This popped into my head a few nights ago - I remember laughing about it with Twin A, especially the “aw, shucks”. Do you remember it?

Dungeon Escape!

Fun! And frustrating.

We had a lovely week of spruceball and mussels and hikes. And horrible but incompetent flies. Very cute picture of Harry to come soon. I just have to hook the new external drive I got with my old dead drive data on it up to my new computer to get all the pictures back in before I start loading new ones. (It cost WAY TOO MUCH MONEY to have this done. More than double what I thought I was going to pay, even with taking a less expensive route, or so I had thought. Twin A, you were so right. Moral of the story: BACK EVERYTHING UP. EVERYTHING.)

PSB, Harry and I leave for Maine tomorrow, for another week on Great Spruce Head Island. Because Dirty Harry isn’t supposed to ride in a car seat for more than a few hours at a time, we’re going to make the trip in two days instead of just one. We’ll be staying outside of Boston, near Salem, and visiting with two friends of mine from acting school. I’m very excited to get to see them.

Twin B is graciously watching the Mighty Chomper while we are gone. He and B get along really well. The amazing woman we hired last year was very disappointed to not get to spend time with him though - we’ll have her over once we get back so she can see him again. . .

Have a wonderful week and a half or so!

My hard drive decided to take a trip to Crapsville on Monday. After a lot of internet consulting and some advice from Twins A and D, I picked up a new hard drive, got it installed, and then did my best to get the old hard drive to somehow come back to life long enough to get some data off of it (most importantly, a bunch of pictures of the kid, PSB’s trip to Tajikistan, her and my trip to Puerto Rico, etc. etc.). Unfortunately, and even with Twin A coming over today and trying almost every trick in the book, nothing has worked. Twin A has one more trick up his sleeve, involving putting the hard drive in the freezer, then quickly accessing it and grabbing whatever he can off of it. He claims it works. Don’t ask me. I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that it does. I feel terrible for not having backed anything up. I was lucky enough to get almost all of my music and most of my documents from really old drives that I’ve kept - they both worked when I put them in USB connected case I have for them. . . A big thank you to Twin A for trying so hard in general, and helping me get back up and running with new drivers and stuff on the new hard drive.

The PolenMom is coming over today (since it’s Saturday already) to hang out with the polkies, and later I think I’m having dinner and drinks with a fellow kvetchnik. We will have fun, and kvetch! Oy, the kvetching!

(BOO! Video of a duck doing an excited stomping of feet when getting fed removed from YouTube.)

(Also, apparently it wasn’t a duck but a bar headed goose, according to Urlesque, who got this from Reddit.)

It’s hard to be unhappy when someone is betting into your flopped quads.

Full Tilt Poker Game #21602045605: Table Tofu - $0.25/$0.50 - No Limit Hold’em - 1:11:20 ET - 2010/06/14
Seat 1: ZManChoo ($29.35)
Seat 2: jmk2426 ($50)
Seat 3: LoveChips1 ($69.50)
Seat 4: tiaolong66 ($26.75)
Seat 5: mi1n9uh60s ($45.40), is sitting out
Seat 6: outburrst ($50)
Seat 7: DoctorSuckout ($68.70)
Seat 8: URA Donkeyhoe ($20.35)
Seat 9: callu364 ($34.15)
tiaolong66 posts the small blind of $0.25
outburrst posts the big blind of $0.50
jmk2426 posts $0.50
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to DoctorSuckout [Qs Qd]
DoctorSuckout raises to $2
URA Donkeyhoe folds
callu364 calls $2
ZManChoo folds
jmk2426 calls $1.50
LoveChips1 folds
tiaolong66 folds
outburrst folds
outburrst adds $0.50
*** FLOP *** [Qc Qh Th]
DoctorSuckout checks
callu364 has 15 seconds left to act
callu364 bets $2
jmk2426 raises to $4
DoctorSuckout calls $4
callu364 folds
*** TURN *** [Qc Qh Th] [4h]
DoctorSuckout checks
jmk2426 bets $16.75
DoctorSuckout calls $16.75
*** RIVER *** [Qc Qh Th 4h] [4s]
DoctorSuckout checks
jmk2426 has 15 seconds left to act
jmk2426 checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
jmk2426 shows [8s Ac] two pair, Queens and Fours
DoctorSuckout shows [Qs Qd] four of a kind, Queens
DoctorSuckout wins the pot ($47.75) with four of a kind, Queens
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $50.25 | Rake $2.50
Board: [Qc Qh Th 4h 4s]
Seat 1: ZManChoo didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 2: jmk2426 showed [8s Ac] and lost with two pair, Queens and Fours
Seat 3: LoveChips1 (button) didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 4: tiaolong66 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: mi1n9uh60s is sitting out
Seat 6: outburrst (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: DoctorSuckout showed [Qs Qd] and won ($47.75) with four of a kind, Queens
Seat 8: URA Donkeyhoe didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 9: callu364 folded on the Flop

“How are you? Please email me your contacts! I have a question. . . (random website address)”

Oh, of course, random spambot, let me put that list together for you right away! Should I include all of my work email addresses too?

I have not been accepted as a friend by the one person, and the other person has yet to write me back.

However, this could possibly be due to the fact that not everyone is as completely addicted to email and the internet in general as I am. People don’t check their email every day, or every week for that matter. (That really really boggles my mind. Why wouldn’t you want to check your email? To me it’s like not checking your physical mailbox for snail mail. Don’t you want to see if you’ve gotten anything? And email is generally so much more fun than snail mail!)

Or, they think I’m creepy.

Or, which would hurt a lot more, they don’t remember me. . .