Scientists say the problem is the Sun is literally getting too hot.
The core temperature of the Sun is normally 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. But in recent years it's climbed to an alarming 49 million degrees, says Dr. Van der Meer, leader of a team of Amsterdam-based space scientists who've been tracking the changes in the Sun.
Hrm. Those of us cursed to live in Florida could have told you that. I mean, shit, it's already like we live on the surface of the sun and if it gets much hotter, I imagine it will go boom. *nods* Not like we'll notice. I think we'll be a little busy being, well, dead.
Oh yeah. The other day when I was locked out of my friend Rand's house *nervous laugh* I took some pics and put them together in a themed collection. Colors of a Florida Home Some interesting things there. :)
Oh goody. A Friday Five about shoes. *I love shoes*
1. What size shoe do you wear? Women's 6.5 - nice, small feet. I love it! I often can try on the display shoe. Weee!
2. How many pairs of shoes do you own? Er...I don't know. Maybe...two dozen or so. About 10 pairs in sem-active rotation and 4 in active rotation.
3. What type of shoe do you prefer (boots, sneakers, pumps, etc.)? Hrm. Sandals are great here in FL where you can wear them like 9 months out of the year. Sneakers always. My shoe preference has everything to do with my mood and clothing.
4. Describe your favorite pair of shoes. Why are they your favorite? Just one? lol One of my favorites right now is a pair of steel grey, leather bowling shoe looking Keds. You can see them here
5. What's the most you've spent on one pair of shoes? Sneakers tend to run obscene amounts of money but I have them for like a year at a time. Most are between $50-100. Everything else I tend to Payless or sale, or otherwise find on the cheap.
Stupid ezboard is down again for the second consecutive day. Yesterday the message stated they were down for a few hours, but back up on a temp system (which was so slow it wouldn't load on a cable modem), then it went down completely and was supposed to be back up by 3 - no wait, then 4am PDT. (which is three hours behind me). So I gave up and went to bed. Today I log on and not only is it not back up, but now the ETA of coming back is 8pm PDT! This means I won't even be able to think about getting online until about 11pm my time. ARG.
Had an interesting day today. My friend Rand picked me up on his lunch hour to take me back over to his place. See, I had been doing some database work for his mom, getting her contacts set up in Act instead of on paper. Well, the database is done, but the software needed installing on her machine and her preferences set up and printer settings configured, etc. Basically make it compeltely ready for her to use. This is great in theory. Just didn't work out that way.
First, it crashed the pc at 80% installation. Oh dear. Well, it's Windows, so...eh, this is par for the course, I'll just hardboot it (it froze like a MF) and start it again. Which I did. But it wouldn't finish the install. So I rebooted again and started it up a third time. Ok, looks good.
Meanwhile, one of the cats is whinning to be let out into the pool area. Mkay, I think, this will take a few anyway, I'll grab my digital cam and go out back and take some pics (she has a beautiful garden and yard). Yeah well apparently, the door now locks itself behind you. I didn't know that. So I'm outside, taking pics, sweating because I'm in a pair of jean and it's 90 degrees out (no really, it's still Summer in Florida) and I'm finally like, ok, dying of thirst and heat, I'm going back inside. That's about the time I discovered I was locked out. Ahem.
So I walk around to the front of the house and approach the neighbor across the street. I know Rand knows them so I figure I'll ask to use their phone. Excuse me, I say. I'm not as much an idiot as I look, but I seem to have locked myself out. Can I borrow your phone? Few blinks and weird stares and they bring me the phone. I call Rand and luckily it's about 5pm, so he can come straight back over and be there in about 15 minutes. I thank them and head back into the pool area to swelter and wait. (go me. Feeling really genius today)
Well, he gets home and of course, lets me back in. Then we tackle the Act! problem. About four more tries and assorted error messages later, we can neither install, run, nor uninstall the software. Joy of joys. He says he'll try upgrading her OS from Win98 to XP or something, hoping that fixes whatever's screwed up with the software working. (something he'll have to do later). Meanwhile, he has soccer to go play so I hop on his pc - with cable modem - and settle in to surf a bit. Turns out, ezboard is down. And has been for hours. Arg. So. I'm by myself. Cable modem. Time to catch up on my forums. And technical errors that took down their site. *sighs*
So, to sum up. Software I came over to set up wouldn't work. I got locked out in the afternoon heat in jeans and the thing I wanted to do while getting the rare chance to be on broadband was down. Just wasn't my day, hu?
On the up side of things, I did get home in time to see West Wing, so the day was not completely shot. :) Although, ezboard is down again so despite the fact I logged on to catch up now like I wanted to earlier, I still can't. Just one of those days. *lol*
Hope yours was less badly scripted then mine. :) ttfn
Well, there's certainly no shortage of blonds when it comes to takers of this fictional story.
Toronto — It's almost an irresistible story for journalists: the World Health Organization publishes a study predicting the gene responsible for natural blond hair will be extinct by the year 2202.
And a number of news organizations around the world took the bait late last week, including the extensive and respected BBC News Web site.
There was just one problem. The WHO neither commissioned nor published any research on the future of the blond gene. Nor can the organization find a shred of proof that anyone else did last week either.
Doh. There's the infamous fact-checking you get with the news nowadays. Comforting isn't it?
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Me? I've been up to, well. Nothing really. So much nothing in fact, I've had nothing to write about. Slacker me, eh? Though I feel lately like things keep breaking away...falling away from me. Like I'm losing so many things as they crumble. But it's like it's the world itself that's breaking apart...not anything in particular. I don't know. Just me being depressed again I guess. (or, seemingly depressed as always more like) Blah.
I have a psycho love for Monsters, Inc. Two of my friends bought it (but I haven't been able to yet) and my Love bought me the Sulley stuffed animal for our anniversary (who follows me everywhere and I hug pretty much continuously) And I have a crazy love for saying, "mikewazosky!" just like Boo all the time, anywhere I am. (I was in the store this evening and they had a display for the movie and I yelled out "mikewazosky!" and the clerk looked at me funny and laughed. *shrugs* What can I say, it's damned cute and you should go out and buy it. Man I love Pixar.
Ok, so, that's it. I'm around. Just not posting here much. *shrugs* not much to post about. Good night and ttfn.
I did not sleep last night. Blah. One of those nights where you lay there, awake enough to know you're not doing what you want to be doing (sleeping!) but not really awake enough to do anything productive either. That really, really frustrating quasi-awakness that's utterly unrestful and a painfully slow way to pass the night. (especially when you need to be up early the next day as seems always the case) I managed to sleep about an hour and a half total. Sucked. Laying there, suddenly realizing I'm awake. ARG.
The early waking today was because I needed to get my items out of storage. I paid off the storage unit (that had be running me about $150/month since April 2001) and had to get out by Sept. 30th. Well screw them, my mom rented me a U-haul and it's out and in my living room now. Of course, I now face the joy-joy task of going through it all and figuring out what the hell to do with it so I can get my living room back as quickly as possible. Not to mention figure out what to do with my couch since the plans to put it in the second bedroom (our "gaming room") is so not going to work because it's too damned big to get in there. (it's a tiny hallway further encombered by a sharp and narrow 90 degree turn) There's just no way. Hell, we barely got it in the door. (thanks for your help as always with the manly moving stuff Rand!) So....now we have two couches (that don't exactly match each other - one being a burnished yellowish color {hard to describe that it doesn't sound ugly, which it's not} and the other a dark tan with colored stiching cloth one) and a living room designed for, well, one.
Ever sit and swear you hear music like from another room even though you know the minute you get up to go look for it there of course won't be any? Hate that. It's distracting me at the moment actually though I know the tv is off in the living room. Oh well.
Anyway, so fun week. Get more unpacking to look forward to. Though I'm very happy to finally have my stuff back. Weeee! Stuff. (and it's MINE to boot!) Erm. Ok, that's about it, I'm beat and babbling. *snarf* Like there's a new thing for me! lol
**reminder to everyone, I can get my email IN, but damned verizon is blocking my smpt OUT so I can't reply to any emails. Blarg.***
