Waking up whenever I want, making coffee and surfing, listening to music. I didn’t shower yesterday and I won’t shower today either.

This is the first post of 2011. And the first post since three months ago. I could write the delay off to 1) my last updating of WordPress software went wrong and there are errors in uploading on my mobile devices; 2) the Big Computer Crash of ’11 that kept my li’l iMac out of commish for about a month; or 3) downright laziness. I’ll let you decide which is most appropriate.

Here’s more about the BCC of ’11. My iMac is over five years old and I’ve never had one single problem with it. Last month I started having some strange reboot issues. The computer would freeze up on restarts, turning the fan on before the desktop appears and then hanging there. Sometimes another hard reboot would allow it to boot up properly, sometimes not. Then it got to the point where the freeze/fan would happen every time. Time for a doctors appointment.

It was hard drive failure. Fine. For $200 I get a new, twice as large hard drive (500M). I’m trying to restore my Time Machine backups on there and after a week or so of fidgeting/resetting the hard drive crashes AGAIN. So this is my now 3rd hard drive and everything seems to be going okay. Thank Zod for TM backups, at least I didn’t lose any information.

So that’s about it for now. Let’s talk again soon.

I’m writing this post in Pages on my iPad, and will upload it onto my iDisk, since my WordPress app isn’t working correctly. There, enough technology references for ya?

I see that I haven’t written any in the last six weeks. Which is unusual compared to how frequently I posted when I started this thingie here. I guess time and different life circumstances make for a lot of change and will alter one’s writing/documenting habits.

Nanowrimo is coming up in a couple of weeks (they’re already ramping up their tweets on Twitter). If you”ll remember from last year, November is NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth and I took part in that and it was fun.

So in order to get back into writing maybe doing this on my iPad (which I love, btw) will make it a little more fun to write. Stay tuned to see if I tackle nanowrimo this year.