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Spent an hour trying to deal with this:

Only to get frustrated with the fact that it refuses to go in to “Disk Mode” so that I can wipe it’s little brain and make it work again. Alas– bad Stoli.

Moved on… A came home and she and I went to town on the yard trying to rid it of dandelions (serious roots on those motherfuckers) and bring this Xmas-past’s “bush tree” back to life. In digging out a spot for the bush tree, we managed to find not one… not two… but seven large chunks of granite:

Feeling a bit (more?) satisfied, we moved along to grilling and Bloody Marys…

Following that, A hit up the neuro-anatomy studying and I went back to work on trying to figure out how to resurrect the comatose ‘pod. Turns out there’s a diagnostic mode (which is did respond to) and therein lies a hard drive scan utility:

…which is pretty much where it’s been since then. Spent an hour reading the thorough Ars Technica review of X.4 and after that unplugged the pod from power to write this and let it run itself down.

Now the debate: Do I crack that bad boy open and see if I can’t monkey it myself? Do I contact Apple for a repair? If the rumors line up with the facts, then that would seem (to me at least) to be foolish at best.

Thoughts? Resources? Anyone have a starting point for me? B/c I’m quickly running out of them…

currently playing: the quiet whine of a 1.8″ Toshiba hard drive on its last leg?

Weighing in on a barometric headache… (ugh) Far from a spectacular weekend, it’s graciously been a distance from catastrophic, too.

A & I caught the HHGTTG movie — which was a good adaptation. Not the world’s best cinema but a good laugh with some highlight moments. I didn’t feel ripped off and definitely left w/ a smile.

Yesterday started off w/ early clear skies which quickly grayed over and dumped. But the LL Bean outlet store in Lebanon, NH gave us a couple of nice scores to make up for it.

The rest of the weekend has been rainy and dull. Stoli was 99% psycho this morning and somehow managed to send my ‘pod flying. Now it doesn’t seem to want to come to life and when it does, it gives the ill “/!\” folder icon which just seems to be bad news the whole way around. So between A’s ‘pod crapping out and now this, I’m doing some slight venting.

On the other hand, some decent brainstorming on my continued writing projects has gone well. I’ll take whatever ideas I can get these days. Esp. when they feel like good ones.

Now if I can stop with all the vague and vaguely jungle-themed dreams and get some rest, we might be in business.

currently playing: Psykosonik “The Breathing Room”

The Lying Scumbag Method
(Last Played is not in the last 7 days and Play Count is greater than 10; limit to 10 songs selected by least recently played)

1. KMFDM “Revolution II”
2. Otis Redding “Free Me”
3. Otis Redding “Look At That Girl”
4. Texture “Red Line’s Theme”
5. Radiohead “Planet Telex”
6. Radiohead “Where I End And You Begin”
7. Sphere “Gravi-Tech”
8. Motion Blue “In Motion”
9. Lunatic Calm “The Sound”
10. Nitzer Ebb “Join In The Chant”

My #include <beer.h> action shot made it on to ThinkGeek.com!

/chuffed