DaVinci Code

I'm reading "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown. Someone at work loaned it to me, and while I put it off for a while during the reading of "Absolute Power" by David Baldacci (a very good book as well btw)... I finally began reading it.

In one hour or so I bounced through seven chapters without realizing it. Then I got involved in Pod Racer and such and forgot about it. Until tonight. Vowing not to play Pod Racer yet AGAIN and continuing to hurt my poor wrists, I decided to go upstairs and read - something I've been trying to get myself to do more of anyway. So I did.

Chapter fifty hit me and I realized that for the past three hours I'd been reading continuously since I ate dinner. So, being nearly bedtime, I figured I'd take a quick shower and plop into bed. Got in the shower, got out, towelled off, and grabbed a fresh sheet to wrap around myself. Next thing I know I'm downstairs checking email and IM messages. And wishing I had some apples, bread, cheese, and wine.

That always happens to me when I'm reading a good book. I get hungry for the "rustic" type foods. Picnic snacks if you will. And while I'm lusting over the thought of such foodstuffs, I realize, too, that my window shade is still up, there are no lights in the house save for the stairwell, I'm wrapped in a mere sheet with my feet on the desk and one hand laced beneath my knee to reach the left part of the keyboard, the other hand perched at the edge of the desk for the right side of the keyboard, leaning back in my chair, watching my text fly across the screen as I type, and I've turned down my monitor settings quite drastically to barely show any light whatsoever.

Why, you ask? So no one outside my window can tell that I'm wrapped in a sheet! Or that I am once again geekily checking email when I should be in bed! Okay, okay, so it's more than that. Given the nature of "The DaVinci Code," I suppose I'm in a skulky mood. Yes, ladies and gents, I am skulking around in my own apartment, wishing I had apples, cheese, bread, and wine. Actually, I do have wine, but that's beside the point...

No idea why I feel it necessary to post this sort of thing in my blog, maybe to be different, doesn't matter really. How I wish I had a little radio or something that I could communicate in code with a like-minded friend! Yet I've no friend that would humour me even with Skype or TeamSpeak at this hour. Bummer.

Well, off to bed I go, then. Happy Harmonies!

12 Steps to Internet Recovery

An online friend sent me this. Figures, huh? Online. Yep...
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12 Steps to Internet recovery
1. I will have a cup of coffee in the morning and read my newspaper like I used to before the Internet.
2. I will eat breakfast with a knife and fork and not with one hand typing.
3. I will get dressed before noon.
4. I will make an attempt to clean the house, wash clothes, and plan dinner before even thinking of the Internet.
5. I will sit down and write a letter to those unfortunate few friends and family that are Internet-deprived.
6. I will call someone on the phone who I cannot contact via the Internet.
7. I will read a book...if I still remember how.
8. I will listen to those around me and their needs and stop telling them to turn the TV down so I can hear the music on the Internet.
9. I will not be tempted during TV commercials to check for email.
10. I will try and get out of the house at least once a week, if it is necessary or not.
11. I will remember that my bank is not forgiving if I forget to balance my checkbook because I was too busy on the Internet.
12. Last, but not least, I will remember that I must go to bed sometime ... and the Internet will always be there tomorrow!
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I have some comments to add to these, though...
1. I've always read the newspaper online... so how can I read it without the internet?! And, can I replace the coffee with tea or Chai or something? I hate coffee... (one of few geeks who hates coffee, actually)
2. Ever hear of french fries? No need to type one-handed... can grab fries with teeth.
3. I'm always dressed. No time to undress - pulling shirt over head deprives me of seeing monitor for .4 seconds. (Okay, I'm kidding, I actually do get dressed every day. But only because I have to work. LOL. Peu. Kidding!)
4. Too late.
5. I'm proud to say I wrote a letter to Mom just the other day. Of course, it may have been partially because I finally have a decent printer and just *had* to use it. The other reason of course is that she likes getting actual *mail* now and then as proof that her daughter really does correspond with her outside the computer. Besides, she'd never understand my handwriting anyway!
6. I do that often, actually... they stopped me from emailing everyone at work long ago.
7. I read pdf files quite regularly, thank you...
8. What? Sorry, I was still chuckling over the letter-writing one...
9. TV? Oh, no, I got rid of cable.
10. I'll have you know that there are TEN footprints in the snow out there right now!! (Granted, only four are mine from when my friend came over to get me to go get food so we could play online together and the rest are his, but... still... I went out today...)
11. I balance my checkbook onli-- no, I mean, I check my account online and then use a spreadsheet to - shit. I'm only digging myself deeper, aren't I?
12. It better be. I hate it when I'm IMing someone and the internet dies. Takes me a good five minutes to dial into my backup connection...

All right! All RIGHT!! I might be /slightly/ addicted to the Internet... What's the matter with that?