brain fog! how did july 1st sneak up so quick?

amidst all the traveling, wedding-thinking-about, work, and running... i totally let something super important slip my mind!

oh me oh my!!! i'm so embarrased.

tomorrow is july 1...
and that means...

TOUR DE FRANCE TIME!!!

and, to start the tour with excitement (negative), several riders were sent home due to being linked to drugs. ugh.

>> doping scandals throw tour de france into chaos

we'll miss you, Basso, Ullrich, Mancebo, Beloki... go clean yourselves up and get back on the damn bike! why do you need drugs when Armstrong is retired, anyways?

i wanna go home.

i hate airports.

do i hear bells ringing in my ears?

as i wrote in an email to my old boat from crew... i just need to come right out and announce something -- because i'm terrible at subtlety!

(case in point, last time i hinted at news on this blog everyone thought i was pregnant. but all i was announcing was the end of my vegetarianism...)

ready?

conor and i got engaged on monday!

yay!

beached SUV

this is hilarious. i hear its at 18th and Connecticut.

two years old!

conor and i are celebrating our 2 year anniversary today!

it's a milestone in both our relationship-lives... although i've had on/off relationships that dragged on for over 2 years, my previously-longest continuous relationship was just a week shy of the big T-W-O. so today's an exciting day.

from here on out, we're both treading in new water!

fun stuff. yay for us!

'puter update

its friday morning and i'm just now able to start working on my new computer. apparently running a disk check on my old drive for over 18 hours did squat. the old one is just toast. no, Toast. with a capital T.

case in point, i am posting a picture taken when we tried booting off it again, on wednesday -- so you can see what a sense of humor the possessed machine had... click on it to see the full monitor.



who knew it had a blinking purple ascii smiley soul?

the devil.
that's who knew -- that computer was his techno-spawn.

sometimes computers just get bored of existence

the title of this post is a quote by one of my ever-so-wise engineers.

he was referring to my main work machine, which apparently fried itself on friday. who else can boast about a self-frying computer? thats better than a self-cleaning oven, right?

here's the verdict from my IT "doctor" who has been in major surgery with it since 11 am on friday:

"Well, since reseating everything didn't seem to do anything, I'm almost certain a combination of time, dust bunnies, possible salt buildup from our salty air, the position they were leaning against the video card and [mother board] finally caused a small arc and while not destroying everything did some major damage."

a so it was.

baby-megan-computer is scheduled for delivery sometime around 6pm this evening. i need a name for this new member of my work family, so feel free to offer suggestions.

us weekly fantasy league

my sisters have tried to get me to join their fantasy football league many times in the past year... and i think i joined it once, i have no idea how i did. i can't even remember if i actually joined it, thats how interested i was.

and same with a baseball fantasy league my friends out here in cali-forn-eye-aye formed once. i ranked somewhere near the bottom. i never traded any players or did anything interesting. they refused to invite me the next year.

all in all, i'm a really boring fantasy player.

i don't really care about the sports teams we bet on until its either super bowl sunday, the world series, or i'm physically at a game, eating a hot dog, and drinking a beer.

then i care.

but... this could change.

catfoo(d) sent me this article a while back from our beloved "sports guy"... and its brilliant. if he can make this happen, he will be a millionaire. case in point? me:

a) not only would i join the in a heartbeat and rally up my bookclub to play against me (they are huge celebrity whores)...

b) but i'd also buckle down and finally get that subscription to US weekly that i've been secretly coveting for the last year. (instead i just read it at the super market or manicurist as religiously as possible, which isn't that religiously considering how infrequently i go grocery shopping)

so all the sports guy needs to do is set up a bounty deal on subscriptions with US weekly initated from his site, and then add that to the membership fees for league... and he's a happy, wealthy man. i wish i'd thought of it myself. maybe he can hire me to do the website.

>> fantasy league for the females

(sorry, foo, just catching up on old emails now!!)

bottlenotes

this looks cool - its like netflix for wine lovers!

>> bottlenotes

though i would have to hope that their wine club selections are more expansive than their actual store, which isn't so huge. but i love the idea.