Pen-Elayne on the Web

Silly Site o' the Day

Even though I had a bit of trouble sleeping last night, I felt fairly refreshed when Datsa woke us up at the usual ungodly hour, so after he and Amy were fed Rob went back to sleep while I caught up on my finances (i.e., balanced my checkbook and wrote in newer transactions). Fortunately I made it through unemployment with enough insurance payments banked to begin paying my share of the rent again, and I've also re-upped the subs on all the magazines I'm going to be reading during my commute. I can even swing my MasterCard bill, which will include my brand-new PC which came last night (and which Rob has pretty much all set up already, naturally). It seems good and fast, and not wonky at all as this old PC has continued to become (the latest headache -- when I upgraded to Firefox 3 I lost my ability to call up ComicMix's "Continued" tab on their editing site, and I haven't been able to post photos there in ages, I had to keep going to the Macbook to do that). Now if I can just get BigFish to acknowledge that I should be allowed to activate Atlantis Quest there, I'm all set and we can wipe this old baby's hard drive by the end of the weekend.

But that's a minor concern; first up, I need shoes (or, as Melissa says, OMG shoez) because the three pairs I currently own are all rubber-soled and look more like sneakers, at least to my supervisor at work. So it's off to the Palisades Center once Robin reawakens. Hey, I'm not complaining, especially with conveyor-belt sushi to hand! I think I can even deal with the ubiquitous consumerism. Speaking of which, this Fun with Brands post at David McCandless' The Internet Now In Handy Book Form! reads pretty familiar to me.